Just Femme & Dandy

just femme & dandy is a biannual literary & arts magazine for and by lgbtqia+ on fashion. we hope to fulfill a space in the literary world that has yet to exist, and we hope to celebrate the queer community, who have long since coded itself with its bodies when it has been dangerous to identify solely with words. until recently, we could only find a handful of models within popular culture and the public imagination to inform our own aesthetic choices, and so the styles (and the art) we don and make operate as a patchwork quilt, collaged together with vintage and thrift store finds, our sister or mother's lipstick, our father's neckties. we want to offer a space for the lgbtqia+ community, but one that privileges underrepresented and marginalized writers and artists. just as we transcend the lines between gender, sexuality, aesthetic, and style, just femme & dandy wants to offer a home for works that are categorized by the interests of fashion and style rather than aesthetic genre, an