Did you know we have our own day? I didn't! I just saw this on Facebook and thought it should be shared with all the Femme Galaxy readers! On July 2nd I'll be up in Alaska visiting my family, but I'll be sure to celebrate in some fashion or another. If nothing else I will watch Ivan Coyote's amazing love letter to femmes and think about femmeininity. How will you spend International Femme Appreciation Day? What do you think about the concept?
Butch Femme Queergender celebration of Femmes!
Femmes do rock the world. The rest of us are just scrambling around trying to find a spot to stand up and be counted - to be sure they see us there.
"…Vying for her princess kerchief
"May I ride for you, m'Lady? May I ride for You, today?"To impress her, even if it's only in our heads... 'cause we're wired that way and can't help ourselves; and we know it, can't admit it half the time, have conquered kingdoms, started wars, learned to cook (maybe not so well), given up all days off & driven miles and kilometers just to fall for moments near her eyes...
…Because femmes have this amazing power to inspire, to comfort, to tease, to hook, to care for; to freeze us in our tracks with a single smile or a fleeting sidelong glance.... We protect our own protectors when we defend our femmes.
'Cause a femme can stop time with a tiny wave, or the lightest feather touch across your arm, or the slightest tease and tug upon your tie, or, or, or….all effortless yet all powerful… A femme can make your world go bright and fill with color. And I'm convinced they even control the weather - wait and see. It'll out. ...There's a reason we say "Mother Nature," after all.
And God help you if she winks when she's across the room...the eye contact alone can kill you on the spot - though you'll think you've gone to Heaven if she lingers in that moment...
And it's all over before you even know her name.
...The way she moves, the way she smells, the way she brushes her hair and works some unknown magic with her eyes and skin...
She can turn a tarnished armored heart to softened gold and promise every sin, without the slightest seep of labor or ever losing softness, strength or stature...
...The Fire in her soul, the hearth around which the universe turns"
Kate West
Latest posts by Tai Quyn Kulystin
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- June Femme Writing Prompt - June 1st, 2011
- Welcome to Femme Galaxy - June 1st, 2011
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