From the monthly archives: March 2012

Tools, Resources, Access, Organizing!

By On 03/27/2012 · 1 Comment

Article & interview with co-chair jen valles on the herstory and current organizing of the Conference in the Windy City Times.

WCT: Why do you feel it is so vital for the femme community to utilize the tools and resources available to them?

Jennifer Valles: I think it [...]

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More on the call for submissions (from Cherry Poppins, Programming Committee)

By On 03/23/2012 · 2 Comments

Ferocious Femmes!

By now, you may have seen the call for submissions for workshops, panels, and presentations for the upcoming 2012 Femme Conference. We are getting some great submissions rolling in. Major love to those who have already sent in submissions!

We want many, many more so that we can have a JAM-PACKED conference schedule, [...]

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Dyke 2.0: some thoughts on femme and transfeminism – Jade, Femme 2012 Programming Committee Member

By On 03/16/2012 · Leave a Comment

I have been considering hard femme more and more as the identity that I occupy, and how much that feels related to my being a woman of color. I have been told countless time that my body as a woman does not matter, that I am not the right kind of woman, the kind who [...]

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VENUE ANNOUNCED!!

By On 03/16/2012 · 1 Comment

Drumroll please… this year’s conference will be held in the

Inn at The Colonnade Baltimore

4 West University Parkway, Baltimore, Maryland, 21218-2306 [map]

You can reserve your room now at a special conference discount using this link. See you in the pool!! Register now and get your proposals for performances and [...]

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A New Love Letter – From Ellie the Film Chair

By On 03/08/2012 · 4 Comments

Hi everybody!   My name is Ellie, queer femme animator/filmmaker girl extraordinare.  Well, maybe not so extraordinare (it sounded cool mostly), but I am the Chair of the FemmeCon’s Femme Film Festival.  :)  And I want to personally invite all of you reading this to consider making a film for us to screen this year [...]

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Femme Conference on Wikipedia

By On 03/07/2012 · 1 Comment

Hi all — we added Femme Conference [and Butch Voices!] to Wikipedia, for starts here under Butch and Femme: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butch_and_femme#The_Femme_Conference

Do folks think it should have its own entry and — critical for the success of such a proposition — is another nerd interested to collaborate to create the article? Reply in the [...]

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Reflections on Femme2008 and “hard femme”

By On 03/05/2012 · 2 Comments

Hey femmes & friends! This is Cherry Poppins here, Programming committee chair for Femme 2012. I wrote this recently and posted on my own blog, and I thought I’d share here. I’ve been reflecting a lot lately on how transformative my first Femme Conference was for me, and this post is telling one small [...]

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