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Resource List!

Through the course of my research i have come across so many interesting resources that i would love to share with people.

I've got main categories with a few highlights of my research and then a more  comprehensive list of things that i think think are linked to my work.

Be sure to check out the Zine Visuals page to see how this all materialised!

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ART

Bossé, M. and National Galleries of Scotland, 2023. The Queer Code: Secret Languages of LGBTQ+ Art. Available at: https://academy.artexplora.org/en/the-queer-code-secret-languages-of-lgbtq-art/ [Accessed 10 November 2025].

Fischer, H., 2008. Gay Semiotics [online]. Hal Fischer. Available at: https://www.gaysemiotics.com/gay-semiotics [Accessed 12 November 2025].

Jacolbe, J., 2019. Love, Obsession, and Sophie Calle [online]. JSTOR Daily. Available at: https://daily.jstor.org/love-obsession-and-sophie-calle/ [Accessed 11 November 2025].

McMillan, K., Violet delights: A queer history of purple [online]. Available at: https://www.vam.ac.uk/dundee/articles/violet-delights-a-queer-history-of-purple?srsltid=AfmBOortd8SjOppg6nae5IbbF_LzgbIxM2lnGHf47qjXLksX2jWDAmeq [Accessed 6 November 2025].

Murphy, G., 2024. LGBTQI+ symbols and their meanings [online blog]. People’s History Museum. Available at: https://phm.org.uk/blogposts/lgbt-symbols-meanings/ [Accessed 10 November 2025].

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FASHION

Ahluwalia, N., 2024. Damson Madder Is All Dressed up for FW24 [online]. Hypebae, Fashion. Available at: https://hypebae.com/2024/10/damson-madder-twirl-capsule-fw24-campaign [Accessed 2 November 2025].

 

Baker, E.-R., 2024. How Hyper-Feminine Fashion Became An Act Of Resistance [online]. Refinery29. Available at: https://www.refinery29.com/en-gb/hyper-feminine-girl-fashion-trend-2024 [Accessed 12 November 2025].

Carr, K., 2020. How queer culture has impacted fashion [online]. The Courier Online, (Online Discussion Forum/Blogs). Available at: https://www.thecourieronline.co.uk/how-queer-culture-has-impacted-fashion/ [Accessed 6 November 2025].

Marquez-Gallardo, S.L. and Rovira-Lorente, A., 2024. In Genderqueer Closets: Challenging Gender Binarism through Embodied Narratives of Affect and Style [online]. Fashion Theory, 28 (4), 437–460. Available at:

https://doi.org/10.1080/1362704X.2024.2357320 [Accessed 11 November 2025].

Riley, D., 2022. Cottage Core & Hyperfemininity [online]. Available at: https://tomes.vague.digital/presents/hyperfeminine-cottage-core [Accessed 18 October 2025].

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HYPER-FEMININITY

EDITOR, 2024. Notes on Femme Camp: the poetics of queer femininity in theatrical form [online]. DIVA Magazine. Available at: https://diva-magazine.com/2024/07/15/notes-on-femme-camp/ [Accessed 11 November 2025].

 

 

Giunta, K., 2016. Lesbian femininity: Understanding the legitimacy and erasure of queer femmes [online]. Archer Magazine. Available at: https://archermagazine.com.au/2016/11/lesbian-femininity-understanding-the-legitimacy-and-erasure-of-queer-femmes/ [Accessed 11 November 2025].

 

 

Guzman, L., 2022. Femininity in the Queer Community: An Analysis of Too Femme To Fit (Winter 2002) [online]. OUTWRITE. Available at: https://outwritenewsmag.org/2022/05/femininity-in-the-queer-community-an-analysis-of-too-femme-to-fit-winter-2002/ [Accessed 11 November 2025].

 

 

Manzella, S., 2024. What Does It Mean to Be Femme? | Them [online]. Them.Us, Gender And Identity. Available at: https://www.them.us/story/what-does-it-mean-to-be-femme [Accessed 11 November 2025].

 

 

Penn, D., 2024. ‘Thanks to Chappell Roan, hyper-feminine queer women can finally take up space’ [online]. GAY TIMES. Available at: https://www.gaytimes.com/culture/thanks-to-chappell-roan-hyper-feminine-queer-women-can-finally-take-up-space/ [Accessed 11 November 2025].

 

 

Swoffer, S., 2024. Hyper-femininity as radical resistance: re-envisaging the starlet through a feminist practice of solidarity in It’s Sophie! (2018) [online]. Studies in Theatre and Performance, 44 (1), 66–83. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1080/14682761.2024.2342654 [Accessed 11 November 2025].

