Sexuality Happens

Today is my day to do the Visabe: A Femmethology books blog tour. Some people have done write ups of what they thoughts of some of the writings.  Others, like Sinclair Sexsmith, have done interesting things with audio.  I’m going to be a little different.  For a few reasons.

A) I AM a little different. Why not carry it through to the blog tour?

B) I’ve had a hell of a time with the PDFs they’ve sent us freezing my Mac when I try to open them or DL them.

C) Femmes are different. Femmethology is different. My stop on the blog tour is going to be different too.

How different is this book?  This is the cover:

Yeah. That’s what I said. And that’s what a lot of people said.  This cover along inspired comments, conversation on twitter, blog posts, and so much more.

And regardless of your thoughts about the cover, conversation IS important. Re-examining your ideas of identities, also important.

I remember when I first started writing for the Femme’s Guide to Absolutely Everything. I was intrigued, confused, and interested to think and discuss the idea of Femminitity, especially when I realized that a fair number of the contributors were bisexually identified Femmes, a few of whom had cisgender male partners. It boggled my mind. I’d never thought of Femme as anything other than a queer dyke identity, yet here were these Femme identified women, from all different orientations and identities. I had to stop, and think about how I had defined Femme, and look at how I could redefine it to included these other people who identified as such.

Visable: A Femmethology I hope will do the same thing. The cover alone has already inspired so much conversation that I can only imagine that the pieces within will do the same. Femme is not exclusive, and the definition for Femme can morph and change and open to accept more and more. If nothing else, Femmethology will challenge you, make you question, encourage you to stop and think, discuss Femme and other identities, and more.

And that is why YOU should read it, regardless of how you and/or your partner(s) identify.

Get it at Homofactus Press! And then come back to discuss.

-Essin’ Em