Joan Nestle & Femme Herstory

Do you know my Femme Icon, Joan Nestle–working-class Jewish lesbian activist, writer, teacher and founder of the Lesbian Herstory Archives? If not, you should! Below you’ll find a little about Joan’s life and work from “The Foyer,” which is the welcome page of her fantastic website, At-Home with Joan, where you can learn more about [...]

What Makes (Me) a Femme

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, [...]

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