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ICONS

Chang, R., 2024. 13 Powerful Marsha P. Johnson Quotes [online]. Biography. Available at: https://www.biography.com/activists/marsha-p-johnson-quotes [Accessed 10 November 2025].

 

 

Davies, D., 1968. A Photograph of Marsha P. Johnson Holding a Sign at a Picket - Digital Transgender Archive. Available at: https://www.digitaltransgenderarchive.net/files/w6634394x [Accessed 7 November 2025].

 

 

Gurung, S., 2024. How queer culture impacts pop culture [online]. Kathmandu Post. Available at: https://kathmandupost.com/art-culture/2024/04/06/how-queer-culture-impacts-pop-culture [Accessed 10 November 2025].

 

 

National Womens History Museum, Marsha P. Johnson [online]. Available at: https://www.womenshistory.org/education-resources/biographies/marsha-p-johnson [Accessed 27 October 2025].

 

 

Penn, D., 2024. ‘Thanks to Chappell Roan, hyper-feminine queer women can finally take up space’ [online]. GAY TIMES. Available at: https://www.gaytimes.com/culture/thanks-to-chappell-roan-hyper-feminine-queer-women-can-finally-take-up-space/ [Accessed 11 November 2025].

ALL REFERENCES

Ahluwalia, N., 2024. Damson Madder Is All Dressed up for FW24 [online]. Hypebae, Fashion. Available at: https://hypebae.com/2024/10/damson-madder-twirl-capsule-fw24-campaign [Accessed 2 November 2025].

 

Baggs, M., 2018. Code-switching: How BAME and LGBT people ‘blend in’ [online]. BBC News. Available at: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/newsbeat-45978770 [Accessed 18 October 2025].

 

Baker, E.-R., 2024. How Hyper-Feminine Fashion Became An Act Of Resistance [online]. Refinery29. Available at: https://www.refinery29.com/en-gb/hyper-feminine-girl-fashion-trend-2024 [Accessed 12 November 2025].

 

Beyer, J., 2025. Antigender Fashion The Possibilities of Gender-Fluid and Non-Binary Fashion Design [eBook]. London: Bloomsbury Academic. Available at: https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/105396 [Accessed 17 October 2025].

 

Bolitho, S., 2016. Tate Modern Highlights. London: Tate Publishing.

 

Bossé, M. and National Galleries of Scotland, 2023. The Queer Code: Secret Languages of LGBTQ+ Art. Available at: https://academy.artexplora.org/en/the-queer-code-secret-languages-of-lgbtq-art/ [Accessed 10 November 2025].

 

Boyle, C., 2023. Design and the LGBT Rights Movement - The Design of Pride [online blog]. Genesis. Available at: https://wearegenesis.co.uk/the-design-of-pride-the-importance-of-graphic-design-to-the-lgbt-rights-movement/ [Accessed 10 November 2025].

 

Camille, S., 2024. Redefining Hyperfemininity: Claiming Femme Power through Love and Celebration  (Femme). OCAD University. Available at: chrome-extension://efaidnbmnnnibpcajpcglclefindmkaj/https://openresearch.ocadu.ca/id/eprint/4483/1/Stephanie%20Camille%20Thesis%202024%20Hyperfemininity.pdf [Accessed 17 October 2025].

 

Carr, K., 2020. How queer culture has impacted fashion [online]. The Courier Online, (Online Discussion Forum/Blogs). Available at: https://www.thecourieronline.co.uk/how-queer-culture-has-impacted-fashion/ [Accessed 6 November 2025].

 

Chang, R., 2024. 13 Powerful Marsha P. Johnson Quotes [online]. Biography. Available at: https://www.biography.com/activists/marsha-p-johnson-quotes [Accessed 10 November 2025].

 

Cheves, A. and Lopez, Q., 2025. What Does ‘Queer’ Mean? 9 LGBTQ+ People Explain How They Love, Hate, and Understand the Word | Them [online]. them.us. Available at: https://www.them.us/story/what-does-queer-mean [Accessed 7 November 2025].

 

Davies, D., 1968. A Photograph of Marsha P. Johnson Holding a Sign at a Picket - Digital Transgender Archive. Available at: https://www.digitaltransgenderarchive.net/files/w6634394x [Accessed 7 November 2025].

 

EDITOR, 2024a. Notes on Femme Camp: the poetics of queer femininity in theatrical form [online]. DIVA Magazine. Available at: https://diva-magazine.com/2024/07/15/notes-on-femme-camp/ [Accessed 11 November 2025].

