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I am glad this roundtable exists, and I am glad the discussion in the comments section exists too.

We're not a militant or exclusive group, feel free to join up! My spirit is fluid w a kaleidoscope of color.

Also, all of these people who have identified as femme over the decades, who knows if they would have identified as women if they had the language then that we have now? So to me, it feels less like a brand and more like an aesthetic.

Intersectionality does not erase privilege.

Like being able to think about gossip as a way women and femmes communicate that is considered nasty, but can also be life-saving communicating about which partners and friends have been abusive, supporting each other emotionally, etc.

I am unsold on the idea of anything standing on its own, even though that sounds ideal.

There are so many assumptions that go into play around the femme identity, and invisibility is a real issue, simply because people still assume that feminine looking women are straight… even us gay girls tend to do that sometimes.

Aesthetics are a small part of my femme identity and definitely not the driving force.

This experience is one lived by many queer women and has arguably been discussed more and more with the rise of the internet, including a Twitter campaign by Huffington Post in 2014 that resulted in the hashtag.