femme on a mission

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A new PL for today! (Catch up on all the others here.) Who: Elly Jackson, a.k.a La Roux Why she’s beautiful inside and out: La Roux is one half of a British recording duo that makes really fun dance songs, like “Bulletproof” and “I’m Not Your Toy.” One of her hits, called “Quicksand,” has some […]

The first love of my life was books. I was pretty young (three or four) when my older sister first started learning how to read, but I was fascinated by the way little symbols on a page could turn into sounds, then words, then ideas. I would gobble up her Hooked-on-Phonics readers, and those little […]

Today the Freedom to Marry organization launched an online lobby to support the marriage equality bill that will soon arrive on the desks of Rhode Island Legislators. For any of you with a Rhode Island address, please follow this link and take a minute to send along a letter. There’s even a form letter you can […]

The old “lesbian sleeps with a man trick”? Not cool.

Beth Ditto: “I think ‘cool’ is probably the dumbest word in the world. I think the idea of being ‘cool’ is kind of ridiculous.. I think being nice is the coolest thing you can do.”

In heteronormative society, is femme the “acceptable” type of lesbian? If there is any aspect of my lesbian identity that my parents are happy about, it’s the fact that I am femme (not that they are aware of that word). Their main concern upon my coming out was that I wouldn’t start “dressing like a […]

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Amber: “I’d rather go down for doing what’s right, then rise for doing what’s wrong.”

Y’all – I’ve been having troubles with the dictionary. It all started when I was researching for the FAQ page. I wanted to know just how exactly “femme” is defined in our language, so I went right to the source – the Oxford English Dictionary. Now, as an English major, I’ve had many a run-in […]

Being feminine doesn’t feel so natural when I’m plucking my eyebrows, shaving my legs, styling my hair, putting on make-up and squeezing into high heels.

I’d like to do a post of great social and political import, via the great Janis Joplin. This is to address the age-old question: COMFORTABLE SHOES or PRETTY SHOES??? If anyone has a pair of those elusive shoes that meet both criteria, please let me know. I’ve only met one such pair in my lifetime […]

Imagine you are walking down the street. You pass men and women in business suits, teenage babysitters with toddlers, girls running by in track suits, men taking their dogs for a walk. Each of these people are making assumptions about you, just as you are making assumptions about them, in an attempt to satisfy the […]

Chely: “I had to do this. I had to step forward.”

Last week I auditioned to become a part of a collaborative youtube channel that focuses on LGBT issues.  The group is known as “Your Fruit Loops” and can be found here.  Every week, each of the members weighs in on a particular topic; for example, last week’s theme was “Do you believe in a gay […]