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femslash

femslash noun: slash fiction that focuses on romantic and/or sexual relationships between female characters.

Noun

femslash (uncountable)

  1. (slang) Slash fiction that focuses on romantic and/or sexual relationships between female characters.
    • The demographics of femslash are a little more complicated than regular slash; stories are written by straight and lesbian women and sometimes straight men.2005, Phyllis M. Japp, Mark Meister, Debra K. Japp, Communication Ethics, Media & Popular Culture, page 178
    • 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.2010, Stacey Abbott, The Cult TV Book, page 245
    Synonyms:
    altfic, f/f slash, girlslash

Synonyms of femslash

Forms of femslash

alternative formfemmeslash

Origin of femslash

From fem + slash.

Words formed from femslash

Questions about femslash

What does femslash mean?
Femslash means slash fiction that focuses on romantic and/or sexual relationships between female characters.
What part of speech is femslash?
Femslash is a noun.

Words near femslash in the dictionary

  1. Femroe
  2. Femroth
  3. fems
  4. fems.
  5. FemShep
  6. femslash
  7. femslasher
  8. femslashers
  9. femspeak
  10. femsplain
  11. femsplained

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