"Gee, I didn't get that vibe from you": articulating my own version of a femme lesbian existence.
This article aims to demystify the notion of a gay vibe from a femme queer woman's perspective. It contextualizes the author's experience of being read by the queer community as straight and of doing femme as a means for placing oneself on the gaydar screen while questioning the role of signifiers in creating a myth that sexuality is always concrete and permanent. This article goes further to argue that femme sexuality, because of its occasional invisible state, has the potential to move between ideological positions in order to destabilize them. This form of differential consciousness has subversive potential because it renders gaydar technology unsubstantial and broken.
VanNewkirk
Robbin
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Women's Studies Institute, Georgia State University, Atlanta GA, 30302-3969, USA. nvan1@student.gsu.edu
D005260:Female; D018452:Homosexuality, Female / Q000523:psychology*; D006801:Humans; D011582:Psychological Theory; D012650:Self Disclosure; D019529:Sexuality; D012919:Social Behavior; D012933:Social Identification; D012938:Social Perception