September Femme Writing Prompt!
Femme feels like…. Write about what femme as a gender or expression feels like to you. This could be how it literally feels, or something more metaphorical…
Author Archive
Rebel girl, Rebel girl, Rebel girl you are the inspiration to my femme gender
When I first began thinking about who I would write about as a femme role model or inspiration I immediately thought of the great femme authors: Dorothy Allison, Joan Nestle, Amber Hollibaugh who gave words and truth and metaphor to my femme gender, to my femme desires. I was going to write about how finding [...]
Trust Your Love…
Last night while walking hand in hand with my partner through the west village we saw the most handsome of butch/femme couples. They were easily in there 80’s and out on an evening stroll through the neighborhood. I couldn’t look away. There love of each other radiated on the hot night and pounded into the [...]
August Femmes Guide Prompt
Sorry for the delay in getting August’s Femmes Guide prompt posted! Think about the role models (friends, family, celebrities etc. ) for your femme identity, who inspires you, who have you modeled your gender expression or style after? Who did you look to as inspiration when you were coming out as femme? Who do you [...]
Femmepop !
I’m getting ready to head out to Baltimore’s Red Emma bookstore for the Baltimore leg of the touring I’m doing with my anthology Kicked Out but before I hit the road I wanted to get up a post about Femmepop this great musician who I just recently discovered. Her songs are super fun and very [...]
Femme friends are the desserts of my world
I hadn’t intended to take so long to write my blog post about what femme community means to me, but it’s been a busy month and at points time has just gotten away from me. Also, if I am going to be honest I’d have to say that when I wrote this months writing prompt [...]
Sunday Morning Cartoons!
i have a whole bunch of blog posts that I’m working on getting finished including some great books and music I want to share with all of you, and of course my response to this months Femmes Guide Writing Prompt (I’m actually working on writing that this morning) but I wanted to share a little [...]
July Femme Prompt
Talk about your relationship to femme community. What does it mean to you? What does it look like? How has it it changed your life? How have you struggled with it? What are your dreams for what it could be?
being out & visible
So it might not come to much of a surprise to folks but I’m out, like really out. Out as queer, out as femme, out as leather, and transgender, and all manner of other lovely identities along the spectrum of queerness. I’m also really privileged in that even as a femme it’s not all that [...]
The beauty of femme
This afternoon I found a fantastic new article about femme identity that was posted over at Xtra this week. The whole piece is well worth the read, this is my favorite quote “It’s like femmes have their own weather systems in which they create lightning at will and decide where it lands.”