Femmes: there is no such thing as more femme or less femme, better femme or worse femme, good femme or bad femme, real femme or imposter femme.
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After all, refusing femme oppression and liberating femme expression is their motto.
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Candida Royalle founded Femme Productions in 1984 and Femme Distribution in 1986.
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She doesn't look like a femme fatale, but she is a femme fatale.
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Femme. Can you describe the first outfit you wore that expressed your femme identity?
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Self's celebration of the black femme form is primarily populated by black femme concern.
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Later, butch and femme identities started to exist separately, and butch-femme pairings no longer felt like a given (femme women sometimes date each other and so do butch women).
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Or a high femme owl warding off a heteronormative holiday with her deadly, femme fatale stare?
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It matters who calls themselves femme, they assert, and there is something distinctly queer about femme identity.
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" Art industry sources say the second painting was Picasso's 1932 work "Buste de Femme de Profil (Femme Ecrivant).
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Most of my femme nurturing came from queer and trans femmes of color, elder trans women, and femme black gay men.
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I didn't self-identify as femme until I met other queer folks who helped me see that femme is its own identity.
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Femme women date femme women, butch women date butch women, and some queer women date people who do not identify as masculine or feminine.
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I am femme because, as a femme queer boi, I have always had more in common with women than with men or masculine people.
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"Buste de Femme de Profil (Femme Écrivant)" was a little-exhibited, geometric study of Picasso's lover and muse writing in front of a window.
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"Femme Fatale," March 20073 Spears released another album, "Femme Fatale," which included the songs "Till The World Ends" and "Hold It Against Me," among others.
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I asked people across a range of gender identities to talk about how they relate to femme practices, and what being femme means to them.
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High femme [hahy fem] | adjective (high femmes, high femme people) Often used to describe a lesbian, bisexual, or queer woman who presents and identifies firmly as feminine.
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Maybe the straight women who choose to purchase that bright pink femme shirt are making a similar statement of resistance as were the femme lesbians of the 1950s.
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If you ask someone from the 90s to vogue femme for you, it would look somewhat like the vogue femme that I do, but it would be completely different.
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As part of Women's History Month, Broadly asked queer, gender non-conforming, and femme-identified people to show us the first outfit that they felt expressed their inner femme.
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The researchers, out of Washington State University and the University of Colorado Boulder, call this the "femme fatale effect" — femme fatale being a term for a seductive yet manipulative woman.
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"Cherchez la femme," one passing tourist commented to another, astutely.
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I think for me I'm constantly rediscovering my femme identity.
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It matters that Henson's character is essentially a femme fatale.
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Who I am: I am this slaysian femme queen goddess.
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I want to be seen for the femme I am.
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Male birds tend to be the most femme in nature.
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It makes me feel like less of an outsider femme.
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I am pretty femme, but I do appreciate my masculinity.
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In fact, the trans femme collective only has one request.
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I was the shameful femme foil to their butch pride.
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In my day, you were butch or you were femme.
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The Love Witch complicates the idea of a femme fatale.
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Portrait d'une Femme Noire Following a flash of Paolo Veronese's Wedding at Cana, the clip comes to its most arresting image and perhaps, most significant reference: Portrait d'une Femme Noire (Portrait of a Black Woman).
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Just as they defied expectations from straight society, butch-femme couples at the time ignored the "rules" of lesbian culture, which claimed that you couldn't be a feminist and be in a butch-femme relationship.
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But femme-ness doesn't simply relate to dressing up in stereotypically feminine clothing—the sheer popularity of the Futch Scale points to the fact that ideas of femme-ness can vary from person to person.
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De même, Mme Le Pen a su jouer la présidentiable, non sur le mode de la femme qui répare le sort des femmes mais sur celui de la femme politique qui veut sauver la France.
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And that's a place some queer critics argue "femme" doesn't belong.
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That said, "femme" describes something beyond one's gender presentation or aesthetic.
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Just because I'm a woman, I don't have to vogue femme.
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FEMME)Kornel Kovacs - Josey's TuneThe xx - On HoldBonobo - Break Apart (feat.
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For me, as a fat person, especially a fat femme, absolutely.
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No. I'd forgotten I was a bit of a femme fatale.
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You don't need to go high femme to get witch vibes.
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Talk us through the first outfit that expressed your femme identity.
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Talk me through the first outfit that expressed your femme-ness.
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Describe the first outfit you had that expressed your femme identity.
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Of course, this trope of artificial femme fatales is nothing new.
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Be as masculine or femme or gender-bending as you want.
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All this is part of femme culture, and I hate it.
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Three years later, Dr. Luke executive produced Spears' Femme Fatale album.
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Your practice also involves investigating the black femme identity through language.
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After that, the promoter Daniel Nardicio throws his party called Femme.
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They've always been sexually attracted to women and "femme-leaning" people.
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I present as femme, so some people read me as straight.
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I'm femme, presenting bisexual, in a partnership with a butch lesbian.
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I am a Black, African-British, fat, queer, and femme individual.
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Photos of Femme Wave 2015 and its organizers by Michael Grondin.
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There's a sultry femme fatale, leading our protagonist into moral dissolution.
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Others contend that when the term is used by straight people, they contribute to femme invisibility—the idea that femme queer women are often mistaken as straight by society, thus perpetuating an erasure of their identities.
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While many argued against butch-femme relationships at the time (and sometimes still do) as being attempts to mimic heterosexual relationships, Nestle claimed that butch-femme couples terrified other lesbians because they were unwilling to hide.
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What is one person's high femme can be one person's futch ("femme butch"); it's more about a state of mind, expressed through a multitude of individual traits including but not solely limited to how you dress.
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From the invisibility queer femmes can feel in some lesbian circles to the sharp vulnerability inherent in being a trans woman, no two femme-identified individuals share the same experience of what it means to be femme.
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Feminine-of-center people may also identify as femme, submissive, transfeminine, etc.
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Nanette Johnston was the very definition of a femme fatale. Beauty. Allure.
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She's not Popeye's 'girlfriend' … I see her as a real femme fatale.
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On days when we're both femme, we're much more prone to harassment.
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"I just experimented with not being afraid of being femme," he said.
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Seeking smart and sexy femme with a bossy yet loving attitude...P.
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There's Eiza Gonzalez as Darling, a gun-toting, gum-smacking femme fatale.
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Seyfried's mysterious hacker bears all the hallmark tropes of a femme fatale.
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There weren't enough femme options when I started designing back in 2013.
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ALMA MAHLER was the supreme femme fatale of early-20th-century Vienna.
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Islamistes et extrême droite partagent aussi un rapport à la femme embarrassé.
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It's important to note that not all butch women date femme women.
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Variety adds that Femme is actually the third show that she's announced.
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Ms. Weisz, though an intriguing chameleon, lacks a femme fatale's merciless hauteur.
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For many years, I felt immense anxiety and depression as a femme.
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Femme is intentional; it's a way of simultaneously challenging and celebrating femininity.
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Like most femmes who are cis women, I contend with femme invisibility.
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People have referred to her as a femme fatale and she's not.
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Have you ever wondered where words like "butch" and "femme" came from?
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She's what the French admiringly call a femme libre — a free woman.
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I call myself a femme tomboy — I have a little of both.
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In a statement, Femme Wave organizers said they stand by the artists.
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Right now in New Paltz, there's incredible femme and women musicians rocking.
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But I'm just a regular femme who likes to show her legs.
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In her work, she took on a different role, the femme fatale.
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Myth: Masc people are always tops and femme people are always bottoms.
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A black sea bass "bonne femme" was simply dull instead of simple.
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It was pure performance art, full of fairy creatures and femme fatales.
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I am super femme, so that stereotype is out of the running.
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No, not her bod – that '70s femme fatale they nominated for American Hustle.
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There's always the tried and true boho femme, and of course rocker chic.
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After all, tomorrow is another day... to dress as a new femme fatale.
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Ever since I came out and learned the terminology, I've identified as femme.
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Can you describe the first outfit you wore that expressed your femme identity?
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I identify as somewhere around non-binary or genderqueer with trans femme expression.
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Ironically, I erased femme and non-binary artists by not acknowledging their presence.
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Softness and femme energy can be turned on their heads to demonstrate refusal.
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Elliott does nothing to tone down the butch-femme dichotomy in the work.
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" EmmaAge: 32Occupation: Small-business ownerIdentifies as: "I'm a cisgender queer femme leather girl.
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Wine coolers celebrate the irreverent mixture; the lazy, afternoon buzz; the unapologetically femme.
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Students like Hugues, who identifies as straight, embraced coaching on channeling femme energy.
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The sale's top lot, Pablo Picasso's "Femme nue couchée" (1965), sold for $1,239,000.
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From the ages of 15 to 21 I dressed with a femme presentation.
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"I was too fat, too femme, too loud and too unlovable," he said.
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Francesca is a garden-variety femme fatale, yet the movie's most compelling figure.
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But now, if a guy is femme enough, I'd probably go for it.
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" Lia Clay, 26, a photographer in Brooklyn "I am a trans woman, and I represent myself in a way that is casual, and doesn't rely on being femme performative all of the time, even though I do consider myself femme.
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The sale's top lot, Joan Miró's "Femme dans la nuit" (1945), sold for $22,590,000.
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Whereas now, vogue femme is more about being feminine and having lots of personality.
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Before I got into the game, vogue femme was more about being overtly feminine.
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I thought it was as great way to subvert expectations about a femme fatale.
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Whether we acknowledge it or not, people love to look down on the femme.
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Hyperallergic sought out some femme and nonbinary street artists to hear about their experiences.
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It worked a lot of formal references to film noir and the femme fatal.
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Kid Congo: It's a celebration of the femme fatal and how we love her.
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At the moment I'm trying to figure out what femme even means for me.
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My body, and the femme body in society, is a sexual object to many.
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So it doesn't look like Vergara is going to be our latest femme fatale.
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I always knew I was trans, and I always knew that I was femme.
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Black Widow, meanwhile, was a Russian femme fatale and thorn in Iron Man's side.
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SOSA: Nobody wants to be in service to the vision of a Black femme.
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Outside Switzerland, La Femme et le TGV can be purchased for $2.99 on iTunes.
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"Sirene Femme", 2014, starring Lexi Laphor, music by Salmon Want more of Julie Orlick?
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They take the La Femme out for a ride in Allen's hometown of Detroit.
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Whether we acknowledge it or not, people love to look down on the femme.
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They taught me how to thrive as a femme, to embrace and celebrate it.
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To indulge in femme culture is actually to be brave, and to have strength.
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She only listens to one French band, La Femme, whom she considers close friends.
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Femme fatales: Three female Republicans helped kill the Senate's attempt to repeal health care.
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The hyper femme moves were offset by an onslaught of body and facial hair.
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Il est chez lui avec sa femme et ses enfants lorsque les attentats débutent.
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She was an aspiring femme fatale, but she didn't pull it off, thank heavens.
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Who is this femme fatale and what is this film with the intrusive soundtrack?
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Picasso's "Femme assise (Françoise)" (250) earned $2.9 million, far above its $1.2 million estimate.
