[LeftWriteFemme]

Originally Posted by dykeumentary

Good morning! This is a really interesting question to me today because I attended the Philadelphia qFest's event yesterday, featuring Rose Troche, who directed "Go Fish" as well as "The L Word".
http://www.qfest.com/film-details.cfm?c=266&id=10669

I know we've had good discussions on this site about media representation of Butch-Femme community, should we start a fresh thread about it? I'm curious about your thoughts. Its a fascinating question- Does less media representation make for less butches/Femmes? Or are we too small a "market" to drive development of media about us? Even at this queer film fest, it was slim pickings.

Originally Posted by Kobi

Im not sure I am understanding you here.

"Does less media representation make for less butches/femmes?" Are you suggesting there is a cause and effect between the media and people becoming butch/femme? Or are you saying the media could bring light to the sometimes invisible aspects of the butch/femme community? Or am I totally missing the point?

"Even at this queer film fest, it was slim pickings." Does this mean there was not as much of a visible presence of butch/femme in the way you expect it to look? Or, does it mean it was not well attended? Or, does it mean there was no one you gave thought to hitting on? LOL. Couldnt resist that one.

So my next question is do you think films like Pariah will encourage young Butches to come out?