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There’s a plea in there — not for genderlessness, exactly, but for a freedom of narrative movement that femaleness, as conventionally written, impairs.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 2, 2023
I leveraged anything in my power — my whiteness, my femaleness — to diffuse the scene.
From Salon ● Nov. 6, 2021
This is a film about class and gender and femaleness and youth and unwanted attention that makes the smallest moments come alive with humanity.
From Washington Times ● Mar. 10, 2020
It’s very performative of, I wouldn’t say femininity, but just, like, femaleness in a way which feels very badass to me.
From Slate ● Oct. 25, 2018
Where before we Comanches had simply stared at her femaleness, we now glared at it She smiled back at us.
From "Nine Stories" by J. D. Salinger
