Attack of the Glamazons
June 23rd, 2008 maggie
Hey! Did you know that “glamorous lesbians” is “not an oxymoron”? Thank the powers that be that we have the Village Voice to teach us about this phenomenon! This popped up thanks to my google alert and my Femme* Roommate and I immediately started reading it and sarcastically commenting on it.
I am so sick of pieces like this that proclaim the next trend in gender or queerness. Femme is in, femme is out, butch is out, “bois” are in, “futch” is in, butch-femme is history, butch-femme is the hot new trend, oh fuck, I give up. What happened to self-definition? Can we please have a real conversation about our lives, our communities, our genders without making up fake trends that jump all over people’s identities and lives? Read the rest of this entry »
