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Ulrika Dahl og Del Lagrace Volcano presenterer sin bok “Femmes of Power: Exploring Queer Femininities” utgitt på forlaget Serpents Tail, på Torpedo Bookshop Tirsdag 4.november klokken 19.00

What is femme? THINK YOU KNOW? French for woman? A feminine lesbian? A queer girl in a frock? Think again! Going beyond identity politics and the pleasures of plumage, Femmes of Power is a photographic tribute to a diverse range of queerly feminine subjects whose powerful and intentional redress explodes the meaning of femme for the 21st-century. Celebrating the growing femme presence in a dozen European and North American urban queer communities, here you will meet, members of London`s Bird Club, Atlanta`s Femme Mafia, San Francisco`s Harlem Shake Burlesque and Paris`s Fem Menace. Femmes of Power features both everyday heroines and many queer feminist icons, including Michelle Tea, Virginie Despentes, Amber Hollibaugh, Itziar Ziga, Lydia Lunch, Kate Bornstein and Valerie Mason-John.

The first book of its kind, Femmes of Power is a collaboration between renowned visual artist and gender theorist Del Lagrace Volcano and the Swedish ethnographer and femme-inist activist Ulrika Dahl and the subjects of the book. It unsettles the objectifying male gaze on femininity and presents femmes as speaking subjects and high-heeled theorists. Look closer – these powerful, sexy and sincerely ironic feminine figures are larger than life, bravely challenging femininity`s negative connotations and replacing femme invisibility with a fresh new face for femme-inism.