Femmephilia: Love Letters to Trans Mermaids, Queer Mothers, and Marilyn Monroe John Schu After years of being on

After years of being on my own

Each claims he's innocent

more potent than ever before

In rural Caball Hollow

Sloane's clothes don’t fit right

Femmephilia: Love Letters to Trans Mermaids, Queer Mothers, and Marilyn Monroe John Schu After years of being onFrom the author of Enemy Feminisms and Abolish the Family, an original diagnosis of femmephobia in our culture, and a vision of a life giving femme feminism for all. To be femme is to embody a dispossessed femininity, to be freighted with freedom, to refuse to be made proper or institutionalized. To love it is to embrace love for women (be they butch or not) in the broadest sense. In Femmephilia, Sophie Lewis makes the case for the vital importance of