I Am Femslash - IggityWrites
This post is part of Femslash Revolution’s I Am Femslash series, sharing voices of F/F creators from all walks of life. The views represented within are those of the author only.
There were about five days of me floundering about what to write. I had no idea where to start or even really what to talk about. But I started crying as soon as an article crossed my dash about Chyler Leigh and the Coming Out Story that her character is going through on The CW’s Supergirl. To be honest, I’m still on edge ever since Code 307, but I think most people are.
I never really realized that I was “starved” for WLW story lines until I actually figured out my sexual and romantic preferences (and later on, my gender identity, but that’s another story). I spent twenty some years thinking that I was straight and a girl, and I never really saw how little representation WLW get. If I had been introduced to it earlier, would I have realized it about myself sooner?
Writing for “femslash” is still new to me. When I first started out, I was writing fanfiction for Hermione Granger and Ronald Weasley in the Harry Potter fandom. I was jumping on media that had WLW or even anything with a queer relationship in. It wasn’t until I found Avatar: Legend of Korra that I really felt like writing again. Of course, it was because of Avatar Korra and Asami Sato walking hand in hand into a spirit portal for a vacation ‘just the two of [them]’ that really made me realize exactly how starved I was. I still cry so many happy tears just whenever I think about the music, let alone actually watching it. They were like, The Connection and The Realization that, yeah, we’re progressing, but we have so long to go, not just in media, but in the world. We’re still taking steps towards normalizing all types of relationships in media, and once we bury the BYG trope, we’re going to be able to start making confident leaps instead. It was about 20 years ago when the first openly lesbian couple was televised, and it’s not great progress by a stretch, but it’s definitely progress. We just need to keep going.
About Me: Heya, I’m Sam. I’m 25, none gender with left boy, they/him pronouns. You can find me on tumblr under iggity or iggitywrites, and on AO3 under Iggity as well!