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Between those two events, Ms. Karina won the 230 best actress award at the Berlin International Film Festival for Godard's "Une Femme Est Une Femme" ("A Woman Is a Woman"), in which she played an unmarried stripper who wants to have a baby.
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They were able to summon hell fire and all of this femme and faggy energy.
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Even if these femme fatales are male creations, their bad behavior can still be refreshing.
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In other words, femme lesbians like Kelsey don't exist until they affirm their own identities.
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It had been so long since I'd put real effort into dressing up super-femme.
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The case made more sense if Hadley was a femme fatale rather than a victim.
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Unlike closeted lesbians who could pass for straight, butch-femme couples made queer women visible.
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For all her witchy wiles, Scott's femme fatale is by far the most sympathetic character.
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But upon closer inspection, this femme fatale sofa appears to be playing a big game.
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We may find ourselves more inclined to let our inner femme fatales out to play.
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Her line delivery is multi-layered, seductive, and dangerous, slapstick as well as femme fatale.
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As a result, they created Femmi-Errect — a party to represent the whole femme spectrum.
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But "Cherchez La Femme," unlike Kid Creole's best songs, never really finds a comfortable groove.
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Bayonetta, a high cis femme who nonetheless tries to be open, is Kirby's natural ally.
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The command "Feu!" was given and the myth of the femme fatale spy was born.
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"I'm really open about being a beginner and being femme-presenting and queer," she said.
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I've even created imagery that deals with themes such as femme hysteria and the bedroom.
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But I don't do this all the time, and when I don't, I'm still femme.
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I'm a queer femme with a dark lipstick exterior and a soft, glitter-like core.
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I grew weary of playing straight or alternately playing super femme and being somewhat tokenized.
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Carlita Caliente is a pansexual, Latinx , femme living in Washington D.C who just turned 27.
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Ms. Hendricks, the office femme fatale of "Mad Men," is a neglected mother of four.
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The French cinema lost a grande dame, Danielle Darrieux, and a femme fatale, Jeanne Moreau.
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The plot was thwarted by Batman, but the femme fatale may have stolen his heart.
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But there is something very subversive about a strong woman dressing like a femme fatale.
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The date was actually a triple date with two other trans man/cis femme couples.
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She played the femme fatale Aishah in the Elvis Presley movie "Harum Scarum" in 1965.
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A consistent theme in media featuring queer people is the masc-femme, top-bottom dichotomy.
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So Karen keeps alternating between femme fatale and mysterious detective-novel damsel until he consents.
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But the company's first public foray captures the joy of being brown, femme, and queer.
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Sotheby's sale of Impressionist and Modern Art in London on Tuesday evening brought in a total of £87.5 million ($23 million), with Pablo Picasso's portrait painting "Buste de femme de profil (Femme écrivant)" (1932) notching the night's highest price at £27.3 million ($36.1 million).
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Images of St. Clair — an atypical Black femme racketeer mafiosa with power on the fringes of 1920's New York society — contribute to a transgressive collective of representations of femme masculinity (where Blackness is always already ungendered and Prohibition-era organized crime is not).
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These were radical communities, home to intergenerational bath houses, butch femme bars, and sites of protest.
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"Femme," like "queer," means different things to different people depending on their experience, background, and identity.
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Each month you'll get seven or eight femme-focused items curated around a pop-culture theme.
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Photo by Kay Tobin Lahusen: Nancy Tucker and her partner in butch-femme T-shirts, 1970.
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D'après une femme rencontrée à l'épicerie, les gens d'ici en ont assez d'être sous les projecteurs.
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I sometimes feel overwhelmed by my various intersections — Black, fat, queer, femme, with an invisible disability.
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There are plenty of femme fatales, occasional sassy sidekicks, and a lot of female love interests.
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Say the phrase "femme fatale," and you can recite the ingredients back to me by heart.
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The quintessential image of the femme fatale, or dangerous woman, was cemented in 1940s noir film.
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We call it "femme invisibility," and it's an issue that we deal with all the time.
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She was the badass, high-femme, lesbian director of programming at my college's LGBTQ+ resource center.
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"Amy Schumer is blonde, white, able-bodied, femme and yes, thin," she continued in a thread.
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In 1955, Dodge put that thinking to work with La Femme, a car made for women.
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Femme Fatales are always the villains — but since they always lose, their teeth lack real bite.
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I am a non-binary trans femme who has been undergoing hormone treatment for two years.
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Sore made Dilly Dally the breakout act of Toronto's 90s-heavy, femme-led indie rock wave.
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Anything from the Femme Maison series by Louise Bourgeois What are your plans for pride month?
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For their final collaborations, Mr. Godard made his soon-to-be-ex-wife a femme fatale.
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Oftentimes, Goldstein told me, tech accessories geared toward femme people are fashionable, but not necessarily practical.
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In 2018, femme editors and their published counterparts are turning their once nonprofit publications into careers.
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A lot of trans women, myself included, go full-throttle femme in the beginning of transitioning.
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In "La Femme-Fleur," Gilot's hair resembles leaves, her stemlike body sprouting abstract limbs and breasts.
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The sale's top lots, Henri Matisse's "Tête" (1936) and "Femme accoudée" (1935), sold for $75,000 each.
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Femme fatale, fallen woman, brazen double agent — every generation has its own version of Mata Hari.
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She was a memorable femme fatale opposite Basil Rathbone's Sherlock Holmes in "Dressed to Kill" (203).
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Dès qu'une femme a moins de pouvoir qu'un homme, on la soupçonne de vouloir se venger.
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"Il voulait une femme qui travaillerait en dehors de la ferme, et il voulait devenir papa".
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It had everything you'd ever need to transform into the femme fatale that is Harley Quinn.
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Picture the power suit, the briefcase, shoulder pads, even heels — the trademark footwear of femme fatales.
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This is what drew me to erotic thrillers: the unselfconscious, debauched frigidity of the femme fatale.
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Watch: Broadly Meets: Virginia Despentes on Killing Rapists "Femme fatales are a complicated trope," Gates says.
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"Butch-femme relationships, as I experienced them, were complex erotic statements...filled with a deeply lesbian language of stance, dress, gesture, loving, courage, and autonomy," Joan Nestle, founder of the Lesbian Herstory Archives, wrote in her essay Butch-Femme Relationships and Sexual Courage in the 1950's.
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" Describing her character as "badass," the London native says Qi'ra "kind of follows a femme fatale arc.
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Kimmortal "Sad Femme Club" This song speaks to me and it should speak to you as well.
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The UK's culture minister Ed Vaizey placed a temporary export bar on Alberto Giacometti's "Femme" (1928–29).
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Or maybe like the juxtaposition of angst and violence Besson stirred into La Femme Nikita or Lucy.
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You don't have to identify as femme to enjoy fashion, though, and ironically Style Savvy knows this.
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And vocal fry, for its part, is criticised as a put-on sexy, fake-femme-fatale affectation.
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He can't be too loud with his sports while I'm watching what I call my femme shows.
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They inspire me to be rooted in queer and femme energy in my day-to-day life.
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"I think I'm going to do a girlie little bee, a queen bee, very femme," she said.
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It's the sort of red that leads you into trouble: the red of vamps and femme fatales.
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She's entirely trapped into assuming this femme fatale personality, until she breaks free at the season's end.
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I think it's really hard for a piece of texture or clothing to give that femme feeling.
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Can you imagine how shittily men would treat Ready Player One if it was all femme stuff?
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All you have to do is unconditionally, unreservedly love yourself in all forms — especially the femme one.
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In my dreams, femme expression is just another normalized piece of this fun thing we call 'fashion.
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Puts powerful voices of color, queer femme bodies across every imaginable spectrum, in front of the camera.
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Despite an attempt to revive sales the following year with a "queenly purple" paintjob, La Femme flopped.
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Elsewhere, you can save on Joop Femme Eau de Toilette and a whole bunch of other fragrances.
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The project collaborated with seven Black femme illustrators and animators to create designed GIFs depicting Black culture.
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While Han does his best Standard-Issue Hero Face, Qi'Ra's femme fatale vibe is almost impressively expressionless.
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In the UK, women and femme-identifying people have come under sustained attack by the Conservative government.
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Friday File Somebody paid nearly $64 million for Picasso's "Femme Assise" at Sotheby's in London on Tuesday.
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"White Cargo," in which she plays the campiest femme fatale since Theda Bara, is, however, exceptionally risible.
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He becomes one of those confusingly stacked men you see walking ultra femme animals in the park.
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Femme has been used a lot by lesbians within the LGBTQ community, and sometimes with strict binaries.
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When I think of femme, I think about people who don't ascribe to masculinity in conventional ways.
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Every erotic thriller worth its salt has a twisty (and, often, convoluted) plot and a femme fatale.
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You don't have to identify as femme to enjoy fashion, though, and ironically Style Savvy knows this.
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There's a track on the album ["Femme Fatale"], I wanted to make a semi-jazz electronic thing.
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Although we both identify as "femme," the word carries different meanings and implications for both of us.
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I understood from a young age that I was a femme, a sissy, something that desired softness.
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As a queer femme, Milan often felt that she had to "prove" herself to the lesbian community.
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In their first published book, Femme in Public, Alok explores what femininity means in our society today.
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Médine a grandi au Havre, en Normandie, où il vit avec sa femme et ses trois enfants.
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Another controversy has been simmering over the article "femme," the French word for woman, Ms. Rault said.
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John Doyle's reclamation of Hammerstein's reimagination of Bizet's opera about a fiery femme fatale finishes its run.
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In his travels, he befriends a "femme fatale" sort of character, and they create an important bond.
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Her coolly smoldering performance of this most famous operatic femme fatale showed she was more than ready.
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She was hyper-femme, and everything had to be very classy with bold prints and full makeup.
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Nana Chinara examines "violence on a black queer femme body," as she states in a press release.
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For years, I read about famous courtesans, real and fictional whores, tragic victims, and heroic femme fatales.
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Byström: This is how society treats femme bodies, so we wouldn't expect Instagram to do anything else.
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While masc4masc Grindr preferences might seem like a new thing, the stigmatization of femme gays is not.
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Meanwhile, Ellie may be a classic noir femme fatale, or she may just be a casual acquaintance.
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Kali Spitzer (Kaska Dena/Jewish) had a trio of scanned tintypes celebrating femme sexuality and resilience: "Fern II" features a curly-haired femme wearing a heavy gold chain, her nipples visible through her thin white T-shirt, returning the viewer's gaze and refusing to be demure or ashamed.
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Through a delicate choreography of loaded glances and small hand gestures, it captures Hanna's struggle for acceptance from her biological mother, as well as her discovery of a second support system in Paris Continental, a fictional vogue femme legend played by real-life vogue femme starlette Brenda Holder.
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Beneath her explicitly heterosexual exterior was a cynical tomboy femme, just waiting to come out and date me.
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And she was voiced by Russell's Mission: Impossible III co-star, Maggie Q, of La Femme Nikita fame.
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But she suspects they had an advantage, being an event that's run and attended by mostly femme people.
