Hello Beautiful People!
On this lovely Saturday morning I'd like to inform you of another fun opportunity coming up this fall:
The Femme Show: 9 Lives!
You're probably thinking to yourself,
"Femme show...Femme show, sounds familiar but Kyle, why don't you remind me what that is"
Sure thing Friend!
The Femme Show is:
"The Femme Show is a Boston, MA based group of queer performers who bring deep, personal explorations of queer and subversive femininity and fem/femme identity to the stage in a fun, eclectic variety show. This is queer art for queer people: challenging, introspective, brazen, funny, sexy, and gritty but always powerful."
-- The Femme Show Website (http://www.thefemmeshow.com/about/)
Now you're saying, "Kyle, that sounds like a really copacetic show, I'd like to attend.
But wait, what the heck is a femme?"
Another good question!
In the same way there's no one way to define our communities, identities, or labels because they're up to an individual to decide that for themselves, there's no way singular way to define the Femme identity,
However, I can give a sort of brief description based on other folx interpretation of what femme means to them, and hopefully you can get an idea that way.
Is that okay??
1. "Not that anyone can ever be an authority on identity, but Bevin’s run down of what femme means to her is one of the most passionate and poignant descriptions I’ve ever read. For your enjoyment:
“Femme is a way of defining for me how I fit into my sexuality, but does not describe my gender.
Femme means my feminism and my femininity walk hand in hand.
Femme means I look how I want to look and not how someone tells me I should look to be perceived as queer. You’ll know I’m queer within about 20 seconds of talking to me.
Femme means I look how I want to look and not how someone tells me I should look because I am a woman. I am often far overdressed for everything I do, but when I look in the mirror and smile because I’m wearing a glittery necklace, feathers in my hair, lots of cleavage, that’s what matters."
--http://genderqueer.tumblr.com/post/858591037/what-is-femme
2." Femme to me: (which means only me, Emma, and not a general femme definition because femme in and of itself defies traditional labels of definition)
To me, being femme is about taking strength from femininity. My femininity is expressed through cupcake dresses, glitter boots, big hair, and pink nails. It is communicated through laughing eyes, sideways smiles, laughing too hard, and breaking hearts.
I am femme because it is who I am. I feel most beautiful when I am seen as queer. Queer and femme are not able to be seperated in my identity. They are the same.
It is also a political act. I am femme because I am told I shouldn’t be. I am femme when it is difficult, erasing, and impossible. I am femme when no sees me as femme. Being femme is the most radical thing about me. Femme is home.
This is just what it means to me. It means something very different to my fellow femme sisters, brothers, friends. Everyone defines their home differently.
Mine just happens to be dressed up in gold glitter taffeta."
--http://femmadilemma.tumblr.com/whatfemmemeanstome
Femme can be this:
Or this:
Or this:
Or this:
Or this:
Or this:
Or this:
Or this:
Or this:
Or this:
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But being/identifying as femme, isn't just a style
Its a way of life.
To free yourself and be yourself through this type of expression. Anyone can be femme.
It is a self determined label.
You can't just assume someone is femme, they need to proclaim it for themselves if they choose to do so.
Femme Does Not mean you are a woman necessarily.
Your femme does not have to be anything like the pictures above.
It can look like one or a couple of the pictures above.
It can be all of the pictures above.
Femme comes in all different shapes, shades, and sizes.
To be femme means
To break free from the norms that say masculine is best.
I found myself when I realized that I am femme.
I stopped pretending to be someone I wasn't, and I became so much happier.
It is a brave act to be yourself.
Does that kind of clear things up?
So, back to the femme show.
Its a really fabulous show, I went for the first time last year.
There was burlesque and spoken word and story telling.
It was a darn good time so you know what?
You should come, here's the info:
Hope to see you there!!! ;D
