Close up of an arm with a labrys tattoo

High femme labrys (video essay exercise)

Made at Middlebury video essay camp (Scholarship in Sound and Image Workshop on Videographic Criticism) June 2025

For this Epigraph exercise, I used Bound (The Wachowski Sisters, 1996) and excerpts that mentioned ‘femme’ from Leslie Feinberg’s Stone Butch Blues (1993). My intention is to honour both of these works and their makers. I’ve also used excerpts from lesboqueer songs from the past few decades.