Those who know me well know that there is a very special place in my heart for queer history. I'm especially passionate about butch/femme history. For me, there is something incredibly powerful about the knowledge that there are others like me, that my community is part of a powerful legacy etc.
I do a lot of writing about that it means for me to have queer family, queer community, and queer history. My journey to femme was a rocky one. Many of my struggles involved not seeing other femmes. I feel a great solidarity with other femmes, past and present who have had the strength to walk through the world true to themselves, their lovers, chosen families, and communities.
Femme history is a big part of some of my writing--one of my most recent pieces appears in the Homofactus Press anthology "Visible: A Femmethology" that will be released in March 2009. the piece is called "Searching for my History" and I made a video of myself reading it this past weekend:
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if you go to www.homofactuspress.com you should sign up for the newsletter—in the february newsletter they will give a discount code worth 28% off the cover price for both volumes!!
Latest posts by Sassafras
- Farewell - May 1st, 2011
- Persistence: All Ways Butch and Femme - April 16th, 2011
- Little Red Writing Dress - March 27th, 2011
- Unexpected Butch/Femme Poetry - March 22nd, 2011
- Tell-tale Signs a Queer Femme is Queer - March 4th, 2011
thanx so much for sharing this book and website. i cannot wait to read the stories of other femmes.