femslash

Definitions

Slash fiction that focuses on romantic and/or sexual relationships between female characters.

slang, uncountable

Examples

“The demographics of femslash are a little more complicated than regular slash; stories are written by straight and lesbian women and sometimes straight men.”

“One of the driving forces behind slash and femslash is the pervading heterosexism of commercial media – if television will not give⟳ us the due proportion of same-sex eroticism we are entitled to expect⟳, then we will make⟳ it for ourselves.”

“The point⟳ of slash is that the orientation of one or more canonical characters is changed, which is why slashing is strongest in fandoms where the source parades heteronormativity or machismo. Kirk/Spock, Bodie/Doyle, Aragorn/Boromir, Darcy/Bingley and Harry/Snape stories all slash their canons, but a story featuring, say⟳, Sebastian Flyte and Anthony Blanche in bed would not be slash, nor would a relationship between two lesbian characters in The L Word qualify⟳ as femslash.”

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