{"id":69,"date":"2015-11-23T03:14:39","date_gmt":"2015-11-23T03:14:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/folio.mtholyoke.edu\/outreach\/?page_id=69"},"modified":"2015-11-23T03:14:39","modified_gmt":"2015-11-23T03:14:39","slug":"f","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/outreach\/a-z-glossary\/f\/","title":{"rendered":"F"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>F<\/b> is for <strong>FAMILIA<\/strong>, <strong>femme<\/strong>, <strong>Femmepowered<\/strong>, <strong>Frida Kahlo<\/strong>, <strong>FTM<\/strong>, F<strong>un Home<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>FAMILIA <\/strong>\u2013 \u201cFAMILIA is a closed network of support and activism for LGBTQ+ people of color at Mount Holyoke College\u201d \u2013<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/MHC-FAMILIA-347684342000379\/timeline\">MHC FAMILIA\u2019s Facebook<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>femme <\/strong>\u2013 \u201cFemme is purposeful, tender, fierce, and belongs to *anyone* touched by it. It informs and is informed by our other identities \u2013 including but not limited to race, body size, shape, gender, sexuality, ability, age, class, or community. This can connect into other areas of our life \u2013 like our relationships, art, activism, day-to-day presentation, and beyond. But perhaps the best thing about femme is that it\u2019s open-ended, alchemic, and creative \u2013 a creative force that gives us great power to draw upon while living in an often painfully racist, cissexist, femmephobic world. For some, femme is intentional, for others, it\u2019s an accident, and sometimes it\u2019s who we were right from the beginning. The point is \u2013 if \u201cfemme\u201d resonates with you in any way, as a word, for whatever reason right now, then it is yours. It is all of ours. Femme is who we are in our hearts\u201d. \u2013 2014 Femme Conference Steering Committee<\/p>\n<p><strong>Femmepowered<\/strong> \u2013 \u201cCreating and Supporting Femme Visibility at Mount Holyoke and Beyond.\u201d \u2013<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/MhcFemmepowered\/timeline\">MHC Femmepowered\u2019s Facebook<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Frida Kahlo <\/strong>(1907- 1954) \u2013 was a Mexican painter who was openly bisexual. She was known to have made love to many other famous artists such as Diego Rivera (her husband), Georgia O\u2019Keeffe and Chavela Vargas. (<a href=\"http:\/\/hubpages.com\/relationships\/When-Frida-Kahlo-Set-Her-Eyes-on-Josephine-Baker\">source<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p><strong>FTM<\/strong> \u2013 \u201c\u2019Female-to-Male\u2019 transgender person; Individuals who have started, are in the process, or have partially or fully transitioned from female to male. The FTM process does not necessarily include sex reassignment surgery.\u201d \u2013<a href=\"http:\/\/www.muhlenberg.edu\/main\/campuslife\/lgbt\/lgbtglossary.html\"> muhlenberg.edu<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Fun Home <\/strong>\u2013 a 2006 graphic memoir by Alison Bechdel, author of the comic strip Dykes to Watch Out For. It has recently been made into a Broadway musical.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>F is for FAMILIA, femme, Femmepowered, Frida Kahlo, FTM, Fun Home FAMILIA \u2013 \u201cFAMILIA is a closed network of support and activism for LGBTQ+ people of color at Mount Holyoke College\u201d \u2013MHC FAMILIA\u2019s Facebook femme \u2013 \u201cFemme is purposeful, tender, fierce, and belongs to *anyone* touched by it. It informs and is informed by our &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/outreach\/a-z-glossary\/f\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">F<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":0,"parent":20,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-69","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/outreach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/69","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/outreach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/outreach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/outreach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/136"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/outreach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/outreach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/69\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/outreach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/20"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/outreach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}