another quote…
May 9th, 2008 Sassafras
Last week I was rereading S/he and this week i got to thinking of one of my favorite quotes ever about femmes and queer femininity. It’s from the anthology “Brazen Femme: Queering Femininity” which was edited by Chloe Brushwood Rose and Anna Camilleri
“Femme might be describd as ‘femininity gone wrong’ - bitch, slut, nag, whore, cougar, dyke, or brazen hussy. Femme is the trappings of femininity gone awry, gone to town, gone to the dogs. Femininity is a demand placed on female bodies and femme is the danger of a body read female or inappropriately feminine. We are not good girls- perhaps we are not girls at all.”
