Day Twelve

 

















 My mood: artsy, retro, aware, awake

What I’m wearing:
•    Fantastic floral dress I found at value village (I graduated from my undergrad in this dress!)
•    Braided leather belt that I stole from my friends mom years ago- sorry marlene!
•    Black tights, leg warmers and boots (my new uniform apparently)
•    Dangly charm earrings

How I feel in this:
•    Very femme and unique- I got a lot of compliments on the dress today. Very womanly, my curves are very…curvy in this dress. I love wearing this belt at my natural waistline. Also, I must say that dresses are really the easiest outfits to make, throw on some tights and accessories and that’s pretty much out, not a whole lot of matching (or mis-matching) involved.

Some queer-ish, femme-ish questions I have:
•    How is “femme” different than “queer” femme or “genderqueer” femme or even just queer woman or woman? How does being feminist fit into femme identity?
•    Can I exist alone with my identity without playing off the identities of others?
•    Is femme or can femme be an identity constantly in flux or is it fixed? Am I inherently femme? Do I totally perform femme or is there some part of femme that has always existed in me?

Please add your own answers in the comments section or wait for my queer-ish, femme-ish answers to follow in the next post…..