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Shadow Sisters is a new fashion design collective based in Portland, Oregon.
Read more about them here.
Fairly certain I need everything pictured
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Cowgirl Boots
Follower Question: “I have a pair of pink cowgirl boots which are pretty femme fabulous, but I don’t know how to wear them without looking like Taylor Swift. Can you do a post on how to dress cowgirl boots in a new or interesting way?”
Answer…
(Source: fuckyeahfemmes.com)
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The Queer World of Rihanna
I need to take a moment to discuss Bad Gal Ri Ri’s Instagram.
Rihanna seems to be some kind of beautiful creature devoid of logic and judgment. Possibly she came to Earth from a planet of pure style, sex, and swagger. Through the miracle of Instagram you can be transported to her world where table dancing at Coachella and smoking blunts with Snoop Dogg are de rigeur.
Fashion-wise Ri Ri throws on denim hot pants, a pair of thigh high dominatrix boots, and a sports bra and calls it good. For the queer femmes who bemoan the fact that they must keep their nails short so as to not have their lovers recoil in terror at the sight of their acrylic talons, we can all live vicariously through Rihanna whose nail game is perennially on point. Rihanna tagged an image of her billboards in Times Square #thuglife- which seems to mean something very different to her than I thought it did? Although Rihanna has sullied her Instagram feed with a questionable racial slur in the past (the infamous “rice cake incident”), she has recently been posting images that are pleasantly queer. Case in point: Rihanna clutches a fleshy handful. Caption: badgalriri This bitch I’m wit iz thik az PHHHUCK I guess we can forgive her for being a Raiders fan because she looks so crazy good in this ridiculously simple outfit at a strip club. Caption: “badgalriri #ROCstarshit my daddy would be proud.” So now that I have voiced my appreciation for the fact that she is giving the whole world insight into this pervy and debauched life she’s living, I will also take some time to reflect. Rihanna is undeniably beautiful, fashion-forward, bold, and trendsetting. Almost every look she wears is au courant and effortlessly hot. Her Instagram feed belies a brash attitude toward her own celebrity, she faces the increasingly publicized world of digital and new media with aplomb. She flaunts all her exploits, all her narcissism (every photo she “likes” on Instagram is a photo of herself), all her immaturity, and her excessive luxury. I am still somewhat shocked by how overtly sexual this recent performance on SNL is. She is saying things like eat my cake, lick the icing, slapping her pelvis, and gyrating (it does make me want a pair of thigh high boots though).
Even though she says “I will make you my bitch” there is something…less than empowered…seeming about Rihanna’s performance here (I cannot forget that her star text also includes the images of her after being domestically abused by Chris Brown+ the combination of that with her lyrically espousing a love for S&M creates a complicated dissonance).
Rihanna seems confident in her real-life persona but is not so much a force to be reckoned with in her performance, say the way Ciara is.
I guess I can look past this and appreciate her as a hard femme style icon, and not just a tragic hypersexualized and commodified media image. And I guess what I’m really saying is, no matter what you think about her, you should probably start following her Instagram!
(Source: fuckyeahfemmes.com)
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I’m still a femme. I admire both butches and femmes, and those who identify as neither, even those who find the words old school or that they don’t apply to them. I’m not saying we should shut up, I’m saying we should refine our vision and work on our creative goals.
Why do we keep writing the same things about butch and femme identity, and do we need to keep doing it, in the way that we are?
"Overly earnest sentimentality makes me uncomfortable too, as does (what can seem at times to be) narcissistic fixation on expressing one’s own gender identity. Often what feels fresh to me is what is more personal, individuated, and especially, intersectional. It isn’t the 90’s any more, and we should judge things based on how they move us, their originality, and aesthetic merit. Falling back on cliches can happen even when you are trying to “express your truth.” I like that Whittall is opening up a dialogue about this.
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Femmes and Leopard Print
Send Caitlin Rose some leopard print items for her collaborative art project!
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