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Visible: A Femmethology, the only two-volume anthology devoted to femme identity, calls the LGBTQI community on its prejudices and celebrates the diversity of individual femmes. Award-winning authors, spoken-word artists, and new voices come together to challenge conventional ideas of how disability, class, nationality, race, aesthetics, sexual orientation, gender identity and body type intersect with each contributor’s concrete notion of femmedom.

Visible: A Femmethology, Volume One by Jennifer Clare Burke

Visible: A Femmethology, Volume Two by Jennifer Clare Burke

The remaining Femmethology blog tour dates are as follows:

• 4/25. Femme Fluff
• 4/26. Weldable Cookies
• 4/27. The Verbosery
• 4/28. A Consuming Desire and Creative Xicana
• 4/29. Queercents
• 4/30. en|Gender

I asked the authors of  TLL to put their femininity into one sentence. Though almost impossible to do, below are the responses I received from the brave and the true!

From the The Lesbian Lifestyle Authors:

I am femme because No matter how hard I try I still cry at sad endings. – Janet Thornton

I am femme because I keep my hair long and use hair products (and my girlfriend THINKS I am). – p. Johanna

I am femme because I love long, billowy, flower-print dresses and high heel shoes. – Rebecca Raposo

I am femme because I am a woman, I love being a woman, and I love everything about women!  – Erica Wheaton

I am femme because I still hold onto the notion of fairy tales even though I hated the books as a kid – Kelly Leszczynski

I am femme because even in a pair of jeans and flat boots, people call me femme.  They say it’s my nature and gestures, it’s inherent – Chel

I am femme because everything about me responds like a woman from my emotions to my actions and my reactions, my expectations and my private thoughts – Debra Harrison

I am femme because I love my beauty in being a woman with curves. - Deepdiva

Feel free to add your sentence in the comments of this post!