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Rizzla [Brooklyn-based Fade to Mind affiliate] called Sourland "agro-femme," and I think the two overlap nicely.
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But many queer people feel that straight women have co-opted "femme," and not only on t-shirts.
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This gray tank variation of the iconic hard femme look Anjelica Huston served in Vanity Fair is everything.
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While many people believe that high femme women are only interested in butch women, that is not true.
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The archetype of the femme fatale has proven to be fluid, and able to adapt to different eras.
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Pretty. I love being femme, I love things that are soft, I love things that are nice colors.
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Syro provides queer boys and transwomen the option to wear femme footwear that adapts to their everyday lifestyles.
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Pour le militant de base du Front National, la femme moderne est source du trouble dans la société.
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It's a trope older than the Bible, and still prevalent in the femme fatale types of modern entertainment.
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In the film, the trio sounds more like disciples of Terence McKenna than robotic neo-femme net artists.
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If Qi'ra seems a bit mysterious, that's by design – she's described as the femme fatale of the film.
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Alok Vaid-Menon is a trans, femme, South Asian writer, performance artist, and community organizer based in NYC.
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"Cherchez La Femme" is more screwball comedy than band saga, though Kid Creole fans will find familiar aspects.
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In the categories, it'll be women's performance, femme queen performance, butch queen performance, butch queen in drag performance.
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But now that we have a place to fit in, we shouldn't have to [be called femme queens].
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So when I say I am femme, I am saying that I try to live my life bravely.
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I also want the exhibit to give people outside of our community a look into black femme experiences.
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C toi ma femme [You are my wife] and I knew that from the minute we started dating.
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Barrymore is equally convincing when succumbing to the wiles of an assured and charming femme fatale (Karen Morley).
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In some ways, throwing back to her ultra-femme good girl image is a wise move for Swift.
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Our costume designer, Luca Mosca, had a vision: Let's go high-femme, let's go European, let's go structured.
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Ces dispositions fragilisent l'indépendance de la femme, et la réduisent souvent au statut d'une personne assistée à vie.
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I was assigned male at birth but I tend to lean toward a more femme presentation these days.
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In "After Hours," a proper bourgeois, tempted by a femme fatale, finds himself caught in an urban vortex.
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The sole sculpture in the show is an original plaster of a pregnant woman, "La Femme Enceinte" (223).
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I feel that my hyper-femme side will always play into my more masc-appearing self, for balance.
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Traditionally, the ditzy high femme superspy is a post-feminist "have your cake and eat it too" trope.
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A lesbian, Altman didn't fit her mother's high-femme standards of makeup, fashion, and generally keeping up appearances.
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Some working-class and masculine-presenting lesbians preferred bars, in turn, where butch/femme roles were most pronounced.
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Zero tolerance for discrimination is rule No. 1; everyone — young, old, femme, queen, boy, girl, straight — is welcome.
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He investigated this for his book, Cultural Constructions of the Femme Fatale: From Pandora's Box to Amanda Knox.
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The femme fatale is a huge trope — not just in cinema but in real life (see Amanda Knox).
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In "La Femme fâché" (1966), Hans Hoffman-like rectangles and intertwined planes make strident formations on her canvas.
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She released solid pop albums Circus (20153) and Femme Fatale (2011), before the more introspective Britney Jean (2013).
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The goth genre has given us a very specific kind of femme fatale: disenfranchised, bold, and sometimes completely mad.
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What is undeniably magical about Singleton's work, however, is the way in which he wrote his Black femme characters.
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Detective Pikachu is a traditional whodunnit story, except that it replaces the femme fatale with an electric yellow mouse.
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Dana was at the mixer, as well as another staffer, Ingrid, a cheery femme redhead and Olivia's program manager.
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In 2015, the Ivory Coast banned skin whitening creams, products like Femme Libre, because of their potential health effects.
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But there's no arguing that a vast number of queer and gender non-conforming people now identify as femme.
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That element takes a funnier turn through Jonathan, a more femme guy, who also has a crush on Justin.
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Read: New thrillers present women and girls who refuse the roles of passive victim, staid detective or femme fatale.
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Smith, through every kind of Bond Girl imaginable, the trope of the femme fatale spy is a pervasive one.
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The trailer for it dropped today, revealing that Robbie has yet another maniacal femme fatale character under her sleeve.
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The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation acquired Amedeo Modigliani's "Woman in a Sailor Shirt" ("La femme en blouse marine," 1916).
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I'm very straight passing, and more femme presenting, so I'm assumed a lot of the time to be straight.
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One day, he's hired by a femme fatale puppet named Sandra White (Dorien Davies) who claims she's being blackmailed.
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The character of Simone was really interesting, because in lesser hands she'd have just been a bland femme fatale.
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A woman is not a femme fatale, a gorgeous klutz, a sexy tomboy, or a manic pixie dream girl.
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Masculine and feminine, bears and otters, bottoms and tops, muscle and chubs and cubs and twinks, femme and butch.
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Elle faisait référence à une femme à Nice qui a été obligé de retirer sa chemise à la plage.
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Thankfully, I recently came across Richer Poorer's Femme Boxers ($24), which are basically men's boxer briefs designed for women.
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Those queens and the facilitator told me there was no room for me in there because I wasn't femme.
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For me, "femme" is an intersection of my sexuality and gender and the way it positions me within society.
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I am a queer cisgender woman, and my partner is AMAB (assigned male at birth), nonbinary, and trans femme.
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It's a question I grapple with deeply: Does it make me less queer, or less feminist, to be femme?
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I think these dualities such as shy boi and hard femme also reflect in your artwork and fashion design.
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Deviating from male-gaze based sexualization opens a new role not only for femme characters, but also for players.
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I loved the idea of playing another version of what nonbinary looks like, which is high femme, very decorative.
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Each femme-faced pancake had a back story — none of which, thankfully, involved any journeys from farms to tables.
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Est-ce qu'on prend en compte les grandes difficultés qui jalonnent le parcours d'une femme victime de violences sexuelles ?
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In the fine tradition of film noir saps, he hits the bars and runs smack into a femme fatale.
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Jamil fits well within the "femme" queer categorization: she has long hair, wears dresses and heels, and uses makeup.
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The contestants must skillfully execute all five elements of Vogue Femme: hands, catwalk, floor performance, spins/dips and duckwalking.
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Their best friends were the producer Mike Todd and his new wife, the femme-fatale film star Elizabeth Taylor.
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A consistent theme in both porn featuring queer men and porn featuring queer women is the masc-femme dicotomy.
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How did the stories (of the sexual revolution, or of a femme fatale) change when you center the woman?
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Sitting in the center of the room is Simone Leigh's sightless femme terracotta statuette, "Dunham" (20019), sporting an afro.
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There's a lot wrong with that perspective — for one thing, a lot of the modern queers who shit on butch/femme dynamics aren't from the working class, where those identities were born — but it's one I still sympathize with, especially as someone who'd previously been hesitant to claim femme identity as my own.
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The evening's star lot is "Tête de Femme," a 1935 Picasso study of his lover and muse Marie-Thérèse Walter.
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"I'm a black, femme, grandchild of immigrants in America, this is how I have always viewed the world," says Atkinson.
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When my hair was long and pink, I felt more femme, but when my hair is shorter, I feel different.
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They embrace the notion that behaviors and interests often seen as femme (like fashion and shopping) are shallow and vapid.
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Nearly every femme-identifying person I know has wrestled with tall bar stools, directors chairs, deep arm chairs, and more.
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Our identities shouldn't be opposed, but in communion with each other: butch and femme, trans and cis, lesbian and queer.
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I never felt like I had any choice about identifying as a femme — or as a woman, for that matter.
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It really expressed my femme identity because it's an item of clothing that is – and I hate the term, unisex.
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Douze: Whenever I'm making work as an artist, I create for other women, femme and non-binary folks of color.
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Or could only find attraction towards gay men and femme boys who damn near had the sensibility of a woman.
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It felt like simple validation from a masculine guy for being femme, which I found encouraging — although unsolicited and unnecessary.
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You go there and you see a wide range of age groups in the femme queen and trans women categories.
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If many of these attempts have the air of a hammy "James Bond" film, Marita Lorenz was Castro's femme fatale.
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Buffy is blonde and high femme and sexual, and her pain is still the most important thing in the world.
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TODAY'S NUMBER $45 million That's how much Picasso's painting, "Femme assise, robe bleu," sold for at auction in New York.
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This Chicago-based comedy follows best friends Marlo and Addy as they navigate their early 20s and high femme girlfriends.
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I get a lot of flack for being vocally opposed to this kind of femme and trans erasure in nightlife.
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Variety reports that the actor has signed on to executive produce a new show for The CW, tentatively titled Femme.
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J'ai simplement regardé cette femme retirer un vêtement et je me suis demandée : quand est-ce que cela va s'arrêter ?
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The waistband is unobtrusive and soft, and seated relatively high, which is flattering and feels a bit more decidedly femme.
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I feel that I'm still only received as a cis gay man performing femininity, instead of simply existing as femme.
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They embrace the notion that behaviors and interests often seen as femme (like fashion and shopping) are shallow and vapid.
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My life is this patchwork quilt of identities: I'm brown, queer, and femme from a poor, white, dogmatic Christian world.
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In the film's final act, the tomboyish protagonist goes undercover and femme to seduce and rob Rebecca's ex-associate Reda.
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Like Fox News's femme fatale pundits, she mixed right wing politics with a brand of femininity associated with women's magazines.
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The Future Is (Black) Femme is a new show at ATYPE, the youth hub on New York's Lower East Side.
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Amouage, Imitation Woman For the last few seasons, the house of Amouage has been focused on light, high-femme florals.
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As femme gay men, gender-nonconforming people, and trans folks, we too deserve better than to be caricatured by Hollywood.
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Breton viewed every Surrealist woman as a femme enfant who helped provide the male artists' access to the ingenuous unconscious.
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Her portrayal here is all ease and glowing smiles — she is a femme fatale reborn as a family-friendly comedian.
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She's a femme Narcissus, lost in her own face, so entrenched in the surrounding landscape that drowning would be impossible.
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Femme Fatale at the Park (210 2559th Avenue): Specifically for women, this is one of the biggest Pride Sunday events.
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Sur les murs sont accrochées des toiles représentant une femme mystérieuse parée de bijoux et le roi Léopold de Belgique.
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Federal prosecutors have depicted her as a character out of "Red Sparrow," the spy thriller about a Russian femme fatale.
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History has painted her as an interloper -- a royal consort version of the age-old caricature of the femme fatale.
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He was gay and femme and interested in makeup, a combination that led to some pretty ruthless bullying and harassment.
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In 2016, an Australian group called Cherchez la Femme attempted to advertise an event focusing on body positivity and feminism.
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The university claims that it values diversity, boasting about its history of championing black, LGBTQ, poor, and femme-identified students.
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In her interpretation of Salomé, Butler Rivera plays the tragic heroine both as a childish coquette and a femme fatale.
