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Glitter Everywhere

Glitter, Difficult Conversations and Revolutionary Dreams EVERYWHERE…what else could we be talking about but FemmeCon 2012?

By On 09/25/2012 · Leave a Comment

Sigh. Its done. This year’s 2012 Femme Conference is done. You did it all with us: conference attendees, media outlets, donors, the city of Baltimore, hardworking volunteers, working committee members, keynotes, presenters, ASL Interpreters, performers, vendors, steering committee members, those that created the seed for the first femme conference and have stood near us in [...]

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What the Femme Conference Means to Me And You Too-Let’s Talk Video Contest

By On 07/18/2012 · Leave a Comment

I’m Aries Hines Media Co-Chair and I remember Femme Conference 2010 not because I was there but because I wanted to be and couldn’t. It was in Oakland, one of the many cities that helped nurture my queer sense of self. I had just moved from Oakland to San Diego. And I remember visiting the [...]

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Jelly Bracelet Outreach for femme con!

By On 06/01/2012 · Leave a Comment

Hi! Maggie Cee, outreach chair here.  Last night my friends and I at MadFemmePride in Boston threw a Pride Eve party and it got me excited to share our pride preparations with you.

For about 4 years we’ve been putting together a little giveaway with a flier to give out as we [...]

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Femme Visibility

By On 05/04/2012 · Leave a Comment

Hi Femmes! Allison (Cherry Poppins) here. Recently, I posted on my own blog about femme visibility. I had kind of worried that we we would all be tired of discussing visibility. Not so much. That post got more hits than any of my posts to date.

A few days later, [...]

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Leopard Print: A Collaborative Femme Art Piece

By On 04/11/2012 · 3 Comments

Hi Everyone, it’s Jade from Programming posting again for a friend. Her name is Caitlin Rose Sweet, and she has a rad idea for a collaborative piece for the art show. Send her your leopard print cast offs! The deadline to submit to this particular project (and not the artshow itself is JULY 1ST)

I [...]

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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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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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Eight Cities participate in Beyond Visibility Week of Femme Action!

By On 01/14/2012 · 1 Comment

We are so pleased that, in response to our December Call to Action, that femme-powered events have been organized in eight cities across North America from Jan 15 – Jan 23, 2012.

Events are being locally organized in in Baltimore, LA, Montreal, NYC, Philadelphia, PDX, San Francisco, and [...]

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How to Honor a Femme Raises $2500!

By On 01/03/2012 · Leave a Comment

We’re so, so grateful and excited that our How To Honor A Femme campaign raised over $2500 for the upcoming Femme 2012 Conference! This, along with the very generous donation from the annual Fat Girl Flea Market in NYC will be used by our all-volunteer collective to produce the most accessible and amazing [...]

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Femme Call to Action in January!

By On 12/10/2011 · 1 Comment

This Call to Action invites self-defined queer folks on femme/inine spectrums to get together during the week of Jan 15-21, 2012 to share and generate ideas and information about their work [femme-related and otherwise]; to spark conversations, build alliances, celebrate each other, have fun — and instigate the January launch of the Calls for Performers [...]

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