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!

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].

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].

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].

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].
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