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The exceptions are few but worth savoring, like "Portrait de Femme Profil Gauche Sur Fond Vert et Brun" (1939), which has a tenderness one rarely sees in Picasso's work, and "Femme au Petit Chapeau Rond, Assise" (1942), from which Dora Maar looks out with a self-possession so striking it almost reads as a rebuke.
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Femmes are usually queer women, though any queer person who embraces traditionally feminine speech, mannerisms, and dress might identify as femme.
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The ballroom scene has been evolving for about 50 years, and right now, what is hot is the "vogue femme" style.
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Instead, it felt much more Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy with shades of La Femme Nikita, or at least trying to be.
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So, she held the cigarette for effect — it lends the photo a sexy, glammed-up femme fatale vibe, if you will.
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Think about it: The only original female characters are a femme fatale, a widow without a clear profession, and a housekeeper.
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In a follow-up video selfie, she rolls her eyes with a knowing smirk that Instagram is afraid of femme bodies.
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In the other, one queer woman rejects one of her suitors for being "too femme," because she prefers more androgynous women.
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A modern, self-aware femme fatale, Maddie uses the expectations of femininity to lure people in — and she's unapologetic about it.
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The video, directed by Bardia Zeinali, features the Australian singer dancing around in a bunch of very femme, very fashionable looks.
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It was a strangely significant leap for me, to visibly go from comfortably femme to something a bit more, well, gay.
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That for me was what being femme is about, being in charge of it, and that's why it's different to femininity.
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Instead, there were young, femme creatives of all races and body types wearing stunning, high-waisted designs in light, neutral colors.
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But femininity is conditional to being a woman — because how could a man in our society possibly benefit from being femme?
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He would have shot me for being a faggot who kisses other men, puts on makeup, and dances like a femme.
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Pour les islamistes, la femme est source du mal : elle représente le corps, le charnel, et donc sépare l'homme de Dieu.
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They're vogueing femme, so it's contemporary, but the way that Hanna is put together, that attention to detail—that's old school.
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Transphobia within feminist circles creates a deeper wound, where trans femme people are challenged to defend their right to be there.
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Femme fatale Victoria Vinciguerra (Elizabeth Debicki), while attracted to Solo, vamps it up for everyone else too, including maids and servers.
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So many of us, especially trans femme people of color, are in so much danger just walking out of their homes.
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She's a cruel femme fatale, a savagely protective mother, and a power-hungry tyrant who has zero insight into her incompetence.
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The choice of this image seemed to be made in response to the image, "Tête de Femme" by John Edmonds (2018).
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Real femme doms might respond to this comparison with major side eye, but to uninitiated folx like me, it feels similar.
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She's a femme fatale all right; she's voluptuous, glamorous, but Balanchine also made her to be cold, snakelike, lethal and brutal.
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That femme black people, otherwise superfluous to their white and nonblack counterparts, become so necessary when it's time to bring attitude.
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Another Picasso work Wynn owned, Femme au chat assise dans un fauteuil, was also pulled from sale, as reported by Bloomberg.
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Since I'm on the femme side of nonbinary, I thought it would be obvious that I wouldn't label myself a man.
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His labor-intensive process creates a new construction of superheroes, creating a new space for femme, brown, queer, and black mythologies.
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Other objects provide insight into the medieval perception of women, who could either be impossibly holy saints or treacherous femme fatales.
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The apology may be too little, too late, but the awesome ladies at Cherchez La Femme are turning lemons into lemonade.
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Being femme is about so much more than beautification, which is expensive and time-consuming and opens you up to judgment.
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When I was younger, "femme" was a term ascribed to me by others based on my relationship to a butch partner.
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Take Chloë Sevigny's turn, as a femme lesbian apartment flipper who literally flips to straight by the end of an episode.
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Cover: A burkini (R), a culotte swimmer (C) and a csuta are on display in the exhibition 'Cherchez la femme' (lit.
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The Sphinx clearly is in control, yet her domination is gentle: femme-fatale imagery is edging into a more nuanced mode.
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"J'ai emménagé dans ce logement de 35 mètres carrés, où toute la famille — ma femme et mes enfants — vivait, mangeait, dormait".
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I'd like to present more often as what's traditionally considered as "femme" because I like makeup, skirts, sequins, and the like.
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I believe any of the aforementioned things aren't necessarily femme, but rather just fun and stylish means of gender neutral expression.
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Going outside in a muscle tank, with a skirt, and a glitter beard is as much masc as it is femme.
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Jenner finished off her look with two diamond rings, bracelets, earrings, and $169 PVC and steel mules from Femme Los Angeles.
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With makeup, I tap into my hyper-femme side by creating colorful brows, overdrawn lips, smoldering smoky eyes, or graphic shapes.
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And that Qi'ra (Emilia Clarke) was somewhat boxed in by her role — she's a femme fatale, a century-old movie cliche.
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She had mastered the most effective way to capitalize on Black femme bodies, and my visuals did not align with it.
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As a grungy girl with an undercut, I didn't fit into the high-femme glamour that's typically required of Russian women.
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The spectacle is enhanced when cisgender men play trans women, as seeing said actor "en femme" becomes part of the draw.
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Things take a brutal turn when the businesswoman femme fatale Ruolan (Zhang Yuqi) begins an attack on the sea-people's hide-out.
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John Singleton brought the table to the table, creating multifaceted characters, giving life to the Black femme experience on the big screen.
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In it, local artists explore vogue femme — the Harlem form born in the African-American and Latinx L.G.B.T.Q. community of the 1970s.
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And as Entertainment Weekly points out, Red Sparrow features Lawrence as a femme fatale — and the plot looks a little too recognizable.
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Because, among the LGBTQ+ community, femme is a descriptor that can feel as inherent to someone's identity as lesbian, bisexual, or genderqueer.
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Back then, when the buttons showed up, I was a femme but couldn't tell if I was a Wendy or a Peter.
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It dawned on me that 'men' with large feet like mine had very limited (read: nonexistent) choice in regards to femme footwear.
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I have many D.I.Y. accessories, wigs, and makeup tricks that are just as invaluable to my femme expression as our Syro heels.
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Kiya would be a modern-day femme fatale — seducing a man twice her age, then enacting punishment — if she weren't so young.
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"But when I was really young, I had really femme-shamey, gender-shamey [comments] when I would dress like that," he said.
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Lastly, there were the classic Hollywood Femme Fatales — the typical storyline goes that she's a maneater dressed up as a seductive victim.
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Posts that say: 'I am femme but I don't feel like I'm good at it' tend to get the most affirming feedback.
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The Breakout Star: Dilone Public School, Jeremy Scott, Brandon Maxwell, Monse, and Brock Collection showcased their new lines with this femme tomboy.
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But the alleged femme fatale has always maintained that she was simply auditioning for a chance to become a reality TV celeb.
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I felt masculine and validated in my sexuality because I didn't have to be some kind of femme queer to be gay.
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Sartorially speaking, we get a pretty bad rap; too often, we're boiled down to our most basic binary of butch and femme.
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Lyrically, Phibes writes sonic penny dreadfuls about haunted houses, flying saucers, femme fatales, cannibals, the living dead, voodoo … all the good stuff.
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Nonbinary femmes like them are too masc for the straights, too femme for the gays, and too out for nearly everyone else.
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But, as Femme Ed host Laura Willcox found out, the pill might not be quite the godsend it's cracked up to be.
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Standing at 6'3", I'm as lithe as I am clockable—a fuzzy femme who goes by the neutral pronouns "they" and "them.
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A matchbook from working-class lesbian bar called the Sea Colony, is a souvenir of 50s butch-femme culture in New York.
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Gilot was also his subject, famously depicted in his 1946 painting "La Femme-Fleur," inspired by a visit to Henri Matisse's home.
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She has refused to be typecast as a siren or a femme fatale and has struggled to find roles that attract her.
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Another, by the artist Texas Isaiah, who describes himself as a "transmasculine femme boy," is in the form of a single photograph.
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Later, Bridge Markland, a woman who identifies as butch in street clothes, performs in full femme regalia: lingerie, tights, long red wig.
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Tap into your inner femme fatale or dashing private investigator lounging in a smoky hotel bar, and keep the icy martinis flowing.
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And that was only possible because the tabloid readership salivated at the idea of a feminine monster, a hyper-sexualized femme-fatale.
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Dans le sens inverse — quand un Tunisien musulman souhaite épouser une non-musulmane — rien n'est exigé de la femme, cette heureuse élue.
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Le président tunisien a clamé l'égalité de la femme dans le monde arabe, un univers social où la Terre semble encore plate.
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At the same time, he's hired to solve a case of blackmail for a (puppet) femme fatale, who's also a raging nymphomaniac.
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I can't deal with it being this kind of line where I'm closer to the men than I am extremely femme women.
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Jennifer Rubli from Femme International, a menstrual health NGO in Tanzania, says P&G has done a great job marketing its products.
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NEW BIG BUYER At Christie's, Yusaku Maezawa was the buyer of Picasso's 1938 colorful "Buste de femme (Dora Maar)" for $22.6 million.
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Leonor Fini's Cherchez la Femme: Portraits réels et imaginaires continues at Galerie Minsky (37 rue Vaneau, 7th arrondissement, Paris) through January 30.
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It was where the self-described fat femme posted pictures of herself to document her progress, often in swimsuits or her underwear.
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At that time, Miró painted the powerfully fearsome (and fierce) "Tête de femme, Varengeville II" ("Head of a Woman, Varengeville II," 1939).
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Will win: Ennemis Intérieurs Might win: Timecode Dark horse: La Femme et le TGV Should win: Ennemis Intérieurs is the right choice.
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"Femme" can be for anyone who pushes against gender norms and sexist policies that serve to further oppress those who are historically marginalized.
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Within the vogue femme style, a lot of people have begun to add lots of tricks—very large-scale dips and dramatic elements.
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"Seriously, I used to be a rake-thin, femme, fag bottom, and now I'm a curvy, andro dyke, mostly top," she told Broadly.
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Pablo Picasso's "Femme Assise" (1909) was sold at Sotheby's for $20163 million, making it the most expensive Cubist painting ever sold at auction.
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"—Moro "Hivemind reflects me starting to feel good about myself as a black queer femme, about where I'm from and who made me.
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Mapplethorpe always had an affinity for exploring the shades of gray between masculinity and femininity, dressing himself in both butch and femme drag.
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I still love the sneaky, sexy, sly femme fatale types from classic noir and neo-noir, from Double Indemnity to The Last Seduction.
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More often than not, those prestigious lesbian characters are femme-presenting, which largely excludes real-life butch/andro/masculine actors from those roles.
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Some of the people who describe their femme experiences in Autostraddle's roundtable are trans women, some are non-binary, and some are bisexual.
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Front Burner Jen Pelka, an owner of the Riddler, now has a new wine brand, Une Femme, with a premier cru brut Champagne.
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You can find so much: I dress a bit femme-ier; one of my roommates looks for business attire; another dresses more masculine.
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Meanwhile, their pioneering contemporaries who are queer and out, especially those typecast in femme roles, have trouble getting cast in the first place.