 

EDITOR, 2024b. What does “culturally queer” mean? [online blog]. Available at: https://diva-magazine.com/2024/08/28/what-does-culturally-queer-mean/ [Accessed 7 November 2025].

 

Fischer, H., 2008. Gay Semiotics [online]. Hal Fischer. Available at: https://www.gaysemiotics.com/gay-semiotics [Accessed 12 November 2025].

 

Giunta, K., 2016. Lesbian femininity: Understanding the legitimacy and erasure of queer femmes [online]. Archer Magazine. Available at: https://archermagazine.com.au/2016/11/lesbian-femininity-understanding-the-legitimacy-and-erasure-of-queer-femmes/ [Accessed 11 November 2025].

 

Gottlieb, I., 2019. Seeing Gender: An illustrated guide to identity and expression. First Chronicle Books LLC paperback. San Francisco, California: Chronicle Books LLC.

 

Gurung, S., 2024. How queer culture impacts pop culture [online]. Kathmandu Post. Available at: https://kathmandupost.com/art-culture/2024/04/06/how-queer-culture-impacts-pop-culture [Accessed 10 November 2025].

 

Guzman, L., 2022. Femininity in the Queer Community: An Analysis of Too Femme To Fit (Winter 2002) [online]. OUTWRITE. Available at: https://outwritenewsmag.org/2022/05/femininity-in-the-queer-community-an-analysis-of-too-femme-to-fit-winter-2002/ [Accessed 11 November 2025].

 

Hale, S.E. and Ojeda, T., 2018. Acceptable femininity? Gay male misogyny and the policing of queer femininities. LSE Online, (Generic).

 

Healy, C.M., 2023. Girlhood. London: Tate Publishing.

 

Holden, M., 2019. The Exhausting Work of LGBTQ Code-Switching [online]. VICE. Available at: https://www.vice.com/en/article/the-exhausting-work-of-lgbtq-code-switching/? [Accessed 11 November 2025].

 

Jacolbe, J., 2019. Love, Obsession, and Sophie Calle [online]. JSTOR Daily. Available at: https://daily.jstor.org/love-obsession-and-sophie-calle/ [Accessed 11 November 2025].

 

Jónasdóttir, A.G., Bryson, V. and Jones, K.B., eds, 2010. Sexuality, Gender and Power: Intersectional and Transnational Perspectives. New York: Routledge. 10.4324/9780203834916.

 

Jones, G., 1992. Sophie Calle: Other People’s Lives [eBook]. Available at: https://www.frieze.com/article/sophie-calle-other-peoples-lives [Accessed 11 November 2025].

 

Juanzhi, L. et al., 2025. The contribution of body perception to self-identity: an event-related potential study. Maastricht University.

 

Kerr, H.-Y., 2017a. Envisioning the Bubble: Creating and Consuming Lifestyles through Magazines in the Culture of the Japanese Bubble Economy (1986-1991). (Generic).

 

Kerr, H.-Y., 2017b. The Well-Travelled Woman: Hanako Magazine and the Internationalised Women of the Japanese Bubble Economy What was the Bubble Economy? (Generic).

 

Kerr, H.-Y., 2016. What is kawaii – and why did the world fall for the ‘cult of cute’? [online]. The Conversation, Arts and Culture. Available at: http://theconversation.com/what-is-kawaii-and-why-did-the-world-fall-for-the-cult-of-cute-67187 [Accessed 12 November 2025].

 

Khanna, G., 2021a. “Am I Queer Enough?” An Essay Dissecting My Queer Imposter Syndrome [online]. Gaysi. Available at: https://gaysifamily.com/lifestyle/am-i-queer-enough-an-essay-dissecting-my-queer-imposter-syndrome/ [Accessed 12 November 2025].

 

King, E., 2023. Rules to Dress by. V&A Gabrielle Chanel : Fashion Manifesto, (62), 28–40.

 

Lack, J., 2024. Protest Art. USA: Thames and Hudson Ltd.

 

Lenso, 2025. Is There a Rise of Toxic Femininity in Gay Spaces? [online blog]. Prism & Pen. Available at: https://medium.com/prismnpen/is-there-a-rise-of-toxic-femininity-in-gay-spaces-da3b782b087f [Accessed 11 November 2025].

 

Lever, S., 2023. “Power Dressing”: Hyper-Feminine Performance and the Professionally Self-Sexualised Female Body [online]. ZoneModa Journal, 13 (1), 51–64. Available at: https://zmj.unibo.it/article/view/17116 [Accessed 11 November 2025].

