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English citations of kiki
- 1992, Discourse: Berkeley Journal for Theoretical Studies in Media and Culture, volume 15, page 184:
- For example, Faderman views butches, femmes, and kikis as roles imitative of heterosexual models and not part of primary, unique lesbian sociosexual identities. […] In the 1950s and 1960s, this sexual identity is complicated by the flourishing of butch and femme roles, as well as […] . For their part, butches and femmes found these women “kiki” – neither butch nor femme, women who didn't know what they really wanted, women who were giving in to society's expectations regarding dress or behavior. […]
- 1994, Patrick Califia, Public Sex: The Culture of Radical Sex, [age 181:
- Today lesbian butch / femme is acquiring more flexibility than it had in the '70s when I came out. […] The butches I met in Perky's would have laughed an idea like that right out the door. But then, those women were heavy mothers who would have thought Beebo Brinker was a kiki bra burner.
- 2012, Lillian Faderman, Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers: A History of Lesbian Life in Twentieth-Century America, Columbia University Press (→ISBN), page 168:
- Although the issue seldom led to violence, butches and femmes were often adamant about rejecting what they called the "confused" behavior of "kiki" women, those who would not choose a role. […] Another New England woman recalls that “kiki” also referred to two butches or two femmes who were lovers. They often had to […] One denizen of the Village says that already by the 1940s one was expected
- 2012, Lillian Faderman, Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers: A History of Lesbian Life in Twentieth-Century America, Columbia University Press (→ISBN), page 168:
- 2014, Nadine Hubbs, Rednecks, Queers, and Country Music, Univ of California Press (→ISBN), page 146:
- The array of erotic personas included male fairies, rough trade, jockers, wolves, and husbands and female femmes, butches, kikis, ladies, studs, and bulldaggers.
- 2016, Abbie E. Goldberg, The SAGE Encyclopedia of LGBTQ Studies, SAGE Publications (→ISBN), page 174:
- Lesbian and bisexual women's working-class communities were organized around butch–femme identities; an individual who did not identify within either role was referred to somewhat pejoratively as a “kiki.” Butch–femme identities served as […]