Sublimefemme Tells All, No. 33

The key to successful gardening is herbaceous perennials.  Pink stilettos optional.

Elizabeth Taylor: In Memoriam

I wrote this post to honor the legendary Liz Taylor, my femme style icon. I think the first time I “got” femme was when I saw Elizabeth Taylor as Maggie in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.   Looking drop-dead gorgeous in her clingy slip, Maggie fights with Brick about their living arrangements and hisses, “I’m not living [...]

Bye Bye My Old Friends

You may have seen some TMZ photos of me checking into The Lady Gaga Don’t Ask Don’t Tell Drug and Alcohol Treatment Center, but I know you’re much too smart to believe everything you see in the tabloids.  Don’t worry, my darlings!  It’s not the drinking and pill popping that have me knocking on Gaga’s [...]

Get Looped, Dahling

“Daddy warned me about men and alcohol.  But he never warned me about women and cocaine.”  –Tallulah Bankhead Dahlings, send a video of yourself doing your best Tallulah Bankhead impersonation for a chance to win a trip for 2 to NY, tickets to see Looped on Broadway, a backstage visit with Valerie Harper, two nights [...]

Never Been a Bad Girl

Whether you’re nice or naughty, you’re going to like Sabrina Chap’s new video! From The Queerist: In a world of flash-in-the-pan acts and pop music saturation, it’s a joy to discover Sabrina Chap, a deeply talented musician who’s well grounded in songwriting and grand performanceship . When her songwriting career collided with a discovery of [...]

“Puh-leeeze don’t like me!”

Inspiration from the world of Miss Grace Jones…. “I do what I want and I’m satisfied with it, whether or not it pleases everybody….  Actually, there are certain people I definitely don’t want to please.  There are some people I’m like ‘Oh no, puh-leeeze don’t like me!’” “If you’re out there you’re vulnerable. People prefer [...]

Cowboy Kate: A Tribute

The visual impact of a Sam Haskins photograph can’t be beat. I love his cinematic sensibility, graphic edge, and cool, modern approach to the nude.   Haskins has been enormously influential in contemporary photography, especially fashion photography, since the 1960s.  Madonna and other artists have been appropriating his images for years (Madonna is especially fond of the Cowboy Kate look), which [...]

Top 10 Lesbian Style & Fashion Icons

I can’t say I agree with all their picks, but I’m happy to see Kate Moennig, Beth Ditto, kd lang, and Joan Jett on Autostraddle’s Top 10 Lesbian Style & Fashion Icons list.  I love that dapper kd talks about herself almost as a third gender while simultaneously owning her “womanly” body.  I’m not a Jackie Warner fan, but [...]

On Your Knees! It’s Miss Grace Jones

Who else could pull off gold eyebrows with so much ferocity but the incomparable Grace Jones?  I know, I know.  She scares you, right?  Frankly, I hope so.  While I have not been blessed with Miss Jones’s gift for provocation, l have nothing but admiration for her willingness to embody extremity of all kinds.  To me, her sculptural [...]

1950′s Bombshell or 1940′s Pin-Up?

Do you have glamorous karma?  Journey into the world of Old Hollywood and discover the classic film star you were in a past life.  The quiz 1950′s Bombshell or 1940′s Pin-Up? Which Classic Film Star Are You? will tell you all about your inner screen goddess.  And guess what?  It just so happens that I’m the reincarnation of one [...]