Davis, Jamie
- DePaul Honors Program
- Jun 27, 2020
- 1 min read
Updated: Jul 6, 2020
"The Evolution of Femme: The Case for Femme as a Multifaceted Queer Identity"
Major: Art, Media, and Design
Freshman; College of Liberal Arts and Science
Abstract
Femmes and femme identity have been stigmatized by both cishet and queer communities at different times. Despite this, femme identity continues to be recreated in new communities and new generations. The resilience and resistance of femme identity is something that hasn’t ever disappeared throughout the use of the term, and obviously the spirit of the identity was alive and well long before the word “femme” was used. Femme identity has often been fought over in regards to who owns it or can use it, but I argue that it has a deep history in many parts of the LGBTQ community. To attempt to claim it and box it into just one community is historically inaccurate, and cheapens the power femme identity has had to form solidarity across identities and to be a site of resistance against our capitalist, cisheteropatriarchal society.
Class: Honors 100
Rhetoric and Critical Inquiry
Professor: Jennifer Finstrom
Department of Writing, Rhetoric, and Discourse
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