high femme's first week!

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Hi!!!!!!!! 

Thank you so much for subscribing to High Femme in our very first week, we’re so happy to have you with us from the very beginning. 

This month’s goal (from August 15 - September 15) is to release a new piece every day. Here’s what’s on our site so far!

“How Far You Can Go: The Stretch of Love Lies Bleeding” by Veronica Phillips. 

“This idea of a stretch is a sexy, squirmy breadcrumb that can be followed spiritually throughout the rest of Love Lies Bleeding.” (image credit: A24)

“Notes on the Piano Teacher” by Veronica Phillips

"While Walter’s actions are a nonconsensual perverting of Erika’s daydreamy perversion, The Piano Teacher creates, in a sense, the “purest hit” of Erika’s fantasy." (image credit: Kino International)

A review of The Untamed by Soraya Sebghati

"Would you rather conform to a societal/cultural norm, or would you rather the true pleasure that comes with freedom?" (image credit: Bord Cadre films)

A review of Challengers by Veronica Phillips

"This film isn't sexy like sex as much as it is sexy like an airbrushed magazine centerfold." (image credit: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer/Amazon)

“But I’m a Christian Camp Counselor: Finding Queer Community in Unexpected Places” by Sam Goodyear

"But I’m a Cheerleader came to me in all its sugar-sweet, pastel-coated glory at exactly the moment I needed it." (image credit: Lions Gate Films)

A review of Lisa Frankenstein by Leah Carlson-Downie

"It’s rare for any teen paranormal romance to let its freak flag fly quite like this one does." (image credit: Focus Features)

“The Bikeriders: Edge of Desire” by August Hammel

“The film itself is handsomely made and earns its stripes with very fine craft and production value, but Nichols just misses the mark of saying anything quite so interesting.” (image credits: Focus Features)

High Femme has so many people to thank for even coming to the sweet little indie fruition it has already. Both the writers already published plus a handful to come were patient and kind through endless timeline shifts and scattered plans. Our iconic logo was designed by the supremely talented Audrey Durazzo, whose work (and contact info for commission!) can be found on her Instagram @/duraznart. And a million thank yous to Mariana over at Screen Speck for sitting with me over Zoom and allowing me to ask her all sorts of questions and build this little site from scratch.

For all of this to work, we do have to spend just a little time begging you for monetary support if you have any to spare. 

In Julia Cameron’s The Artist Way, she writes about a sticky note she has by her desk that reads “Leap, and the net will appear.” This is exactly what I am doing with High Femme. We are netless and relying entirely on hopes of getting some donations so that we can write about tentacle sex movies and general horndoggery without any grubby censorship industry hands on us. (We also are saving up for an LLC for those same reasons on a legal front!). 

Our big goals for the site in the first stages are:

1. Paying our writers within a reasonable timeline. 

2. Covering the costs of the site running.

3. Obtaining an LLC.

If you have even a couple of bucks to spare, we would be so grateful. You can donate at our Ko-Fi here: https://ko-fi.com/highfemme

Thank you again for being here! We will see you next week!