I can only control how I perceive myself, and I have learned that creating multiple names and alter egos can be very therapeutic. By Kenny Me “Hi, my name is…” While a simple sentence, I struggle with this introduction, because whatever name I utter defines who I will be to the other person moving forward....
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‘Women and Femmes’ Is Not As Inclusive As We Want It To Be
It needs to be understood that this fight isn’t about a “battle of the sexes” but about revolutionizing our understanding of gender structures. By Danny Reneè It’s no surprise, in an age where we spend so much time connecting with other people via text and images on screens, that language would have to quickly evolve...
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Five Femme-Presenting People Discuss The Power of Their Makeup
Too much or too little, makeup has long been a wonderful and difficult facet of our lives. If you know a femme-presenting person who wears makeup, it has likely been said to and about them that they: do not love themselves / are full of themselves / are doing too much / are fake / are false advertisement. If you...
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Six Queer BIPOC Voices in the Body Positive Movement
Body positivity, as a movement, was meant to give space to bodies that an oppressive society says are not worthy of love and acceptance. The body positive movement has a lot of problems—not in the general message that we all deserve the space to love our bodies as they are, but in representation. The movement...
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Women and Femmes Unite: A Structural and Political Analysis of Femininity
Women and femmes are not the same, but they are intertwined, and its exactly that mutual oppression and shared experience under patriarchy that has led activists today to identify “women and femmes” in their organizing spaces. [Editor’s Note: This analysis is being re-published with permission from B.B. Buchanan’s Medium page.] By B.B. Buchanan I need to start...
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These Five Womxn and Femmes of Color are Changing Electronic Music
These five DJs are pushing against the boundaries of the white supremacist, cishetero patriarchy. The idea of the DJ (short for disc jockey) first emerged sometime in the United States during the 1930’s or 40’s, and was originally used to describe radio personalities who introduced various phonograph records on air. However, the DJ as a...
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Fat, Black Femmes: Do Our Black Masculine Queens Love Us?
As fat, Black femmes: how can we navigate and decolonize the politics of desirability? By Tina Colleen Black queer women and femmes and female identify people (FIP), we are celebrating our natural melanin and manes more today than ever before. We demand equality, but have we truly broken free from European influences when we choose...
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Femme Podcasts You Need To Download Today
The best part about discovering podcasts has been in finding the community of like-minded people that I can learn from and listen to every week. Podcasts are my jam. I got into them after co-hosting my own show and realizing that there is a freedom in creating podcasts that you can’t find in other mediums....
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6 Trans And Non-Binary Creatives Describe Their Paths To Success
Wear Your Voice interviewed 6 trans and non-binary (NB) artists, in hopes that others will gain the confidence to know that they are not alone. Navigating spaces has never been easy for transgender and non-binary people who have to go through the hurdles of various forms of discrimination in the workplace, finding romantic partners, using...
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“Bitches Don’t Know What They Want”: On Unsolicited Dick Offers And Misogynoir
We support and we march in support of black men, but we can’t get to work or home without fighting through dick offers and bitch insults from them. By M. Shelly Conner Let’s be clear: I paid three dollars and a hug for street harassment. Or assault. I still don’t know what to call it. I...