 

Manzella, S., 2024. What Does It Mean to Be Femme? | Them [online]. Them.Us, Gender And Identity. Available at: https://www.them.us/story/what-does-it-mean-to-be-femme [Accessed 11 November 2025].

 

Marquez-Gallardo, S.L. and Rovira-Lorente, A., 2024. In Genderqueer Closets: Challenging Gender Binarism through Embodied Narratives of Affect and Style [online]. Fashion Theory, 28 (4), 437–460. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1080/1362704X.2024.2357320 [Accessed 11 November 2025].

 

McCann, H., 2018. A Theory of Femininity [online blog]. BINARYTHIS. Available at: https://binarythis.com/2018/08/29/a-theory-of-femininity/ [Accessed 11 November 2025].

 

McCann, H., 2023. Bimbo Feminism: Why I’m Excited About the Barbie Movie | BINARYTHIS [online blog]. Available at: https://binarythis.com/2023/04/06/bimbo-feminism-why-im-excited-about-the-barbie-movie/ [Accessed 11 November 2025].

 

McCann, H., 2017. Give Drag a Chance [online blog]. BINARYTHIS. Available at: https://binarythis.com/2017/06/24/give-drag-a-chance/ [Accessed 11 November 2025].

 

McCann, H., 2016. Queering and Queening Femininity [online blog]. BINARYTHIS. Available at: https://binarythis.com/2016/02/09/queering-and-queening-femininity/ [Accessed 11 November 2025].

 

McMillan, K., Violet delights: A queer history of purple [online]. Available at: https://www.vam.ac.uk/dundee/articles/violet-delights-a-queer-history-of-purple?srsltid=AfmBOortd8SjOppg6nae5IbbF_LzgbIxM2lnGHf47qjXLksX2jWDAmeq [Accessed 6 November 2025].

 

Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, 2025. Definition of FEMME. Merriam-Webster. Available at: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/femme [Accessed 18 October 2025].

 

Miles, 2024a. Code-switching at work: the hidden tax on LGBTQ+ employees [online blog]. Audeliss. Available at: https://www.audeliss.com/en/code-switching-at-work-the-hidden-tax-on-lgbtq-employees/ [Accessed 6 November 2025].

 

Miles, 2024b. Code-switching at work: the hidden tax on LGBTQ+ employees [online blog]. Audeliss. Available at: https://www.audeliss.com/en/code-switching-at-work-the-hidden-tax-on-lgbtq-employees/ [Accessed 18 October 2025].

 

Morris, N. and Summers, M., 2024. How does code switching affect members of the LGBTQ+ community in architecture practices? [online]. RIBA Professional Features, (Generic). Available at: https://www.riba.org/work/insights-and-resources/professional-features/lgbtqplus-pride-month-and-code-switching/ [Accessed 18 October 2025].

 

Murphy, G., 2024. LGBTQI+ symbols and their meanings [online blog]. People’s History Museum. Available at: https://phm.org.uk/blogposts/lgbt-symbols-meanings/ [Accessed 10 November 2025].

 

Myette, A., 2019. FLUID: A CRITICAL EXAMINATION OF QUEER ARTISTS AND THEIR CLOTHING CHOICES by. Ryerson University.

 

National Womens History Museum, Marsha P. Johnson [online]. Available at: https://www.womenshistory.org/education-resources/biographies/marsha-p-johnson [Accessed 27 October 2025].

 

Owen-Rowlands, L., 2021. Sophie Calle and the Art of Leaving a Trace | The New Yorker [online]. The New Yorker. Available at: https://www.newyorker.com/books/under-review/sophie-calle-and-the-art-of-leaving-a-trace [Accessed 11 November 2025].

 

Penn, D., 2024. ‘Thanks to Chappell Roan, hyper-feminine queer women can finally take up space’ [online]. GAY TIMES. Available at: https://www.gaytimes.com/culture/thanks-to-chappell-roan-hyper-feminine-queer-women-can-finally-take-up-space/ [Accessed 11 November 2025].

 

Prince, L.-L., 2023. Queer Femme Drag Futures [online]. Nordic Journal of African Studies, 32 (3), 206–228. Available at: https://www.njas.fi/njas/article/view/1086 [Accessed 11 November 2025].

 

Puig, K., 2017. The Synthetic Hyper Femme: On Sex Dolls, Fembots, and the Futures of Sex. M.A., San Diego State University. Available at: https://www.proquest.com/docview/1987941279/abstract/5B3CC8328D424A3FPQ/1 [Accessed 11 November 2025].

 

Q, C., 2018. Hal Fischer: Gay Semiotics [eBook]. Available at: https://queerculturalcenter.org/gay-semiotics-hal-fischer/ [Accessed 10 November 2025].

