Archive for August, 2009
Alright femmes, i know my last blog about manicure trends went over really well! Lots of folks had opinions about it, and I think that the general consensus was that “no” paying money to get your nails done with intentional chips is not a look most femmes are into getting behind.
This morning I came across [...]
The other day I was leaving my usual teahouse after visiting with an old friend from my first high school. A couple of ladies struck up a conversation with me about the baby blanket I had been knitting. I explained that it was a gift to a young man whom I had originally met when [...]
I’m sorry I’ve been neglecting you for so long, my darling. It’s not something I meant to do, but there have been many changes in my life recently and, to be honest, I’m worried about the safeness of your space. This is something I need to remedy, but I haven’t had the drive [...]
Cross-posted from my review site. It’s super long, and there are lots and lots of screenshots (below the cut), apologies if it’s too long for anyone, but hopefully it’s at least easy to skim.
Hard Love & How to Fuck in High Heels is a two-for-the-price-of-one DVD from Jackie Strano and Shar Rednour by their [...]
Femme cannot be bought. Period. But the process of putting together a style that makes you feel comfortable in your skin does sometimes take some scrapiness and bargain shopping. I love bargain shopping–I call it Femme Hunting. Half the time the process of getting together an outfit is fun in and of itself.
So it is in this spirit of opening dialogue about Femme Hunting that I present my new blog series: Girl You Look Expensive****. I’ll find a fierce fat femme, interview her about her outfit and post it here. The idea is how you can look fierce and fashionable without spending a lot of money.
There are lots of different sorts of femmes, there are the birds in London I first learned about from the pages of Femmes of Power (such a good book, you can read my review of it here ), and the Fierce Femme Sharks, but now I present to you, The Femme Dinosaurs!
Last night I changed [...]
“In an attempt at visibility, I tattooed the word “femme” on my fingers. Alone in my kitchen, I traced the word with the charcoal end of a burnt rosemary stem and pricked the letters into my skin with tiny needles. I burned honey insense in honor of the femmes who have walked before me, those [...]