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General Slang
stem
· noun · lesbian
A Black or Latina lesbian who blends stud (masc) and femme presentation — a stud-femme.
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A lesbian who lives in the middle of the stud-femme spectrum — some days masculine, some days feminine, often both at once. The word is specific to Black and Latina queer culture, where stud and femme are the two ends and stem is the blend. It gave a lot of women language for 'I'm not all one thing.'
“She's not a hard stud and she's not a soft femme — she's a stem, blazer one day and lashes the next.”
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stem In A Sentence
She's not a hard stud and she's not a soft femme — she's a stem, blazer one day and lashes the next.
Origin & Usage
Portmanteau of 'stud' + 'femme'. Rooted in Black and Latina lesbian communities in the US; spread worldwide via TikTok as a label for those who sit between the two poles.
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