Curate, connect, and discover
since a made of a list of butch lit, I thought it would be nice to make a list of femme writing by (mostly) femme authors as well. books I've read myself in bold; take the rest with a grain of salt. I'd really appreciate additions, especially of fiction!
dykette by jenny fran davis
perfume and pain by anna dorn
trash by dorothy allison
all the pretty girls by chandra mayor
femme confidential by nairne holtz
bottle rocket hearts by zoe whittall
brazen femme: queering feminity ed chloe brushwood rose and anna camilleri
femme: feminists, lesbians, and bad girls ed laura harris and elizabeth crocker
the femme mystique ed leslea newman
out of the closet and nothing to wear by leslea newman
fierce femmes and notorious liars by kai cheng thom
dirty river by leah lakshmi piepzna-samarasinha
s/he by minnie bruce pratt
naked in the promised land by lillian faderman
a restricted country by joan nestle
rust belt femme by raechel anne jolie
my dangerous desires by amber hollibaugh
odd girls and twilight lovers by lillian faderman
another mother tongue by judy grahn
boots of leather, slippers of gold by elizabeth lapovsky and madeline davis
the persistent desire ed joan nestle
persistence: all way butch and femme ed ivan coyote and zena sharman
our own words by rosza daniel lang/levitsky in e-flux
high femme camp antics by jenny fran davis in la review of books
with gratitude and struggle by nan alamilla boyd in autostraddle
that time I went on a lesbian cruise and blew up my life by shannon keating in buzzfeed
femme-inism by paula austin in colonize this!