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I still wear this outfit on occasion but it's now become more of my drag and when I want to be hyper-femme.
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I think sometimes I'd rather just wear something that's not associated with femme-ness, that I want to be as neutral as possible.
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Il prône une politique à la fois nativiste et nataliste, aux relents féodaux, qui fait l'éloge de la femme au foyer faiseuse d'enfants.
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When a woman or femme says they're going to change the world, the expectation is that we're going to launch a non-profit.
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The Oscars' red carpet presented four archetypes we're familiar with in pop culture: The Bride, The Princess, The Prude, and The Femme Fatale.
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Instead, I went the other direction, into hardcore traditional femme, and became the most Maverick-esque alpha mom character I could possibly imagine.
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Hanson, a non-binary femme, said they didn't feel like they were eligible to apply for Pipeline Angels because of how they identify.
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For their latest collaboration, GIPHY has teamed up with Refinery29 Unbothered, Refinery29's Instagram account and initiative for Black women and femme empowerment.
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Seattle artist Raychelle "Ray" Duazo chose to represent the Stoneman Douglas students' message with iconography partially inspired by her queer, femme, Filipina identity.
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The investment group Pipeline Angels was launched in 2011 to allocate more angel investing dollars to women, particularly minorities, and nonbinary femme founders.
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Thibault isn't a lot more complex, and his comrade Sam isn't much of a twist on the sassy femme fatale with a secret.
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Transfeminine Filipinx artist and "Call Out Queen" Mark Aguhar (1987-2012), who made art out of being queer, trans, fat, femme, and brown.
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" A trans writer named Sara Ann said, "To be honest, I didn't like the way the female filter made me so uber-femme.
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Princess was a switchy proud high femme way back in the 1990s, when feminism was a dirty word and tops ruled the world.
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Whether they're the damsels in distress of idyllic romance movies like The Notebook or femme fatales, we're usually playing out someone else's fantasy.
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Richer Poorer's feminine spin on men's boxers has resulted in the ultimate lounge garment, the Femme Boxer, which comes in five different colors.
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Much of her time is spent on the road managing Speed Rack, the femme-focused national cocktail competition she co-founded in 2011.
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Femme International provides sustainable menstrual cups to girls in developing countries, while also educating communities about menstruation to dispel stigma around the subject.
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The juxtaposition of that snake with the dainty schoolgirl shape and high femme pink satin of Santigold's dress is a thing of beauty.
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In punk music particularly femme performers are categorized as cute, fuckable, or hysterical screeching banshees (I've been told I "screech" on multiple occasions).
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The Future is (Black) Femme opens tonight at 6:30 PM at ATYPE Jessica Pettway is a photographer and curator based in NYC.
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Picasso's swirling and circular "Femme Couchée à la Mèche Blonde" (1932) hangs next to Bacon's similarly shaped "Lying Figure in a Mirror" (1971).
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On the second floor, one encounters Rist's single-channel video works from the late 80s, which playfully subvert femme fatale and diva stereotypes.
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Le Maroc, la Jordanie et le Liban ont finalement aboli les lois qui permettaient au violeur d'une femme d'échapper aux poursuites s'il l'épousait.
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So I spent my days in hiding, standing en femme on one side of a door that I was too afraid to open.
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Ms. Engstrom is flat-out hilarious as a surreal housewife with a past, who's far too zonked to play the femme fatale anymore.
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"In 'vogue femme' there is a move called a 'dip' — a dancer tosses themselves in the air and falls daintily dead," he said.
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Glowing green eyes, blinding teeth and strutting legs introduce us to Bonnie, a femme fatale who addresses the camera through blood-red lips.
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"I think Ethan — a black, openly gay boy who is more femme than Simon — is such a gift to the Simonverse," Albertalli says.
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The sovereign of this scene is the Siren, the ultimate femme fatale, played on Tuesday by Maria Kowroski, the company's beloved senior ballerina.
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As played by Tcheky Karyo ("La Femme Nikita"), Baptiste has a Gallic world-weariness and certitude that take on epic, almost comic dimensions.
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So for Valladares, there was a market: men, mostly white, who wanted femme-presenting sexual partners and were prepared to pay with meth.
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I was inspired as a woman to do my thing because of other female and femme artists — Hop Along, Frankie Cosmos, Best Coast.
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Four years later, "Femme Assise, Robe Bleue" was among 64 Picassos recovered by free French troops from a Nazi transport train outside Paris.
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Kylie Jenner was on her way to creating a newer, hyper-femme version of herself with a little army of Kylies to follow.
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Kylie Jenner was on her way to creating a newer, hyper-femme version of herself with a little army of Kylies to follow.
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"Sales work because we want to win and get a great deal," said author and founder of The Fiscal Femme, Ashley Feinstein Gerstley.
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Carrington could've been the perfect profile for a femme enfant: in her early twenties, beautiful, eccentric, and subject to a bout of insanity.
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I had already been sketching out a script for a movie about a femme fatale witch, but that's what brought the story together.
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With the young girls, if you look at my work in L'Enfant-Femme, I was photographing them with the same frame of mind.
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To help combat this oversight, I sought out some talented femme, nonbinary, and/or queer artists who weave ideas around identity into their work.
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The lineup was also impeccably curated, tracing a global network of today's most exciting club music DJs and heavily skewing femme, queer, and trans.
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Similarly, the top-priced lots, Monet's "Le bassin aux nymphaes" and Modigliani's "La Jeune femme a la rose" each barely made their low estimate.
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Her brand is Une Femme and includes the Juliette, a premier cru brut, and soon be joined by the Callie, a rosé California sparkler.
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"What attracted me most was her keen cyber-self awareness and unapologetic femme presence as a young black mother," Twitter user Bianca Perez says.
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Bruso is a "self-identified fat, femme, queer, writer and former indoor kid" who credits an "accidental hike" in 2012 for changing her life.
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They just hated anything that they thought was "aping heterosexuality," as they'd put it—butch and femme, fantasies that involved anything masculine, power play.
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Enticed by the femme fatale-esque character Lila, he engages in a battle with another cluster, drawing a whole lot of attention to himself.
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I pass a grey-haired woman twerking with a tomboy femme who I would 100% card at the bar, and my heart is glad.
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In 1791 de Gouges had published, as a pamphlet, a declaration of women's rights ("Déclaration Des droits de la Femme et de la Citoyenne").
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Elle est mère au foyer qui a dû retirer son voile pendant un stage de sage-femme et qui a ensuite arrêté ses études.
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The Femme Boxer is made from the same modal cotton blend as the internet famous Classic Bralette that created waitlists thousands of people long.
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Profitable entertainment, but the femme fatale image promotes a misogynistic image of women as seducers who first weaken men's wills and then destroy them.
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Alphonse Mucha: Art Nouveau/Nouvelle Femme and Designing Through the Wall: Cyan in the 1990s will run from June 20 to October 6th, 2019.
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"We, as Indigenous womxn and femme nonbinary people, are making a stand against the continued violent oppression of brown bodies and communities," they said.
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It's indicative of a refusal to take femme music seriously and pigeonhole it away where you don't have to think about it too much.
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"Being femme, I still love playing it up and it can be fun and performative in some ways when I'm on cam," they said.
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I'm a part of a group called Femme Fatales, which started as a salon for women directors to get together and share craft secrets.
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There is no shame in any of these choices when the systems of oppression will always render black femme bodies less valuable than others.
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The work evokes Martha Stewart and Martha Rosler in a TV show kitchen set where two femme hosts create homemade "do it yourself" hormones.
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But it's equally important to acknowledge that the "Love, Simon" team reiterated the trope of the queenly, femme supporting character with no real plot.
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And because our culture sees femme sexuality as something cishet men consume, often erasing or ignoring our agency, bi+ women are hypersexualized and objectified.
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It's roughly the same outline as the director's 1991 hit "La Femme Nikita," which proved the French could outdo Hollywood at making action movies.
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Since Amonkhet is such a recent release, I hope Vitalist's inclusion is a sign that the game is desexualizing more of its femme characters.
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" Over the next few hours, dancers parade in front of the judges, competing in categories with names like "Old Way" and "Femme Queen Vogue.
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And the spas, in turn, have been embraced by anxious fliers like Emily Lyons, chief executive of Femme Fatale Media Group, based in Toronto.
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People accused the photographer, a young man with dirty, bleached hair wearing a sweatshirt that said "Violent Femme," of following the mores of Instagram.
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Une constante dans presque tous les films de Dolan : la femme à la fois forte et vulnérable, qui secourt son garçon au cœur écorché.
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The largely unfamiliar cast is uniformly good, especially Fitzgerald as the button-down femme fatale and Kelly, who segues convincingly between vulnerability and disdain.
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All of my intersects — being Black, queer, femme, fat — all of these different minority groups come together and create this one bubble of strength.
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I might be unnerved by the femme fatale's savagery, but I marvel at her ego, at her certainty that she deserves everything she wants.
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As both the erotic thriller and its parent, 1940s film noir, argue, even the femme fatale's more mundane preferences should be interpreted as unwomanly.
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Through the character Violet, the Wachowskis manipulate the femme fatale by suggesting she's motivated to kill not by naked bloodlust but to find salvation.
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Transition didn't change that, but mostly heightened it—testosterone made me love women even more and that extended into any sort of femme-ness.
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This video became an instant viral sensation, and Crocker got a lot of backlash from all over the internet for his femme appearance and sobbing.
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Also up for grabs is Picasso's 1942 "Femme dans un Fauteuil", a rarely exhibited work by the Spanish artist portraying his muse, photographer Dora Maar.
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In fact, the main thing that stops King Petyr Baelish making narrative sense is the fact that Sansa is his weak spot, his femme fatale.
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In these large, ambitious works, he paints the salons and boudoirs of society women; femme du monde outfitted and staged in idyllic movie-musical settings.
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Her fresh face and femme voice contrasted with her rough-and-tumble stage presence; she was an anomaly that epitomized a certain kind of rock.
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If you've been on the hunt for a shirt dress that's not super femme, Mei Smith could be the place to drop a pretty penny.
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We're looking now at one of her most famous images, the "Femme Maison" — a female nude whose head and torso are enveloped by a house.
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An erotic art book tells the story of a femme desert cult, recalling the days of the Manson family and the golden age of pornography.
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Black Widow, who first showed up as a femme fatale in Iron Man 2, was handled slightly differently, but became a core Marvel character nevertheless.
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When they told me they were officially going to come out, I encouraged them to transition into a more femme identity, but still non-binary.
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If I had grown up with different types of powerful female characters on film, maybe I wouldn't have this longing to be a femme fatale.
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The femme fatale is a robot and the robots are used as slaves: Is it weird for the hard-edged detective to sleep with her?
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For years, I've lovingly called my teacher my femme dom and I've often joked about the similarities between Iyengar yoga and Shibari (Japanese rope bondage).
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Both are trans-identified, but belong somewhere in between genders, and they've amassed huge social media followings as gender nonbinary, femme, and fabulous human beings.
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The guy kept talking about boys he wanted to bring home, but took it for granted that any gender-nonconforming femme was just a friend.
