{"id":11382,"date":"2008-08-16T10:54:28","date_gmt":"2008-08-16T17:54:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/jed\/2008\/08\/16\/11382.html"},"modified":"2008-08-16T10:54:28","modified_gmt":"2008-08-16T17:54:28","slug":"femme2008-queer-femme-conferen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2008\/08\/16\/femme2008-queer-femme-conferen\/","title":{"rendered":"Femme2008 queer Femme conference this weekend in Chicago"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Mary Anne is attending an interesting-sounding conference this weekend: Femme2008, a queer Femme conference run by the <a href=\"http:\/\/femmecollective.com\/\">Femme Collective<\/a>.  It happens every two years; this year it's in Chicago, at a hotel near O'Hare. Today's keynote speaker is Dorothy Allison, but I'm afraid by the time you read this it will be too late to see her.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, see the Collective's <a href=\"http:\/\/www.femmecollective.com\/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=12&Itemid=26\">mission statement<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I knew about <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Butch_and_femme\">butch and femme<\/a> as descriptions of gender presentation (and\/or gender performance? I'm a little unclear on this latter term), but apparently in some circles and contexts, Femme has become a political identity and\/or a gender identity. Interesting stuff.<\/p>\n<p>Also of potential interest: the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thefemmeshow.com\/blog\/2008\/07\/25\/femme-shark-manifesto\/\">Femme Shark Manifesto<\/a>. I don't know enough about this to know exactly how it fits into the Femme community and identity.<\/p>\n<p>More generally, I don't know enough about any of the above; Mary Anne introduced me to it in a phone call yesterday, so this is all still new to me. So I apologize if I got anything wrong here, and I recommend that those of you who are similarly new to these ideas go spend some time reading up on them before you comment.<\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mary Anne is attending an interesting-sounding conference this weekend: Femme2008, a queer Femme conference run by the Femme Collective. It&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gender"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11382","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11382"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11382\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}