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Queering Femininity: A National Femme Conference 5/27-30, 2005
The conference will be held on Memorial Day Weekend, May 27 – 30th, 2005. Queering Femininity is a national conference to explore and celebrate the many ways queers consciously construct femininity.
What
Queering Femininity is a national conference to explore and celebrate the many ways queers consciously construct femininity. The conference will offer a variety of presentations and workshops addressing aspects of living as queer and feminine, and the complex challenges we face in building and sustaining community.
Who
Queering Femininity is open to anyone. The programming is focused primarily on the lives of feminine-identified people in relation to queer, lesbian, bisexual, dyke, and trans communities. Whether you identify as femme, feminine, female or queer, are part of a queer community because of the people you love, or are simply questioning the role of femininity in your life, this conference is for you. Queering Femininity is a trans-friendly event.
When
The conference will be held on Memorial Day Weekend, May 27 – 30th, 2005. There will be three days of workshops, panels, and caucuses, along with a vendor fair and art exhibit. Evening events will include a cabaret, all-ages dance, spoken word performance, and a play party. Evening events are open to the general public and have separate cover charges, with discounts for registered conference attendees. One-day passes are available for daytime programming, but we recommend attending all three days (and nights) if possible.
Where
Queering Femininity will be held at the Washington State Convention & Trade Center, 800 Convention Place (8th & Pike St) in Seattle, Washington. The Convention Center is centrally located in downtown Seattle, and within walking distance of Capitol Hill, Seattle’s queerest neighborhood. Many, many queer-friendly restaurants, shops, and bars are easily accessed from the conference location.
Why
The conference will present opportunities for us to share information, network, support one another, and challenge ourselves as we recognize and negotiate the impacts of gender, age, class, race, etc. on our lives and communities.
Please help us spread the word about Queering Femininity.
Queering Femininity is a national conference to explore and celebrate the many ways queers consciously construct femininity. The conference will offer a variety of presentations and workshops addressing aspects of living as queer and feminine, and the complex challenges we face in building and sustaining community.
Who
Queering Femininity is open to anyone. The programming is focused primarily on the lives of feminine-identified people in relation to queer, lesbian, bisexual, dyke, and trans communities. Whether you identify as femme, feminine, female or queer, are part of a queer community because of the people you love, or are simply questioning the role of femininity in your life, this conference is for you. Queering Femininity is a trans-friendly event.
When
The conference will be held on Memorial Day Weekend, May 27 – 30th, 2005. There will be three days of workshops, panels, and caucuses, along with a vendor fair and art exhibit. Evening events will include a cabaret, all-ages dance, spoken word performance, and a play party. Evening events are open to the general public and have separate cover charges, with discounts for registered conference attendees. One-day passes are available for daytime programming, but we recommend attending all three days (and nights) if possible.
Where
Queering Femininity will be held at the Washington State Convention & Trade Center, 800 Convention Place (8th & Pike St) in Seattle, Washington. The Convention Center is centrally located in downtown Seattle, and within walking distance of Capitol Hill, Seattle’s queerest neighborhood. Many, many queer-friendly restaurants, shops, and bars are easily accessed from the conference location.
Why
The conference will present opportunities for us to share information, network, support one another, and challenge ourselves as we recognize and negotiate the impacts of gender, age, class, race, etc. on our lives and communities.
Please help us spread the word about Queering Femininity.
For more information:
http://www.femmeconference.org/about.htm
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Homosexual male playing the role of women hurt women's cause. Their wearing women's clothes, the make-up, the exaggerated mimicking of the passive role that women are inculcated from childhood...stereotype women in a reactionary way. They help create and maintain the fantasy in the conditioned male brain of women on their knees and enjoying it. This is reactionary and hurtful to the women's liberation movement.
Why do these guys need this exhibitionism and role playing?
Who cares if they like fucking males or she/males? But to bring this to the street...to the public arena is insanity.
The argument that their exhibitionism on the street is their attempt to get the public to accept homosexuality as a fact of life no longer holds. Most people don't care how people choose to get a buzz -provided that it's a private discreet affair.
The she/males have no social consciousness and show no social responsibility because if they did they would not make a circus of themselves just to get a buzz.
