‘H’ Beverley, from Chelmsford, Essex, is calling out high street retailers for appropriating the term ‘femme’.
Retailer worker wants brands to think twice before using the word 'femme'
H, a 25-year-old lesbian retail worker, acknowledges the term is also French for female, but she maintains that it is, ‘ours [the LGBTQ community] to use.’
A self-declared ‘aspirational celesbian’ (celebrity-lesbian, FYI), H has tweeted at H&M and Topshop this week saying, ‘the word femme has a history & meaning specific to LGBTQ+ people.’
‘It is ours to use – it isn’t yours to sell to straight people’.