Saturday, April 18 at 7:00 p.m.
at 5 State Street, Montpelier
[asset|aid=7|format=image|formatter=asset|title=femmethology.jpg|width=200|height=263|resizable=true|align=left]Femme–an identity that has caused controversy, celebration, and ridicule–is now the topic of a two-volume set from Homofactus Press and editor Jennifer Clare Burke, titled Visible: A Femmethology. Femmethology calls the LGBTQI community on its own prejudice and celebrates the diversity of individual femmes. Award-winning authors, spoken-word artists, and totally new voices come together to challenge conventional ideas of how disability, class, nationality, race, aesthetics, sexual orientation, gender identity, and body type intersect with each contributor’s concrete notion of femmedom.
Femmethology is essential—a roadmap of Femme Nation, an index, an anthropology, a manifesto, and a googleology. -- Dorothy Allison
I feel like I just ate stars, my body and its gender readjusting to the supernova questions, queries, answers, and truths in these pages. I am so grateful for this book - as a transman, as a femme, but mostly as a human being who values femininity, good writing, and the powerful brilliance that shines at the intersection of both. -- Scott Turner Schofield
This is the second of two VT events taking place on April 18! Join contributors Leslie Freeman-Dykesen, Sassafras Lowrey, Margaret Price, and JD Dykes for readings from the Femmethology volumes.