Brazen Femme
August 23, 2005 | 
Literature
While at a bookstore today, I found a neat book in the gay and lesbian section. Brazen Femme: Queering Femininity is a collection of works edited by Chlöe Brushwood Rose and Anna Camilleri. Intended as an in-your-face rebuttal of the concept of femme invisibility, the book features fiction, photographs, poetry, and essays. This is a topic of particular interest to me, because as a young femme dyke I do feel invisible. I make a point of mentioning my wife when possible, just to emphasize that not everyone who looks straight actually is straight. I have a picture of her on my desk at work, and when people ask me who it is I tell them she’s my partner or my wife (depending on how well I know the person). I agree with Christine Drinkwater’s October 1999 column in Femme magazine:
I believe I have some responsibility to be out, proud and loud about my queer/lesbian/dyke status. I certainly don’t desire to be mistaken for a heterosexual woman.
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