I am a femme in the way a bat is a vampire.

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I am a femme in the way a bat is a vampire.
saw this post and I was inspired to do my own version 🎀💕
femme in the way where I hold my friend’s hand when they’re talking about them going through a rough patch
femme in the way where I walk into a room in my prettiest dress and my curled hair with proudness even tho I know some ppl consider me to be too much
femme in the way I can stare at blooming trees or a bird searching for food for a long time and find so much joy in it
femme in the way where I truly wish everyone the best. Every person that has hurt me, every person that has ever crossed my path. Because first and foremost, that will keep me safe
femme in the way that I go mama bear if someone I care about is in trouble or sick. I will go through a lot to make sure they feel safe
femme in the way where I feel safe tapping into my femme and soft sides bc I know I will find a person in the queer community that will truly make me feel so safe
femme in the way where I proudly take space in male dominated spaces despite me having obvious different qualities than them. Whether that’s the weights section in the gym or at school with all the cishet tech bros
femme in the way where I will proudly gather the queer ppl in my school to form a LGBT+ community even tho I have no one to do it with and I’m scared shitless. But I know that there’s a possibility it will create queer friendships in my school’s science faculty, not only for me but for many other queers now and in the future 💕
this might be a long post but it's something very personal to me that I think a lot of my fellow lesbians will relate to
I've struggled with identifying as a lesbian for a long time, and a lot of it has had to do with my lack of involvement in the lesbian community and lack of lesbian/sapphic friendships
As a young teen (13 or so) I readily expressed my sexuality, shouting to anyone that i talked to that "I'm a lesbian!"
But I was met with confused faces, questions like "how do you know? don't you want to figure yourself out and experiment first? well, maybe you just aren't interested in any of the boys at your school?"
I started dressing more masculine, accepting that if I was going to be a lesbian I had to look and dress the way the straight cis-hetero people around me expected me to. This only lead to more ostracization, and a disconnect from how I really wanted to present myself
In high-school, I stopped identifying as a lesbian, started answering questions about my sexuality with a shrug and a flippant comment. I still dressed more masculine than most girls my age, but because I had ingrained a belief in my mind that I wasn't "good enough", "thin enough", or "pretty enough" to be feminine in the eyes of the heteropatriarchy. That my interests weren't "girly enough". That women wouldn't be attracted to me anyway.
I lied to myself and the people around me, "yeah actually I am attracted to men", and "well I want kids eventually so I'll have to marry a man"
By college I was well adapted to pretending to be interested in men, bolstered by the fact almost all of my friends were.
but things changed around the time I turned 19. I read books like stone butch blues, learned what a "femme" was. I took in information greedily, a sense of familiarity and "rightness" began to grow roots in me.
The more I read and interacted with the lesbian community, the more I recognized myself. That the heteropatriarchal concepts of femininity I had been so scared of were not the only ways to express femininity.
I began recognizing myself more and more as I started dressing the way I wished I could have in high-school, feminine in the eyes of lesbians, feminine in the way not recognized by cis hetero people
Now, shortly after I've turned 21, I've made a promise to myself not to turn away from my sexuality or my identity as a femme lesbian because of my own internalized shame or because of external pressure
There's no point in being afraid how I am perceived, because those who truly know and love me will accept me as I am
there are so many ways to be femme & all too often people focus exclusively on our clothes/makeup/presentation not what femme feels like to us
💕 my flavor of femme is old fashioned old school, soft & warm, the smell of fresh baked cookies, quiet sunsets on Lake Superior, a kitchen where i kiss my butch every morning & feed my family every night, pinky promises, wild strawberries, pretty pink flowers, & feeling like you’re finally home 💕
femmes, show (and tell if you want!) what your femme identity feels like to you or what it means to you. i want everyone to see how varied and wonderful our community is
im gonna tag any femme who sees this! tag your favorite femmes too 🩷
Love this! I’m a girl who tends to lean towards femme for femme in my relationships. Femme for me means reclaiming my femininity outside of the patriarchal sphere of influence. For me being femme is loving my body and its curves and shape and my soft, emotional nature. I want to be able to find the woman of my dreams and make every day special for her by making her feel seen and understood. For me being femme is being creative. Of using my talents to express my feminine spirit no matter how I choose to dress that day. Femme is so much more than clothes. It’s a whole way of being. 💗
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