The Femmes Guide is a sex-positive femme queer collaborative blog meant to be a fun, enjoyable, educational, and sometimes snarky look at femmeininity and femme culture.
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- August 2008
Sorry for the delay I will have a couple of really great blog posts for you over the next week or so including a review of a fantastic new book by Lee Harrington (one of our own Femmes Guide bloggers), as well as a preview of Johnny Blazes solo show “wo(n)man show” which will be up a...
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photo taken by me late December 2007 when I was @Sylvia’s doing a writing workshopThis can be a rough time of year for a lot of LGBTQ folks, but it’s especially hard for the thousands of homeless LGBTQ youth across the country who not only are being bombarded with the frequently triggering...
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As I work out the learning curve on a new editing program for FemmeCast: The Queer Fat Femme Podcast Guide to Life, I have started to produce some video podcasts. The first one is me (Bevin Branlandingham) and Taueret (Ferocity Correspondent) doing some activist stretches. Sometimes the holiday...
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According to the Tweet Cloud that was generated this morning of all the twitter updates I’ve posted in the last year the three words that I have used most frequently are: kestryl (my partner’s name), home, and you guessed it, FEMME !It seems extra applicable sitting here on the last day of what h...
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Hi Everyone! so remember a few weeks ago when I posted my review of the fantastic Cripping Femme Zine edited by the lovely Leslie Freeman? I’m back with more exciting news (if you are in NYC that is)This Saturday, November 21st will be the Cripping Femme Zine’s NYC Launch at Bluestoc...
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I had intended to write a quick and sexy blog post about having gone to the NYC book release for S. Bear Bergman’s newest book “the Nearest Exit May Be Behind You” instead this blog has taken the past couple of days to complete. I was excited about the event, really excited, eve...
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me with my very own copy of the Cripping Femme Zine!!!I was so pleased when I opened my mailbox last Thursday evening after a long day at work and found that my very own copy of the Cripping Femme Zine had arrived!!! Edited by my good femme friend Leslie Freeman it contains the perspectives of 1...
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art by Linda C. Hummer ( www.lchummer.com )At 11:10 pm EST last Wednesday one of my most beloved mentors lost her long and arduous battle with cancer. The cancer consumed her body, but never her spirit. It’s hard for me to believe that one of the most incredible women I have ever met has been go...
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photo snagged from Erin’s site www.faerygrrrl.comSecret time! Ok so it’s not that much of a secret for anyone who has known me for a few years but I used to be a *major * zinester. I ran a successful and vibrant distro that lived for years, wrote countless zines, taught workshops at the PDX...
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I read Leslea Newman’s ‘The Femme Mystique’ for the first time many years ago. Reading it came at a pivotal point for me. I’d just begun exploring femininity and what it meant to me, if it meant anything to me. I remember checking it out of my university’s library readi...
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Several apologies are in order – the first being that I do not post here even half as much as I should. Second being that I have mostly posted recipes. Thirdly that I rarely include photos in my posts. Sorry!Now folks, I realize that femmes aren’t the only people who cook. For me, how...
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Cross-posted from my review site. It’s super long, and there are lots and lots of screenshots (below the cut), apologies if it’s too long for anyone, but hopefully it’s at least easy to skim.Hard Love & How to Fuck in High Heels is a two-for-the-price-of-one DVD from Jacki...
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Why is it only called crafts if women do it? I've been on a rampage for the last few days sewing rolled cases for such items as knitting needles, crochet
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Ok so I'm pretty big on the shoe comfort, but even I have been known to on (somewhat frequent) occasions make an aesthetically great shoe choice, but one
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So now I am writing myself down, sketching directions so that I can be found, or followed. The word for you is butch. Remember this word. It will be used
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Lifted here from Sinclair, so many of you have probably already seen it, but just in case... Sinclair says: I’m told she already has about half of her
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Ok so a couple of blogs ago I mentioned how I was nesting a little bit and how a big part of that is that my partner and I were in the process of trying to
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On our anniversary in March, Dana and I went across the bridge to a little downtown shopping district and found a mom-and-pop bookstore. The only thing I bought
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So, I'm off on a bit of a rant...again...about how impossible it is for me to get my Lesbian Erotica and Female Bisexual Erotic published. You may remember my
The Femme's Guide Post on TFG by Sassafras Lowrey: genderqueering up your bathroom the femme way!
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A lot of us spend a lot of time talking about the invisibility that femmes face in our daily lives in terms of not always being read as queer and I think most
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