femme

Some days it was closer to my ’90s queer teen style and others a ’50s-inspired high femme.

Some days I returned to my high femme staples, but only when it suited my mood.

“It felt good to hear music that was current to me from Mexico City,” she says, adding that she also felt safe as a queer femme — a priority for the founders.

Later that year, she explained her situation in an email to the French magazine Femme Actuelle: “My physical suffering has already been so terrible that I am afraid that death will force me to go through even more physical suffering.”

The bookshelves are organized with titles such as “Femme Labor,” “Abolish Prisons,” “Español / Spanish” and “Settler Colonialism in Occupied Americas.”