The Palace Collective is Femme Led, heres why…
Femme is
An energy that we all possess and a choice to embody that energy in the way you move through the world and relate to the people around you.
Communication that centers care, support, and radical vulnerability as its foundation.
Prioritising empathy both towards yourself and towards others.
To actively dismantle domination culture, white supremacy, and heteropatriarchy.
Femme Led is
Creating hospitable grounds for when someone is missing the ability to reflect on their own mistakes, choosing to be constructive and have compassion.
Educational instead of punitive; drawing from the work of abolition and rehabilitation movements to make decisions and respond as a community.
We choose to teach those willing to learn, this does not imply that we are saviours.
Valuing the work that others do and vocalising it.
Actively empowering your team with agency, creative liberty, and a network of emotional labour that is based on reciprocity.
Being mindful of power dynamics that exist within a work environment and how that is influenced by a person’s particular social context.
Every voice being heard and valued, this does not imply that only the loudest voices are listened to.
“Work is love made visible” - Khalil Gibran
Resources:
“Femme: A person who has one of a million kinds of queer femme or feminine genders. Part of a multiverse of femme gendered people who have histories and communities in every culture since the dawn of time. A queer gender that often breaks away from white, able bodied, upper middle class, cis ideas of femininity, remixing it to harken to fat or working class or Black or brown or trans or non-binary or disabled or sex worker or other genders of femme to grant strength, vulnerability and power to the person embodying them. A revolutionary gender universe.” Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
“Our culture hates femininity, calls it weak. Our culture is inept at nurture and care, terrified of vulnerability and softness—all things that are squarely in the femme’s handbag. To indulge in femme culture is actually to be brave, and to have strength,” states Maurice Tracy (Donish, 2017)