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 [...]
If I could live in an ideal world, there wouldn’t be a need to identify oneself with either gender (male or female). This is a topic that is oftentimes confusing to me. I am happy with my biological female anatomy for the most part. When I was little, I thought that I wanted to be [...]
Is there a female is here? I froze. I shouldn’t have answered. I should have ignored it. I should have ripped the guy a new one. Hindsight is 20-20. Last Friday, my best friend and I went shopping. We’ve sworn to return to out old gym-junkie habits, and seeing as how that means 5 days [...]
I was never a tomboy. I liked glittery puffpaint and cheap-smelling lipgloss and would stare for hours into the mirror, coming my hair into the tightest, smoothest ponytail possible. I had fat compacts of candy-colored eye shadow and a giant caboodle, in which I collected ugly shades of nail polish as they went on sale [...]
Since the wife and I bought a strap on in March of 07 I have wondered what it would feel like to pack. I’ve been ashamed of it, felt weird about it, been embarrassed, etc. Finally last night I told the wife( she’d been reading an article for her queer studies class about it). She [...]
