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Hey Folks

I am on this rad panel following a hot film program at the FemmeCon. Check it out!
8/13
Films @ 1:30
Panel @ 3pm

Special Panel:

Femininities, Feminism, and Femmes
Sunday, August 13th
3:00-4:00 pm

In this panel discussion, we expand the political dialogue that Strap-ons and Straps Off! films initiate, and invite our community into an open conversation that explores the promises and limitations of a femme politic.

How do we change the lens through which femininity and femme have traditionally been idealized? How do we visualize our bodies, desires and cultures? What communities do we imagine as our own? How does femme identity intersect with our other identities? How do we harness this power for political effect? Please join us in this community conversation, with femmes and our allies, as we get to the heart of these questions and our desires.

Moderators: Darshan Elena Campos, Kebo Drew
Panelists: Tina D'Elia, Cindy Emch, Shawna Virago

Co-Presenters
Queer Women of Color Media Arts Project [add link: QWOCAMP.org]
Frameline/SF International LGBT Film Festival

Film Screening:

Strap-ons and Straps Off: Femme Identity and Liberation

Sunday, August 13th
1:30-3:00 pm
International Room
free for conference attendees
$5-15 sliding scale for Non-Registrants

A decade of films deliver new femme worlds, from the streets and sheets of Black Britain, to the elite white towers of colleges and universities, to the streets and frontseats of Fruitvale in Oakland. In this film program, bad-ass femmes, marimachas, B.D. women, womanists, lesbian feminists, and academic queer theorists take over the screen to imagine and re-invent femme identities.

FtF: Female to Femme gathers feminist queer theorists, punk rock icons, outspoken writers and femme divas to discuss femme politics and gender identity. Past Present Future: (In)Formation Sequence vamps through gritty urban streets, as femmes, dykes, faggots, jotas, and queers arm themselves with humor, fabulous headgear, and bitching self-defense manuevers. ¿Tienes Hambre? dishes up juicy tacos, a juicier butch and the juiciest femme in Oakland in this homage to the working-class realities of marimachas and jotas. As it beguiles us with glimpses of red lingerie, Cherries In The Snow: An ode to Joan Nestle celebrates femme history and a femme historian. B.D. Women smoothly struts from the sultry jazz clubs of 1920's Harlem to the very real homes and lives of Black British lesbians to gaze honestly at racial and sexual identity.

FtF: Female to Femme
by Elizabeth Stark and Kami Chisolm (2006 USA 52 min)

Past Present Future: (In) formation sequence
by Jessica Lawless (2004 USA 5 min)

¿Tienes Hambre?
by Margo Mercedes Rivera-Weiss (2004 USA 7 min)

Cherries in the Snow: An ode to Joan Nestle
by Melissa Levin (2002 CANADA 5 min)

B.D. Women
by Inge Blackman (1994 U.K. 20 min)