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Labeled everything from a femme fatale to a mentally ill convict to a victim of her own crime, Diehl-Armstrong died in prison in 2017.
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Yet Tawny, a trans femme, grew up on a diet of male signifiers, more likely to read Sports Illustrated than Blume's novel about female puberty.
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Entitled Peep Show and featuring predominantly female-identifying artists, the show takes a stand for women and against America's fearfully less-than-femme-friendly president.
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For comedian Laura Willcox's latest episode of her series Femme Ed on Refinery29's comedy channel, RIOT, Willcox explores the next big thing: weed lube.
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I'm very feminine, and femme lesbians were so invisible that it didn't even occur to me that it was possible for me to be gay.
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Heavy on lace, silks and layers, it has a Stevie Nicks in Tahiti vibe; the fall/winter collection, Une Femme, channels the French New Wave.
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A black, femme gay guy who wears ascots and keeps his hair long and straightened, Ethan has been out at Simon's school since sophomore year.
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At first blush, Chiana (Gigi Edgley) is a classic femme fatale sexpot and artful dodger who slinks her way in and out of wild situations.
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" The painting is a portrait of French painter Thomas Couture's wife and is titled "Portrait de jeune femme assise [Portrait of a seated young woman].
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Each of the five performers in Newsome's work correspond to the five elements of Vogue Femme —hands, catwalk, floor performance, spin dips, and duck-walking.
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And the 1970 Picasso pastel "Buste de Femme Couchée" attracted at least four bidders before climbing to £2.4 million, against a high estimate of £900,000.
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Of equal importance to the F=D curators was honing the Wrong's "radical inclusion" to focus on highlighting femme and non-binary people in tech.
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German's commitment to dynamic and sometimes riotous formal strategies expresses an amalgamation of Black femme iconography, including shrines to Serena and Venus Williams with butterflies.
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Cielo Oscuro, an indigenous non-binary trans femme based in South Central Los Angeles, brings high fashion to parts of LA rarely showcased in magazines.
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"It's done at 25," he wrote of a late Picasso, "Joueur de Flûte et Femme Nue," which he bought in Paris in October of 2010.
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Antoine Leiris, 35 A perdu sa femme, Hélène Muyal-Leiris, pendant l'attaque du Bataclan, le laissant seul pour élever leur fils de 17 mois, Melvil.
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Mike, meanwhile, is played by Jeremy Bobb and is something of the series' femme fatale, the guy who's bad news but irresistible for some reason.
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Google offered little: a link to Giacometti's enchanting plaster sculpture "Tête de Femme (Flora Mayo)" (1926), later cast in bronze, but scant information on Flora.
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What's lost in this exhibition are Lartigue's more genuine portrayals of his so-called femme fatales and his transition from black-and-white to color.
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"Femme dans un fauteuil", painted by French cubist artist Leger in 1913, is one of a group of five figurative works featuring a seated woman.
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" The painting is a portrait of French painter Thomas Couture's wife and is titled "Portrait de jeune femme assise [Portrait of a seated young woman].
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By 1945, Shafik received her doctorate in philosophy from the Sorbonne in Paris and became editor in chief of La Femme Nouvelle, an Egyptian cultural journal.
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Money maker Picasso can still make it rain: One of his earliest Cubist paintings, "Femme Assise," will be auctioned off Tuesday, probably for about $40 million.
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Fetish model Lea Hart and her burlesque artist girlfriend Vonka Romanov shone through the dark morning with their candy-colored hair and matching "Femme" t-shirts.
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At the time, she just saw herself as a particularly femme gay guy; though she was undoubtedly attracted to men, she had difficulty relating to them.
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They were both sugary sweet, a little retro, and very femme, but Perry was sexed up and candy-colored where Swift was all virginal white gowns.
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It can be hard to extricate this knee-jerk dismissal of the overtly femme from the history of fashion games, because there've been some bad ones.
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Another Lambda Literary Award winner, this collection from a legendary writer, activist, and self-described queer disabled femme of color is a must-read for everyone.
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And in some ways, it's a spy story about spy stories, and about women in spy stories — the femme fatale, the sexy assassin, the doting wife.
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So femininity for the femme lesbians in these types of relationships wasn't just a look, it was statement that they wouldn't bend to anyone else's expectations.
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Equally, I've primarily been attracted to women who aren't femme; women with shorn-hair aesthetics that sit between what mainstream fashion views as "androgynous" and butchness.
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But fewer have been honing in on making femme-leaning people feel more attractive in them, which is proving to be a powerful mode of progress.
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This femme fatale who somehow exudes the power to slay producers who outrank in every single way — age, status, security, reputation, cohorts — doesn't acknowledge the reality.
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I would use eccentricity as a weapon, wearing red lipstick, heels, hats, leather gloves, and extreme clothes—kind of like a femme fatale or a villain.
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The sole femme performance of the two-hour-long pre-show was given to longtime New Orleans queer bounce diva Big Freedia, who opened the show.
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Broadly spoke to femme artists, curators, and art students about the open letter, their personal experiences with sexism and harassment, and what they think comes next.
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And despite there being precedent (fellow blonde femme fatale Kim Basinger won the award for a noir thriller, L.A. Confidential, in 1997), it does surprise us.
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How amazing would it be if most, if not all entrepreneurs who applied to Charlotte's Pipeline Angels summit were trans women or non-binary femme entrepreneurs.
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Within our community, femme, non-binary, Indigenous artists and artists of colour are often heaped with the responsibility of educating those of us still catching up.
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As a first-generation Chinese-American femme born and raised in Flushing, Queens, my research is intimately tied to the Asian diaspora and urban immigrant experience.
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Here are 23 ideas on how to get going during the next several weeks from money coach Ashley Feinstein Gerstley, the creator of The Fiscal Femme.
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As an MFA student at the University of Illinois at Chicago, Aguhar cultivated a subversive online presence dedicated to a high-femme, queer, brown girl aesthetic.
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"Dynasty" works a little too hard at living up (or down) to its splashy billboards in the early going, with Gillies overplaying the femme fatale shtick.
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Here are some femme characters that I knew were absolutely queer (in my mind, at least) when I first became acquainted with them as a kid.
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Comic-Con would've presented a good opportunity to hype up the femme fatale team-up, so its absence could signal that the project has been backburnered.
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It can be hard to extricate this knee-jerk dismissal of the overtly femme from the history of fashion games, because there've been some bad ones.
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In the latest episode of her series Femme Ed on Refinery29's comedy channel, RIOT, Willcox explores the waist trainer's allure, as well as its consequences.
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For R29's series Femme Ed on RIOT, host Laura Willcox gives Elvie a spin, but not before checking in with pelvic floor expert Jill Hoefs.
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Ms. Lind — who has appeared as a docile Shakespearean heroine in Public Theater productions — shows a wicked comic wit here as a badge-toting femme fatale.
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It hangs alongside Cézanne's much smaller tableau "La Femme Étranglée" ("The Strangled Woman," 1875-1876), with which it shares a similar red, white and blue palette.
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Dominika is sentimental (mostly about her mother), but she isn't sentimentalized and never becomes the movie's virgin or its whore, its femme fatale or good girl.
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From the days of gathering darkness in 1936 until the end of World War II, Marie-Madeleine Fourcade was the very definition of une femme engagée.
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The larger of the two main exhibitions, "Alphonse Mucha: Art Nouveau/Nouvelle Femme," puts the spotlight on the Czech artist and his flowery Art Nouveau images.
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I hear it in the femme-shaming done to each other, and I read it in the "masc for masc" headlines on all the dating apps.
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The image of the lesbian couple at brunch, in particular, emphasizes what the standard of a nice, approachable lesbians should look like: slim, white, and femme.
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Lupin often commits his capers with help from a sharp-eyed gunman, Daisuke Jigen; a master swordsman, Goemon Ishikawa XIII; and a femme fatale, Fujiko Mine.
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Des personnalités politiques ont exprimé leur surprise, mais savent-ils ce que c'est, aujourd'hui, pour une femme, de se retrouver dans le système judiciaire en France ?
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While she thinks the queer community's opinion toward femininity is changing within younger generations, Hobson said she has felt that resistance herself as a bi femme.
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Which was, believe it or not, inspired by the very Dior idea of "la femme fleur" — the full, petal-like skirts of the 1947 New Look.
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Indya Moore, a femme non-binary performer and Pose's breakout star, was also snubbed, as was the unforgettably sharp Dominique Jackson, who plays diva Elektra Abundance.
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While it might have been lovely to see Picasso's "Buste de Femme" (1943) from Eindhoven's Van Abbemuseum in Ramallah, the concept was really the powerhouse here.
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That impromptu planning session was the beginning of Femme Wave, a music and arts festival that showcases the work of women, trans and non-binary people.
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In The Love Witch, released in May, Biller toys with the idea of the femme fatale by showing the archetype's dangerous sexuality through her own eyes.
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You want the greatness femme-identified folks have to offer, then you have to support them in their endeavors and take sexual assault and harassment seriously.
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But that's all interrupted by the femme fatale, striding into his mushroom-shaped office Sin City-style with bright pink lips in a black and white world.
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Often, the goth movie femme fatale is presented as especially unhinged; if women exist as marginalized outliers, then the goth woman is even further outside of that.
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Film noir has dozens of definitions, and often it's uselessly associated with femme fatales, drunken detectives, and moody cinematography, but if there's one essential ingredient it's ambivalence.
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We didn't want to make her so totally uncomfortable that it didn't feel like Adora at all anymore, even though it is her more femme alter ego.
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She is not always up-to-date on the latest progressive lingo, and doesn't really want to debate the finer points of femme gender presentation or feminism.
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I've watched queer femme authors get harassed so intensely that they have to leave the internet, and many of them aren't even trying to poke the GamerGaters.
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The show was noir, Logan was a gender-flipped femme fatale, and the reason their relationship was compelling was that they were both deeply messed-up people.
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Along with "Le Marin," Picasso's 1964 painting "Femme au chat assise dans un fauteuil" ("Woman With a Cat Seated in an Armchair") was pulled from the sale.
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On May at Sotheby's, for example, the powerful 1907 Picasso pencil drawing "Tete de femme," once owned by Gertrude Stein, sold above the high estimate for $27.743,000.
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Tea is now a sober and married mom, but she turns again and again to her youth as a poor femme running drunkenly away from Chelsea, Massachusetts.
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Sometime in 2015, folks started editing images of her legs onto various Nintendo characters, upping their femme appearance, and giving them all distinct, gender-non-normative presentations.
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It's not Dior, by the way, but it nonetheless effortlessly evokes a certain postwar femme fatale glamour, which is duly undermined by the opossum in line three.
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Impasse Ronsin was the address of Marguerite Steinheil, the consummate femme fatale and lover of many prominent men, including the French President at the time, Félix Faure.
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Before you can say "femme fatale," Chance has gone against all past practice and gotten involved, at considerable risk to his safety and that of his family.
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It may not be the Instagram-ready workspace most now associate with femme entrepreneurship, but I've built a fledgling business and inclusive community from between cotton sheets.
