Ftf: Female to Femme
May. 14th, 2007 08:08 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
snugglekittyOn Friday night, I attended the showing of Ftf at the Gay and Lesbian Film Festival at the Museum of Fine Arts. Accompanying me were ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
mrpet, 7j, and a lot of queer women.
The film was mostly a documentary, although the "female to femme support group" looked very staged from my perspective, and I think was intended as comic relief. Some of the issues discussed were coming out as femme, femininity and feminism, burlesque and drag, femme visibility, and pushup bras. :) They also spent some time talking about dyke culture in the nineties, when plaid flannel and crewcuts were considered obligatory apparel, and dressing as a femme would get you all kinds of criticism. I remember those days well, actually - that was definitely what my college experience was like.
I wish they had talked more about butch/femme, femme/femme, femme and trans issues. It would also have been interesting to hear more about what brought people into embracing a femme identity. But I thought the film was very good, and I would definitely recommend it.
Next Friday, I'm going to see the women's shorts, as part of the same festival.
mrpet, 7j, and a lot of queer women.The film was mostly a documentary, although the "female to femme support group" looked very staged from my perspective, and I think was intended as comic relief. Some of the issues discussed were coming out as femme, femininity and feminism, burlesque and drag, femme visibility, and pushup bras. :) They also spent some time talking about dyke culture in the nineties, when plaid flannel and crewcuts were considered obligatory apparel, and dressing as a femme would get you all kinds of criticism. I remember those days well, actually - that was definitely what my college experience was like.
I wish they had talked more about butch/femme, femme/femme, femme and trans issues. It would also have been interesting to hear more about what brought people into embracing a femme identity. But I thought the film was very good, and I would definitely recommend it.
Next Friday, I'm going to see the women's shorts, as part of the same festival.