General
futch
What does futch mean?
The sweet spot between femme and butch. A sapphic woman (or fem-leaning nonbinary person) who carries both energies at once, or flips between them depending on the day. Think soft and androgynous rather than fully one lane. Less a fence-sit, more a third option that owns itself.
"She's full femme at brunch and total futch by Friday night, flannel and all."
Origin
A blend of 'femme' and 'butch'. Circulating in queer women's circles since the early 1990s during the butch-femme revival. Got a mainstream bump when firefighter Dani Campbell used it on MTV's 'A Shot at Love with Tila Tequila' (2007) and claimed to have coined it, though it predated her by over a decade.
Frequently asked questions
Is futch the same as androgynous?
Close but not identical. Androgynous is broad; futch is specifically the femme-butch middle ground inside queer women's culture.
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