Comments on: when did you feel connected? http://www.thefemmeshow.com/blog/2008/07/18/when-did-you-feel-connected/ Celebrating Femme Identity Thu, 20 Nov 2008 09:02:15 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: freedomgirl http://www.thefemmeshow.com/blog/2008/07/18/when-did-you-feel-connected/#comment-186 freedomgirl Fri, 18 Jul 2008 17:41:30 +0000 http://www.thefemmeshow.com/blog/?p=164#comment-186 Femme is something I was only very dimly aware of until just this past spring (after being out for a decade). It was a revelation to me that there was a name for what I had been unconsciously embodying for so many years. I am so glad to have found a community of people who understand where I'm coming from. I always on some level resented being the type of lesbian that is 'acceptable' to the straight community, like I wasn't being out there or rebellious enough to be really accepted in the queer community. It's very empowering to be living in the Boston area, where being femme is definitely on the table as a topic of conversation. Femme is something I was only very dimly aware of until just this past spring (after being out for a decade). It was a revelation to me that there was a name for what I had been unconsciously embodying for so many years. I am so glad to have found a community of people who understand where I’m coming from.

I always on some level resented being the type of lesbian that is ‘acceptable’ to the straight community, like I wasn’t being out there or rebellious enough to be really accepted in the queer community. It’s very empowering to be living in the Boston area, where being femme is definitely on the table as a topic of conversation.

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