Bossy Femme!

Objectifying, exotifying, sexist catcallers can just fuck off.
“Nice guys” who want you to smile and well-meaning relatives who think you should change your hair can fuck off too.
Shitty, fat shaming fashion mags can fuck off. Extreme makeover shows can fuck off.
People who associate queerness or political cred primarily with butchness can fuck off.
People who ask, “Can you still be a feminist if you wear lipstick?” can fuck off.

Femme is about being a babe inside of your own brain.

Denying that you are a hipster is basically the main hipster pastime, so writing an article dissing hipsters is basically like taking the entrance exam to hipsterhood.

We are two soon-to-be PhDs within Asian American Studies who want to think and write about what it means to be Asian American, but who struggle with the limits of academia, in the kinds of questions it allows and answers it provides. We are left wanting, as we struggle to reconcile our knowledges and our questions, our intellectual pursuits and our daily lives, our selves and our various communities. So we decided to start this blog, a space where the two of us as individuals and as conversation partners can reflect on our own experiences and our encounters with the social and cultural world. Here, we share our thoughts and feelings as we explore the possibilities and limits of our Asian American women of color queer feminist identities and politics, in the hopes that we can think (and write and act) our way out of the deathly conditions that structure our lives.