It breaks my heart to see how femme culture was appropriated and torn apart by non-lesbians. Even the word itself was ripped away from you and this is so cruel and unfair. Femmes deserve better. I love you all so much.
What makes me doubly mad is that the reason “femme” was stolen from femme lesbians is because people wanted the oo la la factor of using a lesbian identifier that’s tied to decades of history and associated with a very specific fashion and glamour. They don’t want to pay the price femmes pay every day for being femmes though. They have no idea how strong and resilient femmes are, how powerful, they have no idea what it really takes to be a femme. I wish people respected you and your fortitude, because you deserve it.
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