Catcalls and Subway Stares
January 1st, 2008 Sassafras
My name is Sassafras Lowrey and this is the first of what will become a regular blog posting on Fridays here at The Femme Show. I’m a high femme author and artist living in New York City with my partner, princess dog, and two puddle cats. I wasn’t always a femme. I hid from my femininity for a long time, trying to be butch, trying to be an FTM; needless to say that didn’t work too well for me. I came out as femme several years ago, and this blog will be talking a lot about my observations about what it means to walk through the world as a femme, specifically surrounding issues of passing and invisibility. Additionally, in this blog I’ll be talking about the ways in which I conceive of femme-femininity as a gender transgressive, perversion of traditional femininity, and positioned outside of the gender binary.
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