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 »
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February 4th, 2008 maggie
This is an angry piece I started writing about on a month before our last show. It’s still a work in progress. This piece is hard for me to figure out because I think my anger and frustration are legit, and I need to express those feelings, but I have a lot of misgivings about this because I don’t want people to think I’m generalizing. As always, this is just my experience, I’m obviously not speaking for all femmes and it’s not meant to be an indictment of the whole community. It’s just that there are a lot of people out there who need to be schooled on femmes.
Don’t ignore me. Look me in the eye when we’re introduced. Shake my hand without squeezing it like crazy to show how tough you are. Yes, you probably have more upper body strength than me. Many people do. Good for you. Read the rest of this entry »
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