 

Reddy-Best, K.L., 2016. A Queer History of Fashion: From the Closet to the Catwalk [online]. Dress, 42 (1), 61–63. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1080/03612112.2016.1151671 [Accessed 11 November 2025].

 

Reddy-Best, K.L. and Goodin, D., 2020. Queer Fashion and Style: Dress: Vol 46 , No 2 - Get Access [online]. Queer Fashion and Style. Available at: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03612112.2019.1686875 [Accessed 11 November 2025].

 

Reddy-Best, K.L. and Jones, K.B., 2020. Is this what a lesbian looks like? Lesbian fashion and the fashionable lesbian in the United States press, 1960s to 2010s [online]. Journal of Lesbian Studies, 24 (2), 159–171. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1080/10894160.2019.1685816 [Accessed 11 November 2025].

 

Reddy-Best, K.L. and Pedersen, E.L., 2015. The relationship of gender expression, sexual identity, distress, appearance, and clothing choices for queer women [online]. International Journal of Fashion Design, Technology and Education, 8 (1), 54–65. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1080/17543266.2014.958576 [Accessed 11 November 2025].

 

Reddy-Best, K.L. and Romans, M., 2025. Contemporary queer fashion media as personal liberations: Qwear, digital media and twenty-first-century queer fashion shows [online]. Available at: https://intellectdiscover.com/content/journals/10.1386/fspc_00296_1 [Accessed 11 November 2025].

 

Riley, D., 2022. Cottage Core & Hyperfemininity [online]. Available at: https://tomes.vague.digital/presents/hyperfeminine-cottage-core [Accessed 18 October 2025].

 

Ryan, H., 2017. Power to the People: Exploring Marsha P. Johnson’s Queer Liberation [online]. Available at: https://www.out.com/out-exclusives/2017/8/24/power-people-exploring-marsha-p-johnsons-queer-liberation [Accessed 26 October 2025].

 

Sarah-Jane, L., 2019. That’s So Vogue: The Silent Influence of Queer Culture on, well, Everything [online blog]. Medium. Available at: https://medium.com/@laurensarahjane/thats-so-vogue-the-silent-influence-of-queer-culture-on-well-everything-17a19dd3a1a9 [Accessed 7 November 2025].

 

Schwartz, A.J., 2020. Low Femme, Low Theory: An Ethno-Archive of Femme Internet Culture [online]. Available at: http://hdl.handle.net/10315/37720 [Accessed 11 November 2025].

 

Silkwood, L., 2024. Why I (Queer) Code-Switch at Work [online blog]. Prism & Pen. Available at: https://medium.com/prismnpen/why-i-queer-code-switch-at-work-ef0a975ae6a3 [Accessed 11 November 2025].

 

Supit, M., 2024. Dressed to Oppress: The Societal Implications of Online Fast Fashion Trends on Gender, Race, and the Environment BA Thesis. Tilburg University.

 

Swoffer, S., 2024. Hyper-femininity as radical resistance: re-envisaging the starlet through a feminist practice of solidarity in It’s Sophie! (2018) [online]. Studies in Theatre and Performance, 44 (1), 66–83. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1080/14682761.2024.2342654 [Accessed 11 November 2025].

 

Talusan, M., 2016. Queer Culture in the Age of Transgender Disruption [online]. VICE. Available at: https://www.vice.com/en/article/queer-culture-in-the-age-of-transgender-disruption/ [Accessed 7 November 2025].

 

Truffaut-Wong, O., 2025. Chappell Roan sends a message to Trans fans at the 2025 Grammys [online]. Cosmopolitan. Available at: https://www.cosmopolitan.com/uk/entertainment/a63647081/chappell-roan-trans-rights-message-grammys/ [Accessed 12 November 2025].

 

Vänskä, A., 2014. From Gay to Queer—Or, Wasn’t Fashion Always Already a Very Queer Thing? [online]. Fashion Theory, 18 (4), 447–463. Available at: https://doi.org/10.2752/175174114X13996533400079 [Accessed 11 November 2025].

 

Wiens, B.I. and McWebb, A., 2025. #Girlhood: Why Memetic Aesthetics of Hyperfemininity Matter for Feminist Media Studies [online]. Journal of Femininities, 2 (1), 87–113. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1163/29501229-bja10014 [Accessed 11 November 2025].

 

Worthen, M.G.F., 2023. Queer identities in the 21st century: Reclamation and stigma [online]. Current Opinion in Psychology, 49, 101512. Available at: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352250X22002330 [Accessed 10 November 2025].

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