Definitions

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  • noun A subgenre of slash fan fiction focusing on romantic and/or sexual relationships between female characters.

Etymologies

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fem +‎ slash

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Examples

  • I expect undertones of femslash in the second season!

    LEVERAGE: No Justice, No Peace Rogers 2009

  • Eight are gen, one is canon femslash, three are het mixed with slash or femslash, and only two are slash.

    December 31st, 2005 2005

  • Rei: Yuri is the term for femslash, girl-on-girl relationships.

    HH Com 20 Miss Snark 2006

  • Maggie Q femslash (Zhen/Mai/Charlene misses Kat) * this is a three way Mission Impossible 3 Naked Weapon

    WN.com - Business News 2010

  • Maggie Q femslash (Zhen/Mai/Charlene misses Kat) * this is a three way Mission Impossible 3 Naked Weapon Live Free or Die Hard crossover* Mai, the villain from Die Hard once had a lover name Kat who was killed when Mai was younger.

    WN.com - Business News 2010

  • YAY for the femslash fanfictions, because most of the fanfics out there are about Snape / Harry, Snape / Hermoine and while I LOVE Snape I would rather read some femslash!

    AfterEllen.com - Because visibility matters 2009

  • The only slash panel I got to at Redemption, the dominant narrative had even got there: two people on the panel, one of them a straight man, who began the discussion by saying he didn't know much about slash but he wanted to know where the femslash was.

    Feminist SF - The Blog! 2009

  • The only slash panel I got to at Redemption, the dominant narrative had even got there: two people on the panel, one of them a straight man, who began the discussion by saying he didn’t know much about slash but he wanted to know where the femslash was.

    Quoting: I will not Die For Your Amusement 2009

  • The relatively large number of slash fanfics written by women and the almost complete absence of femslash fanfics written by men is also evidence that the driving forces beind the two phenomena are not symmetrical. amanohyo - that definitely rounds out the picture, thank you! amanohyo and madinscriber -- I'd also add to that the fact that a lot of * mainstream* porn shows some pretty serious feminine vulnerability (I'm not even talking bdsm stuff -- just plain ole regular pr0n is in many ways about domination, of which vulnerability is an integral part -- can't dominate someone who isn't vulnerable).

    FlickFilosopher.com 2009

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  • Pretty much any role Uma Thurman's been in.

    August 4, 2008

  • Except for all those roles she did before Tarantino.

    August 4, 2008