Posted on October 28, 2008 by sublimefemme
Are high femmes queen bees? If you crown yourself “high femme,” are you implicitly suggesting that others are “low?” Nikki from give me space (to rock) and, more recently, buddhistfemme have asserted that “high femme” suggests a heirarchical ranking of femme that’s fundamentally elitist. This may seem like an unavoidable conclusion, particularly in today’s competitive and status-obsessed [...]
Filed under: Lesbian & Queer Genders, Queer Femininity | Tagged: capitalism, class, gender galaxy, high femme as nonlinear process, ranking queer femininities | 11 Comments »
Posted on September 4, 2008 by sublimefemme
Long, long ago in a gender galaxy far, far away…
…I was butch!
I know what you’re thinking: how could your favorite ravishing femme queer theorist–who is typing these words with perfectly manicured red nails–have ever been butch? But it’s really true, my lovelies, I swear. I had Hilary Swank’s haircut in Boys Don’t Cry, [...]
Filed under: Femme Icons, Lesbian & Queer Genders, Queer Femininity | Tagged: Amber Hollibaugh, Beauty, butch, butch/femme, camp, coming out, femme, gender galaxy, gender oppression, GenderPAC, glamour, Greta Garbo, Joan Nestle, John Waters, Leslie Feinberg, Marlene Dietrich, Mercedes de Acosta, Oscar Wilde, queer aesthetics, queer femininity, Riki Wilchins, Stone Butch Blues, Susie Bright, Tallulah Bankhead, The Femme Archive, The Femme Guide | 9 Comments »
