femslasher

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noun

A person who writes femslash and/or supports female/female ships.

Scrabble 18

Meanings

nounfemslasher (plural femslashers)

plural femslashers

  1. slanglifestyleA person who writes femslash and/or supports female/female ships.

    The way that femslashers are treated in this fandom is disgusting.

    2019, anonymous, quoted in Ebony Elizabeth Thomas, The Dark Fantastic: Race and the Imagination from Harry Potter to the Hunger Games, page 99
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    Femslashers follow onscreen lesbian couples alongside their subtextual favorites and have often clamored for one of the latter characters to “come out” on television.

    2013, Julie Levin Russo, “Textual orientation: Queer female fandom online”, in Cynthia Carter, Linda Steiner, Lisa McLaughlin, editors, The Routledge Companion to Media & Gender, page 457

    This erasure was criticized by both femslashers and nonwhite fans of other genres, who pointed out how these selections of what is considered noteworthy in fan texts perpetuate and reinscribe erasures and biases within fan communities (allofthefeelings 2015).

    2018, Rukmini Pande, Squee from the Margins: Fandom and Race, page 165

Origin

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APA

femslasher. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/femslasher

MLA

“femslasher.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/femslasher. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

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