Even across queer communities, we, too, are often...

Even across queer communities, we, too, are often convinced that relying on masculinity is the only way to be commanding and threatening in the face of the powers we seek to challenge. [T]he femme identity is always a radical one, no matter who dons it, because it works to command and threaten without reifying male status or masculinist hierarchies. It challenges power on the terms which power most fears, and refuses to forfeit any of its own desires, tendencies or passions in the process.

We Are All Subversives: Femme Strength and Queer Solidarity | RADICAL FAGGOT

Exploring queer femme identities today. Feeling my thoughts changing.

08/26/12 at 8:46pm

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