from Kris Kleindiesnt's "Would I Still Be a Lesbian If I Loved Someone Who Passed for Male?

[raybear]

(which I'm reading from the most recent issue of The Vital Voice)

"Yet as I stepeed out of the closet with joy into the arms of female-bodied lovers, the very language of liberation I was learning put me into a strait-jacket of another kind of gender confromity. Smashing patriarchy in those days meant we could do nothing that would be perceived as giving off sexual message to men. The party line was that the accoutrements of femininity shackled us to our oppression as women."

.....

"Femme is not at all about 'passing'. Nor is it a weaker position. Femme is about reclaiming the feminine from patriarchy, about flaunting female, about naming and claiming our desire. We are just as powerful, just as essential to this gender revolution as our butches and transpeople.....Misogyny has many faces. I understand this now."

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Where can I find a copy of this? Is "The Vital Voice" distributed anywhere around here? Because it sounds like it ROCKS.