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{{Short description|Umbrella term for women loving women}}
{{Short description|Umbrella term for women loving women}}
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{{Other uses|Sapphic (disambiguation)}}
{{Other uses|Sapphic (disambiguation)}}
{{Infobox sexuality
{{Infobox sexuality|etymology=[[Sappho]] + [[-ism]] or [[-ic]]|derivatives=[[:wikt:sapphist|Sapphist]]|subcategories={{hlist|[[Lesbian]]|[[m-spec]] women}}|full_definition=|flag=Sapphic Flag alternate with violet.svg|flag_name=Sapphic [[pride flag]]<ref>{{Cite web |title=Symbols |url=https://queercafe.net/symbols.htm |access-date=2024-04-28 |website=queercafe.net}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Elástica explica: termos juvélicos |url=https://elastica.abril.com.br/especiais/termos-juvelicos-genero-atracao-aquileano-safica/ |access-date=2024-04-28 |website=Elástica – Todos do mesmo lado |language=pt-BR}}</ref>|abbreviations={{hlist|QLW|WLW<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Llewellyn |first=Anna |date=2022-11-10 |title="A Space Where Queer Is Normalized": The Online World and Fanfictions as Heterotopias for WLW |url=https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00918369.2021.1940012 |journal=[[Journal of Homosexuality]] |language=en |volume=69 |issue=13 |pages=2348–2369 |doi=10.1080/00918369.2021.1940012 |pmid=34185633 |issn=0091-8369}}</ref>}}|title=Sapphic}}
| etymology = [[Sappho]] + [[-ism]] or [[wikt:-ic|-ic]]|derivatives=[[:wikt:sapphist|Sapphist]]<ref>https://www.oed.com/dictionary/sapphist_n?tl=true</ref>|subcategories={{hlist|[[Lesbian]]|[[m-spec]] women}}
| pronunciation = /ˈsæfɪk/
| full_definition=
| flag = Sapphic Flag alternate with violet.svg
| flag_alt = Sapphic Flag made of three equal-sized verticle stripes of pink, white, pink, with a small five petalled flower in the centre of the white stripe
| flag_name = Sapphic [[pride flag]]<ref>{{Cite web |title=Symbols|url=https://queercafe.net/symbols.htm |access-date=2024-04-28|website= Queer Cafe}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Elástica explica: termos juvélicos|url=https://elastica.abril.com.br/especiais/termos-juvelicos-genero-atracao-aquileano-safica/ |access-date=2024-04-28 |website=Elástica – Todos do mesmo lado |language=pt}}</ref>
| abbreviations = {{hlist|QLW|WLW<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Llewellyn |first=Anna |date=2022-11-10 |title='A Space Where Queer Is Normalized': The Online World and Fanfictions as Heterotopias for WLW |journal=[[Journal of Homosexuality]] |language=en |volume=69 |issue=13 |pages=2348–2369 |doi=10.1080/00918369.2021.1940012 |doi-access=free |pmid=34185633 |issn=0091-8369}}</ref>}}
| title = Sapphic}}
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'''''Sapphism''''' is an [[umbrella term]] for any [[woman]] [[Interpersonal attraction|attracted]] to women or in a [[Interpersonal relationship|relationship]] with another woman, regardless of their [[sexual orientations]], and encompassing the [[romantic love]] between women.


The term is inclusive of individuals who are [[lesbian]], [[bisexual]], [[pansexual]], [[omnisexual]], [[aromantic]], [[Asexuality|asexual]], or [[queer]]. There are also sapphic people who are [[non-binary]] or [[genderqueer]].<ref>{{Cite thesis |last=Sisko |first=Adriana |date=2021-01-01 |title="My Gender is Lesbian": Community Building and the Endurance of the Lesbian in Queer Times |url=https://uknowledge.uky.edu/gws_etds/7 |journal=Theses and Dissertations--Gender and Women's Studies |doi=10.13023/etd.2021.481}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last=Hord |first=Levi CR |date=September 2022 |title=Specificity without identity: Articulating post-gender sexuality through the "non-binary lesbian" |url=http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1363460720981564 |journal=Sexualities |language=en |volume=25 |issue=5–6 |pages=615–637 |doi=10.1177/1363460720981564 |issn=1363-4607}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last=Robles |first=Breanna Raquel |date=2019 |title=A Soft Epilogue: LGBTQ Fanworks as Reparative Reading |url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/337904799 |journal=California State University}}</ref>
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'''Sapphism''' is an [[umbrella term]] for any [[woman]] [[Interpersonal attraction|attracted]] to women or in a [[Interpersonal relationship|relationship]] with another woman, encompassing the [[sexual orientations]] and the [[romantic love]] between women.

The term is inclusive of individuals who are [[lesbian]], [[bisexual]], [[pansexual]], [[aromantic]], [[asexual]], or [[queer]]. There are also sapphic people who are [[non-binary]] or [[genderqueer]].


