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20FEMME is shaping up to be an incredible year, and I’m really excited for the Femme Conference. The first one totally changed my life. I did a whole podcast episode about it, if you want to hear all about the 2008 conference. Download Episode 5: Femme Sharks.
Also, you can follow the Femme Collective on Twitter, @femmecollective. I’m doing the tweets.
Here’s the call for proposals–I’m hoping that a lot of you can make it out, it’s going to be incredible!
For those of you who have read my earlier posts griping about publishers who claim to publish LGBT and who do indeed provide their readers with the G … but rarely if ever any LBor T … I am finished complaining. At least for now.
Why?
Because I finally found a publisher willing to take a [...]
This is not a new post, but I believe it is relevant to the discussion here. Take a look at my post from November…
I’m becoming a different kind of lesbian and a different kind of femme, and it has all been surprising.
I quit shaving my legs about 2 months ago.
I’m becoming the type of [...]
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 [...]
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.
Lifted here from Sinclair, so many of you have probably already seen it, but just in case…
Sinclair says: “I’m told she already has about half of her subjects, but needs more, and that the majority of the women she’s interviewed are in their 50s and 60s. C’mon, twenty- and thirtysomethings, represent!”
RESEARCHER LOOKING FOR LESBIAN AND [...]
Ok so a couple of blogs ago I mentioned how I was nesting a little bit and how a big part of that is that my partner and I were in the process of trying to buy an apartment. I didn’t talk much about it at the time because things were still VERY up in [...]
I decided to start challenging the notion that I had to save my lingerie for occasional and brief visits from suitors** and wear it around the house for my own benefit. Now, I’m not really talking about crotchless nothings or underwear that wiggles down as soon as you walk two steps, I’m taking cute camisoles with a little bit of support in them (Target $15.99), vintage lingerie, frilly robes and the like. I have to say, it’s totally revolutionized how I feel at home.
i’ve been having a hard time writing about femme stuff lately. actually, i’ve just been having a hard time writing in general. something about Major Life Changes that make me feel so full of words and totally incapable of putting them together in a way that’s worth much to myself.
i’ve been wanting to write about [...]
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