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A sea-weathered saint at St Hilda's Church in Hartlepool, England

inthemuckandthemire

“the dollhouse” 2007, heather benning

fuzzbby

Leonardo Devito.

pmamtraveller

the dirty sink paintings of Helen Appel

unstablecryptid

idk how many more "higher temperature is expected today"s i got left in me

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Mammal in a Sunday Dress, by Georgina M. Cox, 2026

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Death and Life, 1908, by Gustav Klimt

amnesiaguy

you can experience life altering devastating emotion and then your cat will throw up next to you & look at you like does this help ?

that-butch-archivist

"Femmes, through a reshaped femininity, exhibit an assertive sexuality that does not conflate desire with political practice. This very assertiveness can be politically empowering for femmes who like to play with the idea of power but are not disempowered by this play. For example, femmes with a bottom identification can renegotiate the dynamics of passivity/activity such that their feminine position is one of receiving pleasure rather than of being receptive solely for someone else's pleasure. What seems to be passivity is actually activity: she allows the butch to control her pleasure, but this control and the pleasure are exactly what the femme has demanded. For the bottom femme as for other varieties of femme sexuality--top, s/m, bisexual, or others--her own female sexual agency is paramount. The femme who plays with power provides a model that negotiates rather than ignores power differentials in relationships. [...] In many ways, femmes' chosen pleasures rather than politically prescribed pleasures are radically feminist."

-- "An Introduction to Sustaining Femme Gender," written by Laura Harris & Liz Crocker. (Emphasis in bold mine.)

pmamtraveller

Nun in red heels from Readers Digest magazine, c. 1967

mevil

a single caramel

mercymornsimpathizer

an even less exhaustive list of femme literature

since a made of a list of butch lit, I thought it would be nice to make a list of femme writing by (mostly) femme authors as well. books I've read myself in bold; take the rest with a grain of salt. I'd really appreciate additions, especially of fiction!

fiction:

dykette by jenny fran davis

perfume and pain by anna dorn

trash by dorothy allison

all the pretty girls by chandra mayor

femme confidential by nairne holtz

bottle rocket hearts by zoe whittall

honey mine by camille roy

nonfiction:

brazen femme: queering feminity ed chloe brushwood rose and anna camilleri

femme: feminists, lesbians, and bad girls ed laura harris and elizabeth crocker

the femme mystique ed leslea newman