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Femme-presenting queer people and drag performers often experience stigma, intolerance, and exclusion from queer nightlife communities and dating scenes that uphold "no fats, no femmes" policies.
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The term "femme" does not simply mean "feminine"; it is used in queer circles to designate queer femininity, in a way that's often self-aware and subversive.
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I've always loved femme beauty rituals that are also self-care rituals, like facials, painting my nails, using makeup, or wearing dresses and jewelry and flower crowns.
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Miranda and I met through social media and wanted to meet up IRL because we were both black femme photographers looking to expand our community of artists.
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Critic score: 32%Audience score: 57%Stone appeared in one of her more daring roles as a femme fatale involved with mob king Mickey Cohen (Sean Penn).
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He winds up with a dead man riding shotgun and, later, under the thumb of Ann Savage, as perhaps the most pitiless femme fatale of the era.
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" She said that no one would approach me if they couldn't tell if I was masc or femme: "Who would want to date someone who confused them?
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As Karen, Hathaway makes a jaw-dropping entrance — long blond tresses and soul-crushed eyes, a femme fatale in white — in the only bar on Plymouth Island.
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Selon les prescriptions de la jurisprudence islamique, sauf exception rare, la femme n'a droit qu'à la moitié de l'héritage qui reviendrait à un homme à sa place.
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The solo was based on the poem "Femme Noire" ("Black Woman") by Léopold Sedar Senghor, who was not just a poet but also the president of Senegal.
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Its Thursday evening sale includes the 1946 Picasso colored crayon drawing, "Portrait de Femme Endormie III," from the estate of Anne Marie Aberbach and Julian J. Aberbach.
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The ever-busy Austin Pendleton directs this revival from La Femme Theater Productions with a cast that includes Kristine Nielsen, Annette O'Toole, Jean Lichty and Polly McKie.
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In John Doyle's revival, Anika Noni Rose stars as a femme fatale with David Aron Damane and Clifton Duncan as the other points in this love triangle.
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The misogyny someone like Swift experiences shouldn't cover over what Moya Bailey calls misogynoir, a particularly virulent kind of anti-femme, anti-woman perspective toward black women.
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Last April, along with queer party collective Black Charmed and Gracie Cartier, she launched Girls Like Us—a cabaret featuring femme performers from across the gender spectrum.
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But Femme Wave will feature about 30 musical acts, with headliners including L.A.-based lo-fi punk band Peach Kelli Pop and Toronto-based blues duo catl.
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During a time when studios ascribed to Eurocentric aesthetics, Lincoln's choice to wear a short Afro ran counter to the straight-haired, fair-skinned, prototypical femme fatale.
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There is Kelly Lynch, one of the film's villains, who vacillates between suits and little black dresses and leather like the hard femme I aspire to be.
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" (Naturally, the rejection of femme gays sounds exactly like misogyny.) Today, Miller and other social scientists believe gay dating apps are "branded in relation to traditional masculinity.
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This is where the femme fatales come to the forefront, as Lartigue went through a divorce from his first wife Bibi, subsequent affairs, and two more marriages.
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Similarly contentious, the word "femme"—an identity that's historically been erased, ignored, and undervalued in queer and heterosexual communities alike—has made its way into non-queer circles.
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That claim—that straight people who identify as femme are appropriating the identity—was echoed in a separate roundtable on the identity on the blog Lesbians Over Everything.
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Males see the flashing signal, fly in hoping for a chance to mate, and instead find themselves in the jaws of what are sometimes called firefly "femme fatales".
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And I definitely recognize my privilege and that I'm white, I'm upper middle class, I'm femme, I have a pretty classically beautiful face, and a classic hourglass figure.
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Related: Tattooed Skin Shows Off at a Design Museum in Portugal Tattoo Femme Fatales Sear Your Soul with Hollow Eyes Tattoo Art Takes Over The Museum of London
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After her release, she said her femme fetale image had been exaggerated, but defended herself against claims she was just a low-level informant and not a spy.
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The Affairs create a radical space for femme gay male and gender-nonconforming dancers to visibly participate in the artistry of hip-hop majoretting alongside their female peers.
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Being perceived as a woman or femme means you're subjected to anything from garden-variety sexism to abuse and assault; it can be maddening, and exhausting, and frightening.
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But defining makeup as somehow false is arguably an anti-femme vision of truth, another aspect of the male gaze that buys into conservative visions of women's innocence.
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And yes, it's fun to loudly, publicly warp archetypical perceptions of femininity and sexual dynamics — to insist dominance can be integral to a very femme woman's sex appeal.
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"Men:Parasites" felt like an opening to first accepting and experiencing the violence of being haunted by trauma, and then responding to it in an unapologetic, aggressive, femme way.
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It tells of a calculating femme fatale who can also be seen as a victimized young woman getting ahead as best she can in a male-dominated society.
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Woolverton, whose revisionist reading of a femme-centric fairy tale had a potent intensity in Maleficent, here puts her heroine on a time-traveling quest to rewrite history.
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One of the fastest — and already most explosive — pairings taking shape early in the season is between Kai and Jenna, a cis, femme-presenting, self-described drama queen.
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Nervously, she checks her nails, neatly manicured with dark red polish and cut short (a moment intentionally emphasized for queer viewers attuned to the subtleties of femme flagging).
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I was never very, like, Birkenstocks butch or a femme with heels, and I never felt like I fit into that kind of queer fashion or SF fashion.
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A classic academic reading of the femme fatale resurgence states that femmes fatales were a response to women entering the public sphere in unprecedented numbers in the '40s.
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Richer Poorer, the same brand whose comfortable bralette has become a cult favorite, dropped a collection of "femme boxers" on August 28 and they've been a runaway hit.
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There are also lovely female nudes, including Hugo's minimalist "Silhouette de femme vue de face" (late 19th century) and Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot's sultry "Marietta l'odalisque romaine" (1843).
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Among the motley crew of misfits in these houses, there are butch queens and femme queens, some of whom are openly trans and have ambitions of bigger things.
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Even though they're doing vogue femme in a modern way, the way that Paris makes Hanna up is more in line with the old school side of things.
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That's an example of the way a lot of men have been conditioned to perform ignorance and use accepted notions of masculinity to inflict violence on femme people.
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Möbius is a love story, yes, and there are teenagers in it, but it's actually an abstract retelling of the Orpheus and Eurydice myth with a femme twist.
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" The official Femme Feral wrestling night, THERESAMAYSMACKDOWN, is billed on Facebook as a "queer, feminist, anti-fascist, noise-driven ferocious fight to the death [of the alt-right].
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A femme-presenting queer man who got into alternative gender expressions at an early age, Crook couldn't understand why they had to fight people to feel like men.
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Dangerous Beauty: Medusa in Classical Art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art explores how the snake-haired Gorgon transformed from a hideous monster into a beautiful femme fatale.
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La femme est allée porter plainte auprès des autorités, mais elle a été rejetée sous deux prétextes majeurs : Elle n'avait pas de papiers, et elle n'était pas musulmane.
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Le résultat brosse le portrait de la vie de la femme musulmane, voilée ou pas, dans les parties d'Europe où le terrorisme a le plus tendu les sociétés.
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After wearing the Femme Boxers, we all agreed that Richer Poorer hits the nail on the head with a style of underwear that is both feminine and comfortable.
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Women's March Florida believes that no one person or group of people owns our Movement but that it is defined by the work of our collective femme agenda.
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My family is not supportive of my trans identity, and very quickly as a child, they tried erasing me as a femme by raising me as a boy.
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The film is still going strong, too, with upcoming screenings planned at the upcoming Crimson Screen Film Festival in North Carolina and Porto Femme Film Festival in Portugal.
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In season three, the Byrdes will be funneling some of the mob's money through a casino, with the help of the young femme fatale Ruth Langmore (Julia Garner).
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Caroline Polachek, from Chairlift, took on two Nico songs, "Femme Fatale" and "Sunday Morning," with careful aplomb; Sky Ferreira sang "I'll Be Your Mirror" with an alternate melody.
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And this all happens in Bechdel's beautifully crowded panels, in the matter-of-fact diversity of her men and women and their bodies: femme, butch, slim, scrawny, ample.
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The inclusion of femme characters, meaning those who have female qualities but might not identify as female, is often based on what is considered tolerable femininity—sex appeal.
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Large breasts are not inherently sexual, but their manipulation by male artists and writers for male consumption has transformed them into an entrance fee for many femme presences.
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The German soprano Marlis Petersen, known by audiences from Munich to New York as the title character of Berg's "Lulu," makes her debut as the femme fatale Salome.
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"S'il y avait pas eu la mer, aujourd'hui je ne saurais pas nager", dit Sana Jalleb, jeune femme à lunettes qui jouait au foot récemment dans un gymnase.
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Is Marianne a stylized studio-era feminine ideal, or a film noir femme fatale — or something else entirely, a modern woman decked out in Hollywood hand-me-downs?
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Maddie Alexander and Morgan Sears-Williams were set to display their show, titled Femme4Femme, at Memorial Park Library in Calgary as part of the annual Femme Wave festival.
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At Heffel's fall sale in Toronto, Pablo Picasso's 193 painting "Femme au chapeau" sold for $6.8 million, accounting for a hearty chunk of the sale's $16.6 million total.
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L'académicienne Dominique Bona, seule femme de ce jury de dix personnes, admet que les " liens d'amitié " ont joué un rôle important dans l'attribution du prix à M. Matzneff.
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"Whether directly or indirectly, [menstruation] actually affects everybody...and yet people who menstruate are unduly punished, because of something that's completely normal and natural," Femme International's Rubli said.
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The Twin Peaks locals cover a vast range, from femme fatale Audrey (who usually enters a scene to her own slinky theme music) to lovable doof Officer Andy.
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While Artist and Mother focuses on Los Angeles women and their practices, it's the pain and euphoria of motherhood, as experienced by femme artists, that is its crux.
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Back in my day… My best friend only saw queerness through butch/femme relationships, which was confusing since I do not at all see myself in that dynamic.
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Agro-femme New Orleans producer Kilbourne has shared a molten hardcore remix of Swedish rapper GNUČČI's single "Young Paula Abdul," dashing it with some of the wonderful Defqon.
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"Our identities [as femmes] have been taken by straight (white) women who want cool points," argued writer Alaina Monts in a roundtable on femme identity for Autostraddle last year.
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Bottoms Revenge is a story about an army of femme ancestors who live in us, and their fight to claim back their power in the material world through us.
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Others think the influence is musical, pointing to La Femme, a band that, on failing to inspire interest among labels in their own country, decided to tour America instead.
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The video stars Johnny Depp as the struggling rocker and Faye Dunaway as an industry femme fatale who lures him into a cameo-filled world of glamour and greed.
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I get a lot of comments and crap from people, even when I dress masculinely, so I was like, God, what's going to happen if I dress so femme?
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And as someone who identifies as queer, and identifies as a nonbinary femme person, that was such a gift for me to see and to be a part of.
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The male performer was the femme object; as he shed layers of his costume — dress, headpiece and, finally, mask — the materials of the performance set appeared to break down.
