Femmephilia: Love Letters to Trans Mermaids, Queer Mothers, and Marilyn Monroe Schools & Teaching and Palestine—Zaina Arafat’s debut novel

and Palestine—Zaina Arafat’s debut novel traces her protagonist’s progress from blushing teen to sought–after DJ and aspiring writer

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Through practice and normalizing imperfection

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Femmephilia: Love Letters to Trans Mermaids, Queer Mothers, and Marilyn Monroe Schools & Teaching and Palestine—Zaina Arafat’s debut novelFrom 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