Figuring Femme

What is it about?

From a combined personal and theoretical point of departure, the article aims to provide knowledge about the phenomenon, femme, a queer and non-normative femininity. It puts the author's life history as a queer femme central; this story is told in a condensed version through a poem, Figuring Femme, as a frame for the theoretical reflections. The poem is linked with different kinds of queer, feminist and posthumanist theorizstions that all resonate with the ways in which the author has come to make sense of her* life history as told in the poem. Each of the poem’s six stanzas gives rise to a vignette, i.e. a short theoretical reflection on a key theme. The six key themes that the article deals with are: 1) symbiosis and mourning, 2) companionship 3) sexual receptivity and femmephobia, 4) philosophy in the feminine 5) transition from female-to-femme 6) to become human or not. Through the poem and the resonating theoretical vignettes, the article entangles a personal-poetic and theoretical approach to femme and a femme-inism, a feminism that takes a point of departure in femme perspectives.

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