== Etymology ==
== Etymology ==
[[File:Simonet - Safo.jpg|thumb|right|250px|''Sappho'', by [[Enrique Simonet]].]]
The term is being used since around 1890.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Sapphic Definition & Meaning |url=https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sapphic |access-date=2024-04-28 |website=[[Merriam-Webster]] |date=15 March 2024 |language=en}}</ref> The term derives from [[Sappho]], a Greek [[poetess]] whose verses mainly focused on love between women and her own homosexual passions.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Torres |first=Bolívar |date=2021-06-26 |title=Identidade sáfica: como uma poeta nascida há 2 mil anos virou referência nos estudos de gênero |trans-title=Sapphic identity: how a poet born 2 thousand years ago became a reference in gender studies |url=https://oglobo.globo.com/cultura/identidade-safica-como-uma-poeta-nascida-ha-2-mil-anos-virou-referencia-nos-estudos-de-genero-25078464 |access-date=2024-04-28 |website=[[O Globo]] |language=pt-BR}}</ref> She was born on the Greek island [[Lesbos]], which also inspired the term [[lesbianism]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=sapphism |url=https://www.oxfordreference.com/display/10.1093/oi/authority.20110803100441631 |access-date=2024-04-28 |website=Oxford Reference |publisher=[[Oxford University Press]] |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Doble |first=Flora |date=27 July 2020 |title=Sapphic sexuality: lesbian myth and reality in art and sculpture |url=https://artuk.org/discover/stories/sapphic-sexuality-lesbian-myth-and-reality-in-art-and-sculpture |access-date=2024-04-28 |website=[[Art UK]] |language=en}}</ref>
The term ''sapphism'' has been used since the 1890s,<ref>{{cite web |title=Sapphic (adj.) |url=https://www.etymonline.com/word/Sapphic |website=Etymonline.com |access-date=7 May 2024 |language=en}}</ref> and derives from [[Sappho]], a Greek [[poet]] whose verses mainly focused on love between women and her own homosexual passions.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Torres |first=Bolívar |date=2021-06-26 |title=Identidade sáfica: como uma poeta nascida há 2 mil anos virou referência nos estudos de gênero |trans-title=Sapphic identity: How a poet born 2 thousand years ago became a reference in gender studies |url=https://oglobo.globo.com/cultura/identidade-safica-como-uma-poeta-nascida-ha-2-mil-anos-virou-referencia-nos-estudos-de-genero-25078464 |access-date=2024-04-28 |website=[[O Globo]] |language=pt}}</ref> She was born on the Greek island [[Lesbos]], which also inspired the term [[lesbianism]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=sapphism |url=https://www.oxfordreference.com/display/10.1093/oi/authority.20110803100441631 |access-date=2024-04-28 |website=Oxford Reference |publisher=[[Oxford University Press]] |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Doble |first=Flora |date=27 July 2020 |title=Sapphic Sexuality: Lesbian Myth and Reality in Art and Sculpture |url=https://artuk.org/discover/stories/sapphic-sexuality-lesbian-myth-and-reality-in-art-and-sculpture |access-date=2024-04-28 |website=[[Art UK]] |language=en}}</ref>


Sappho’s work is one of the few ancient references to sapphic love. Her poetry, significant in quality, is a rare example of [[female sexuality]] separated from [[reproduction]] in history.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Reynolds |first=Margaret |url= |title=The Sappho Companion |date=2010-12-15 |publisher=Random House |isbn=978-1-4464-1376-0 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2023-08-14 |title=Cosas que debes saber sobre las mujeres sáficas |trans-title=Things you need to know about sapphic women |url=https://saficosmos.com/lbtq/cosas-datos-saber-que-significa-termino-mujeres-saficas/ |access-date=2024-04-28 |website=Saficosmos |language=es-MX}}</ref>
Sappho's work is one of the few ancient references to sapphic love. Her poetry, significant in quality, is a rare example of [[female sexuality]] separated from [[reproduction]] in history.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Reynolds |first=Margaret |url= |title=The Sappho Companion |date=2010-12-15 |publisher=Random House |isbn=978-1-4464-1376-0 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2023-08-14 |title=Cosas que debes saber sobre las mujeres sáficas |trans-title=Things you need to know about sapphic women |url=https://saficosmos.com/lbtq/cosas-datos-saber-que-significa-termino-mujeres-saficas/ |access-date=2024-04-28 |website=Saficosmos |language=es}}</ref>


