December 20th, 2007 maggie
This is me and Jess, one of my best friends, without whom there wouldn’t have been a Femme Show because I would have gone crazy and run away to Vermont to start a sheep farm instead. This morning she came over for breakfast and helped me try on my dress for New Year’s Eve and make brownies for my ballet students and we decided to record our conversation and make it into a blog entry.
Maggie: If you want to call yourself butch I think you should do that and be butch the way you are and still wear eyeliner and tube tops. I’m trying to convince people that you don’t have to label, but if you want to claim butch or femme you should do that and make space for yourself to be butch or femme in your own way.
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December 20th, 2007 maggie
Gold rush brownies, AKA Kind-you-makes
1 Sleeve graham crackers
1 can sweetened condensed milk
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December 10th, 2007 maggie
…which is exactly how we like it here at the Femme Show. This is an excellent, poetic piece.
Don’t underestimate me, and don’t assume you know what you’re dealing with. Read the rest of this entry »
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December 4th, 2007 maggie
This story, “The Lesbian Bride’s Handbook” from New York Magazine is definitely a mixed bag – Ariel Levy wants to have a counter-cultural “Party about Love” instead of a wedding but it sounds pretty upscale to me. But I don’t read New York Magazine for thoughtful considerations of class and privilege. I read it for the clothes, the shopping, and insight into the ridiculous things rich people do, and Levy’s discussion of her wedding dress search is funny and well-told, something even femmes who don’t shop at Caroline Herrera might relate to. Read the rest of this entry »
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December 2nd, 2007 maggie
“I feel sometimes that, by being less visible, I’m not pulling my weight, as if there were a finite amount of anti-queer fucked-upness in the world and if I don’t take my share someone else, a stranger or friend or neighbor or lover, is going have to take my share too.” Read the rest of this entry »
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