A FemmeNist ManiPedifesto. (April 2015)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Lerum, Kari
• Is Part Of: Cultural studies, critical methodologies. Volume 15:Number 2(2015:Apr.)
• Page Start: 156
• Page End: 162
• Publication Date: 2015-04
• Subjects: gender identity -- femme -- feminism -- intimacy -- workers rights; Culture -- Research -- Periodicals; Popular culture -- Research -- Periodicals; 306.05
• DOI: 10.1177/1532708614562886
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1532-7086

Abstract

This is an autoethnography about the role of nail salons in relation to my own evolving feminist and femme consciousness. Through a story of desire, grief, isolation, and recuperation, I explore the ways that the development of my sexual and gender identities relies on women's intimacy within and across lines of commodification, race, class, and sexuality. In so doing, I attempt to reconcile my desire for high femme signifiers with working-class, anti-racist, and anti-colonialist solidarity, to articulate what I term a FemmeNist consciousness .