Their parades just reveal how degenerate they have become - not worried that kids watch their sick parades and advertising ads.
Worse: they are not worried that they help promote the passive and submissive women stereotype, the violence against women, the porno industry...
They are sickos not because they are homosexuals or bisexuals but because they know not how to develop self-control and self-reflection. They just mimick and copy each others like monkeys in a jungle. They have no minds of their own. They are pitiful!
Why do these guys need this exhibitionism and role playing?
Who cares if they like fucking males or she/males? But to bring this to the street...to the public arena is insanity.
The argument that their exhibitionism on the street is their attempt to get the public to accept homosexuality as a fact of life no longer holds. Most people don't care how people choose to get a buzz -provided that it's a private discreet affair.
The she/males have no social consciousness and show no social responsibility because if they did they would not make a circus of themselves just to get a buzz.
Their parades just reveal how degenerate they have become - not worried that kids watch their sick parades and advertising ads.
Worse: they are not worried that they help promote the passive and submissive women stereotype, the violence against women, the porno industry...
They are sickos not because they are homosexuals or bisexuals but because they know not how to develop self-control and self-reflection. They just mimick and copy each others like monkeys in a jungle. They have no minds of their own. They are pitiful!
"One is not born a woman, one becomes one."
(Simone de Beauvoir- French existentialist philosopher and feminist)
"Feminity" in capitalist society is equivalent to passivity, weakness and submissiveness to the patriarchy. Patriarchy brainwashes us to interiorize the GOD/MALE imagery and its other flip side the WOMAN/SLAVE.
This queer-"feminity" "conscious" movement is reactionary. The sooner we admit this to ourselves, the better it will be to the cause of the women's liberation movement.
(Simone de Beauvoir- French existentialist philosopher and feminist)
"Feminity" in capitalist society is equivalent to passivity, weakness and submissiveness to the patriarchy. Patriarchy brainwashes us to interiorize the GOD/MALE imagery and its other flip side the WOMAN/SLAVE.
This queer-"feminity" "conscious" movement is reactionary. The sooner we admit this to ourselves, the better it will be to the cause of the women's liberation movement.
The notion that femininity is inherently reactionary is as backwards and stuck in a 1950s mindset as you seem to believe femininity is. Whatever happened to the acceptance of diversity. The notion of queering femininity is so important specifically because of the kinds of ignorant statements that people like you tend to make. You can only understand femininity in terms of the masculine. As such you deny women who experience themselves as feminine the right to express themselves as fierce, powerful, determined subject. By creating your reaction binary which reads feminine as powerless and masculine as powerful, you are trying to trap women in a construct that has been proven true over and over again.
I do not believe that all queer women are either butch or femme. I believe that there is a gender continuum at work in queer and straight communities. I do, however, believe that when condescending people like you decide that you are uncomfortable with femininity for you, then you need to own that and not project how you may feel onto others. Maybe when you put on a dress or makeup you feel vulnerable and week and a object of the male gaze. That is a valid experience because it is yours...but it becomes invalid when you assume that that is how all feminine queer women feel. Get over yourself, read some Joan Nestle, and knock the chip off your shoulder.
I do not believe that all queer women are either butch or femme. I believe that there is a gender continuum at work in queer and straight communities. I do, however, believe that when condescending people like you decide that you are uncomfortable with femininity for you, then you need to own that and not project how you may feel onto others. Maybe when you put on a dress or makeup you feel vulnerable and week and a object of the male gaze. That is a valid experience because it is yours...but it becomes invalid when you assume that that is how all feminine queer women feel. Get over yourself, read some Joan Nestle, and knock the chip off your shoulder.
I do not believe that all queer women are either butch or femme. I believe that there is a gender continuum at work in queer and straight communities. I do, however, believe that when condescending people like you decide that you are uncomfortable with femininity for you, then you need to own that and not project how you may feel onto others. Maybe when you put on a dress or makeup you feel vulnerable and week and a object of the male gaze. That is a valid experience because it is yours...but it becomes invalid when you assume that that is how all feminine queer women feel. Get over yourself, read some Joan Nestle, and knock the chip off your shoulder.
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