Ironically I hadn’t yet seen Maggies’s post about the homophobic Massresistance’s postings about pride, but found myself there on my own looking at their pictures of Boston pride and their *special* commentary about our community.  While doing that, I burst out laughing in the middle of my office when I came to the above picture.  It was too great not to do a screen capture of to share with all of you here.  After making offensive comments about drag queens, leather folks and others all these folks could come up with to say was that the group of queer femmes were “a strange group of women.”

It was especially interesting to me to find this picture because this was also a week where I got to spend some time talking about the complexities of identity with various folks.  For example, at one point i found myself trying to articulate why i don’t feel like an ally to the trans community—i spent several years living as an FTM, I consider femme to be a genderqueer identity existing outside of the boundaries of “male” or “female.”  I’m not an ally, I still consider myself part of that community. It’s sometimes weird for me to remember that many folks don’t see “femme” as a gender identity, presentation, and performance, nor do they recognize the possibility that (depending on the femme in question) could be existing outside of the gender binary.  I’m so surprised by this because I can’t imagine any binary capable of containing femme.

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