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DJ Serena Jara teamed up with Cunt Mafia in March for C-unit, a party with an all-femme lineup, including a performance by rising trans rapper Quay Dash.
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I was really unsure if I would be able to create femme-centric content ... [but] posts that tend to resonate the most are dramatized versions of my own experience.
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There's not a single woman, femme or non-binary artist who can't identify with the feeling of not being seen as creative and commercial equals to their male counterparts.
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In a world where trans people have been denied the right to express their gender freely, a high femme cisgender woman named Monica Prata has stepped in to help.
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While some of us like pink rhinestones, not all of us do, and you're only alienating customers by making sex toys in solely 'femme' colors and animorph-like shapes.
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Watch the Creators Project meet personal trainer-turned-performance artist Cassils, who challenges deep-seated notions about gender binaries: I've been a non-binary femme for about two years.
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All images courtesy of artist If cave paintings were able to kaleidoscopically cartwheel through a contemporary femme lens, the results would probably end up looking like Louise Reimer's illustrations.
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The irony being that it was femme gay men, visible and refusing to be cowed, who began gay liberation with the first punches in the Stonewall Inn in 1969.
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So once I knew that their love was real, then I was able to really move forward with this sort of sweet, bubbly, optimistic version of a femme fatale.
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Matar has continued to focus on women, girls, and cultural identity; another book on girls on the brink of adulthood, L'Enfant- Femme, is set to be released this spring.
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Perhaps I did something wrong — males tend to dim their lights as they draw closer to females as a caution against the predatorial femme fatales, so the theory goes.
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The actors who were singing and dancing their way through "Cherchez La Femme: The Musical" in a rehearsal room on Great Jones Street were in street clothes and gymwear.
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"Well, that's why I brought you here today," replies Leno, just before bringing out a 1955 Dodge La Femme, the first car to be designed by men for women.
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Idris Goodwin's "Black Flag," an argument about race in America set in a college dorm room, and Alexander Dinelaris's femme-fatale mini-drama, "Queen," are rather flat (2777:2777).
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Idris Goodwin's "Black Flag," an argument about race in America set in a college dorm room, and Alexander Dinelaris's femme-fatale mini-drama, "Queen," are rather flat (220:2777).
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Idris Goodwin's "Black Flag," an argument about race in America set in a college dorm room, and Alexander Dinelaris's femme-fatale mini-drama, "Queen," are rather flat (22:200).
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Even ones that are not about the case similarly include deadly scavenger hunts, not-so-innocent victims, criminal masterminds, major twists, femme fatales, and the demonization of mental illness.
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There are lots of accessories that cater to the infosec community, but what felt special about Goldstein's earrings is that they were created with a femme audience in mind.
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Idris Goodwin's "Black Flag," an argument about race in America set in a college dorm room, and Alexander Dinelaris's femme-fatale mini-drama, "Queen," are rather flat (1:30).
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As a genderqueer kid who has always been too femme for my own good, I found Ethan to be the only character in the film I could relate to.
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In a role reversal, Janelle Monáe, reigning queen of dapper red carpet menswear, decided to go high femme at the Globes in her sparkly, tulle-heavy Armani Privé gown.
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Following research by Southern Methodist University's Meadows Museum, a 22016 painting by Salvador Dalí formerly titled "La Femme Poisson" ("The Fish Woman") was retitled "L'Homme Poisson" ("The Fish Man").
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Peggy Cummins, an actress best remembered for her turn as a femme fatale with a hair trigger in the influential low-budget film noir "Gun Crazy," died on Dec.
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Sexual liberation prevailed at the time; Nicola L. delivered "Femme Commode" (1969), a yellow wooden chest replicating the female figure, where drawers were substitutes for lips, breasts and vulva.
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Bien sûr qu'il y a un peu de ma mère dans les personnages de femme forte, et bien sûr qu'il y a un peu de moi là-dedans aussi.
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In phone call after phone call, we hear Hernandez mocking queer people, distancing himself from femme-presenting men, and deploying what's clearly framed by Killer Inside as closeted denial.
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It's "subversive for a strong woman to dress like a femme fatale," Ms. Fendi said before the show (she herself was wearing a buffalo plaid shirt and gray pants).
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Some historians believe that Blaché's inaugural effort was "Sage-Femme de Première Classe" ("First Class Midwife") her 1902 remake about a young couple who go shopping for a baby.
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The cast may be the strongest yet, with Mary Elizabeth Winstead a particular standout as a femme fatale with more brain power than most of the other characters combined.
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"Joueur de Flûte et Femme Nue," which Bouvier sold to Rybolovlev for twenty-five million euros, he had bought the day before for just three and a half million.
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Russian women invest a lot of work in how they look and can serve up high-femme glamor: stiletto heels and evening makeup on a 6AM train to work.
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But Lynch refuses to see her as either just a "victim" or a doomed, villainous femme fatale, but a difficult woman who has internalized her abuse in toxic ways.
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I wanted nothing to do with the femme fatale of the story, May-Ling, but come my first ending it was her who, albeit unintentionally, brought about Matt's undoing.
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Safe sex advice for trans folk is so woefully inadequate it would almost be laughable if it weren't for the astonishing rates of HIV within the trans femme population.
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Hearing someone else speak at least somewhat seriously on the pop culture you love is thrilling; it's the magic of feeling seen as a girl/woman/femme/non-cishet-dude.
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The work is now part of what Enoch calls the Femme Tenta trilogy, which includes her newer erotic (and NSFW) works Space Labia and The Rise of The Pelvic Floor.
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According to her Femme Tenta Manifesto, feminist tentacle porn centers women's narratives and characters (from protagonists to predators), focuses on women consumers, and breaks away from visual and cultural tropes.
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Van Ness, who confirmed to Out that he still prefers masculine pronouns, said that he only recently became aware there was a term that reflected his embrace of femme fashion.
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Other casts of several pieces including the Woman with pram, the Femme enceinte (both versions), the Tête de mort, the Little girl skipping, the most abstract of the Boisgeloup pieces.
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On les amène voir un conseiller municipal austère, entre autres parce que la femme (voilée) a commandé des baklavas à la boulangerie et qu'ils conduisent une Hyundai, une voiture étrangère.
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Hathaway (more specifically, a blonde Hathaway) is pitch-perfect as a femme fatale, so much so that it makes me wonder why she hasn't gifted us a true noir before.
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When she arrives at her childhood home, she's greeted by her younger sister, Lyn — thin, ebullient, long hair flowing in boho perfection — a stark contrast to Emma's hard femme angles.
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Her blue-black lipstick, winged eyeliner, masc clothes with femme elements, bandanna, and hoops embrace the radical, community-oriented subculture she defends, and are emblematic of her hood-feminist aesthetic.
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It's not that it hasn't been around since… well, forever, but it's more present than ever in advertisements, everyday conversation, and the media (even beyond our femme-first R29 sphere).
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" She notes that listener observed that the series flipped the gender script on a familiar noir trope as the romance unfolds: "The femme fatale is a male in this story.
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Of those 300-plus members, 7% are Latinx, and 12% of the Pipeline Angels portfolio companies that have secured funding from our members have a Latina or Latinx femme founder.
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Spears' 2011 album Femme Fatale aged badly within a year of release, so it's easy to forget that for a mainstream release, it was kind of progressive for a minute.
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In doing so, O'Malley is able to have a conversation about femme visibility and even poke fun at some of the more rigid conventions through a careful curation of words.
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In a world where femme-identifying bodies are already seen as entitled public property, North should be allowed to grow up free to define her autonomy as she sees fit.
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L'Islam politique radical qui monte est sans doute le premier ennemi des valeurs humanistes européennes qui reposent sur l'individu libre et raisonné, l'égalité entre la femme et l'homme, et l'émancipation.
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So I spoke with certified personal finance coach and founder of the Fiscal Femme, Ashley Feinstein Gerstley, to see if she had any tips for chipping away at the stigma.
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Appel's collage "Visage de femme" (1961), perhaps my very favorite piece in the show, organizes a collision of mutable elements of the everyday with an excessive, unavoidable degradation of sensibility.
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After the crowd dispersed, what remained of the spectacle looked like a DIY film set for an intergalactic battle between James Bond, the Nazis, and some mutant-alien femme fatales.
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Disappointed by seeing a lack of femme, gender non-conforming, and queer artists in Calgary's experimental electronic scene, Heather Ross decided to take matters of representation into their own hands.
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"Femme C" Hanif, 25, who works as an organizer for the Asian-American community group CAAAV, performed at one of the first events and has been heavily involved ever since.
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But equally fascinating is the transformation of femme fatale Julia (Clare Higgins) as she evolves from proper suburbanite housewife to a serial murderer clearly having the time of her life.
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Hailing from Australia, Réalisation Par has won the hearts and closets of some of our most-watched style icons, some of whom are exceptionally loyal to the brand's femme dresses.
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It could not have been easy to grow up, as he did, a sickly femme kid with bad skin and big ambitions in a Pennsylvania industrial town during the Depression.
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But the clash of Will's "masc" personality against Jack's more "femme" one is still reflective of a prominent and enduring conflict in the gay community today, almost two decades later.
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I'd figured something was wrong with the app — or that people assumed I was there by mistake (I'm very femme-presenting and was very new to the queer dating thing).
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In a little over two hours, she goes from over-aged Rocky Mountain tomboy to highfalutin femme to a hero of the wrecked Titanic (yes, it was that Molly Brown).
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As a man in the makeup industry, never mind the music and modeling industries, he faced a lot of anti-gay and anti-femme-discrimination, violence, harassment, and unwarranted hatred.
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The Sotheby's leap in valuation to at least $223 million for "Femme et Oiseaux" was deemed too ambitious, and it sold unopposed to the guarantor for £226 million with fees.
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"Alphonse Mucha: Art Nouveau / Nouvelle Femme" is one of the inaugural exhibitions at the Poster House, a museum of poster design and history, which opened in Manhattan in late June.
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Baton Rouge residents, students from the area's colleges and universities white, black, femme, LGBTQIA+ activists from New York Houston, Dallas and San Francisco had converged on the southern state capital.
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Here the F.B.I. agent is a sensitive guy grieving over a bad breakup, and the C.I.A. agent is a sarcastic femme fatale-action figure with a fondness for enhanced interrogation.
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I ask why November and Cormack and Muir tell me it's because the summer festival lineup is so hectic, and they wanted Femme Wave to get the attention it deserves.
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This brings to mind Jessica Rabbit, the bodacious femme fatale in "Who Framed Roger Rabbit" who purrs "I'm just drawn that way" — yeah, but by whom, for whom and why?
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In a separate study, he analyzed 300 profiles from Jack'd, another dating app, and couldn't find a single one in which the user self-identified as femme or non-masculine.
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The femme fatale is already a very complicated archetype, and has been done many times and with great depth and skill, so I don't think I've added anything to it.
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Philip, a 17-year-old disabled, gender-nonconforming, femme model, models not to inspire or make people think, but because she loves fashion and wants to work in the industry.
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