FtF: Female to Femme celebrates dyke femme identities and imagines a world in which
femme— not female masculinities— is the exemplary signifier of queerness. A film that
envisions more than it “documents”, FtF denaturalizes gender and pushes for an
understanding of femininity as multiple rather than singular, constructed rather than
natural, and as being as potentially radical on someone "born female" as masculinity,
which has lately been given a great deal of privilege in the group formerly known as the
dyke community. Colorful, sexy, funny and moving, FtF features a host of fabulous
femmes, including actress/ writer Guinivere Turner, writer/activist Jewelle Gomez, rock
stars Leslie Mah and Bitch, professors, activists, artists and dancers. FtF: Female to
Femme makes use of parody and costuming much the way femme does: to create a
saucy, indelible impression of a people and a politics central to the gender revolution.
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