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Got this update from the Femme Collective about this August’s Femme Conference. I have to say I am more than a little bummed it won’t be in Atlanta where my heart lives and the Femme Mafia began (our parent chapter), but it is amazing that this event happens and the board works really hard (for free).
xoxox,
Bevin
Dear Community Members,
Finances are tight for all of us these days, particularly for community-supported events requiring travel and lodging, like the Femme Conference. After a great deal of effort and research, we have determined that it is not financially possible for us to hold the 2010 Femme Conference in Atlanta as we had hoped to do. We are incredibly hopeful for our future as an organization, but we believe that Atlanta would be cost prohibitive to both the members of the Steering Committee and to the larger Femme Conference constituency. We realize this is a disappointment for many of us.
However, we have decided that rather than skip a year, we have the resources to hold the Femme Conference in Oakland in 2010. We are tremendously excited at the prospects of holding a conference in the city we had originally chosen for the very first Femme Conference (we ended up in San Francisco as a result of financial considerations, so this feels like a full-circle in some ways)!
We appreciate your understanding and your continued support. All details about hotel, dates and calls for submission will be announced at the beginning of February. We are excited and we hope you are too!
Femme Collective
Stay tuned at www.femmecollective.com for more information!
Category(s): Events
Tag(s): atlanta, femme collective, femme conference, femme mafia, reasons why I wish I had a teleportation device
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Queens Of Hearts, a Ladies’ Poker Night returns on Sunday January 31 at 8pm!
All genders and styles of self-identified femmes are fully welcome. Admirers are asked to stay at home and warm up the beds for the lady’s victorious return.
Bring spare change and your exlier of choice, and feel free to bring femme friends and pass this invite along.
For more info and directions, see the femme poker page!
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Tag(s): ladies poker, risk-taking
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I had a conversation earlier that led me to think about femme visibility in relation to femmephobia, so here’s a quick question: how and when do people out there feel that they experience femmephobia? My theory is that more femmes = more people “noticing” and talking about femmephobia, but maybe I’m wrong…
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Tag(s): femmephobia, misogyny, revolution
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Leather Daddy and the Femme cover
Our next book club meeting is on Tuesday, January 19, 2010 at the Silver Spurs diner on the corner of Houston and Laguardia in Manhattan. 7:15 PM. It is going to be lead by one of our Femme allies, Constantia. The title is
Leather Daddy and the Femme
by Carol Queen.
You should totally buy the book from Bluestockings (support local indie bookstores), but if you want it from Amazon that link works, and pennies of the sale benefit queerfatfemme.com!
We have lively and fun discussions, and speaking for me personally I have always walked away with an enhanced understanding of myself after we discuss a work.
xoxo,
Bevin
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Tag(s): bevin, femme book club, leather daddy and the femme, queerfatfemme, read this book on the subway and see if some hottie tries to pick you up
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My good friend Amanda, the Femme Family Madam of Southern/Country Glam (and my sisterfriend in ferocity), came up with an amazing idea for our New Year’s eve party. Instead of encouraging folk to create resolutions for themselves, she suggested that we all created revolutions and share them at the party. Revolutions that are about living and loving as whole, beautiful people.
I thought that I would like to create them when I am feeling hopeful about the world and am ready to challenge myself a bit. Posting them here feels like a great idea.
My 2010 Revolutions
- -I would like to move away from gossip, both malicious and casual kinds. True bonding and community building, in my opinion, does not occur while talking smack.
- -I want to write a poem a week. I am a reluctant poet, but I miss the electric feeling of a poem moving through my head.
- -I want to take a dance class.
- -I want to mobilize femmes to show up for protests and actions that they care about. New York is full of fucked up shit, I want to talk about those rage-inducing things and scream about them!
- -I want to be nude in public more. Because my brown, queer, fat, girl body is a protest all in itself.
- -I want to be honest, even when it hurts.
- -I want to trust in best intentions, especially with folk that I like and want to be friends with.
- -I want to look at my cervix.
- -I want to drink more pink champagne.
- -I want to eat more dark, leafy greens cooked in champagne vinegar with roasted tomatoes and whole cloves of roasted garlic and heirloom bacon.
- -I want to organize a panel about racism and anti-racism in the femme community.
- -I want to wear more gold and pink lamé.
- -I want to write and perform about the following subjects: Fat Camp, Sexwork, Hair, The Feminine Divine.
What are your revolutions for 2010?
In Ferocity,
Taueret
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Our next organizer meetings will be at 7pm at Re/Dress, 109 Boerum Place, Brooklyn.
Sunday Jan 17
Sunday Jan 31
These meetings are open to femme-identified people of all genders, makes and models who are interested in working with us in 2010 – and that means event planning, party throwing, deep talk having, and community building. See you then if you want to come!
Category(s): Events, NYC, Uncategorized
Tag(s): femme organizing, meetings
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Amazing!! This symposium is for all self-identified Femmes of Color who are lesbian, bisexual, gay and queer women—to explore who we are and how we are in the world. We are the builders and sustainers of this unique sisterhood of colored femmes who know it is not about how others see us, but how we see ourselves. Join us in breaking this new ground!
Call for Workshops, Papers, Performance, and Art
Femme of Color Symposium (FOCS) 2010: Celebrations and Reflections
March 26-28, 2009
Astor Crowne Plaza
739 Canal Street
New Orleans, Louisiana 70130
To submit a proposal, please submit to Krysia Villon at klvillon@aol.com. Please put “FOCS Proposal” in the subject header.
http://www.focs2010.com/
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Tag(s): conferences, femme organizing, QPOC
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We’re totally excited to introduce our new blog to the world wide web, here in 20-Femme.
If you want to write for us, feel free to contact the Head Madams at: info@femmefamily.com to get a login.
kisses,
Damien+Bevin
Co-Head Madams, NYC Femme Family
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Tag(s): femme organizing, writing