== Use ==
== Use ==
The term sapphic encompasses the experiences of lesbians and bisexual women, for example, among other [[plurisexual]] and [[multiromantic]] individuals.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Janssen |first=Diederik F. |date=2023-06-05 |title=Monosexual/Plurisexual: A Concise History |url=https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00918369.2023.2218957 |journal=Journal of Homosexuality |language=en |pages=1–24 |doi=10.1080/00918369.2023.2218957 |pmid=37272900 |issn=0091-8369}}</ref><ref>{{Cite thesis |title=Bisexual (un)belonging: Exploring the socio-spatial negotiation of plurisexual individuals in LGBT+ and queer spaces |url=https://doi.org/10.22024/UniKent/01.02.105513 |publisher=[[University of Kent]] |date=December 2023 |degree=phd |language=en |first=Robin Rose |last=Breetveld|doi=10.22024/UniKent/01.02.105513 }}</ref> Asexual and aromantic women who are attracted at least to a woman are also sapphic.<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Winer |first1=Canton |last2=Carroll |first2=Megan |last3=Yang |first3=Yuchen |last4=Linder |first4=Katherine |last5=Miles |first5=Brittney |date=February 2024 |title="I Didn't Know Ace Was a Thing": Bisexuality and pansexuality as identity pathways in asexual identity formation |url=http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/13634607221085485 |journal=Sexualities |language=en |volume=27 |issue=1–2 |pages=267–289 |doi=10.1177/13634607221085485 |issn=1363-4607}}</ref><ref>{{Citation |last=Klein |first=Ula Lukszo |title=Sapphic Relations |date=2023 |work=The Routledge Companion to Eighteenth-Century Literatures in English |pages=287–298 |url=https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9781003271208-30/sapphic-relations-ula-lukszo-klein |access-date=2024-04-29 |publisher=Routledge |doi=10.4324/9781003271208-30 |isbn=978-1-003-27120-8}}</ref>
The term ''sapphic'' encompasses the experiences of lesbians and bisexual women, for example, among other [[plurisexual]] and [[multiromantic]] individuals.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Janssen |first=Diederik F. |date=2023-06-05 |title=Monosexual/Plurisexual: A Concise History |journal=Journal of Homosexuality |language=en |volume=71 |issue=8 |pages=1839–1862 |doi=10.1080/00918369.2023.2218957 |pmid=37272900 |issn=0091-8369|doi-access=free }}</ref><ref>{{Cite thesis |title=Bisexual (Un)belonging: Exploring the Socio-spatial Negotiation of Plurisexual Individuals in LGBT+ and Queer Spaces |publisher=[[University of Kent]] |year=2023 |degree=doctoral |first=Robin Rose |last=Breetveld |doi=10.22024/UniKent/01.02.105513 |doi-access=free}}</ref> Asexual and aromantic women who are attracted to a woman are also sapphic.<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Winer |first1=Canton |last2=Carroll |first2=Megan |last3=Yang |first3=Yuchen |last4=Linder |first4=Katherine |last5=Miles |first5=Brittney |date=February 2024 |title='I Didn't Know Ace Was a Thing': Bisexuality and Pansexuality as Identity Pathways in Asexual Identity Formation |journal=Sexualities |language=en |volume=27 |issue=1–2 |pages=267–289 |doi=10.1177/13634607221085485 |issn=1363-4607|url=https://osf.io/agnd8 }}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last=Klein |first=Ula Lukszo |chapter=Sapphic Relations |date=2023 |editor1-last=Eron |editor1-first=Sarah |editor2-last=Aljoe |editor2-first=Nicole N. |editor3-last=Kaul |editor3-first=Suvir |title=The Routledge Companion to Eighteenth-Century Literatures in English |pages=287–298 |publisher=Routledge |doi=10.4324/9781003271208-30 |isbn=978-1-003-27120-8}}</ref>


Some sapphic individuals may be non-binary or genderqueer, using the term more broadly.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Dyer |first=Harriet |url= |title=The Little Book of LGBTQ+: An A-Z of Gender and Sexual Identities |date=2021 |publisher=Summersdale Publishers |isbn=978-1-78783-974-8 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Nast |first=Condé |date=2022-04-27 |title=What Does It Mean to Be Sapphic? |url=https://www.them.us/story/what-does-sapphic-mean |access-date=2024-04-28 |website=[[Them (website)|Them]] |language=en-US}}</ref> There are also equivalent terms for relationships between men ([[Achillean (sexuality)|Achillean]], named in reference of [[Achilles and Patroclus]],<ref>{{Cite book |last=Barron |first=Victoria |url= |title=Perfectly Queer: An Illustrated Introduction |date=2023-02-21 |publisher=Jessica Kingsley Publishers |isbn=978-1-83997-409-0 |language=en}}</ref> or [[Vincian]], reference of [[sexuality of Leonardo da Vinci]]),<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Wrightson-Hester |first1=Aimee-Rose |last2=Anderson |first2=Georgia |last3=Dunstan |first3=Joel |last4=McEvoy |first4=Peter M. |last5=Sutton |first5=Christopher J. |last6=Myers |first6=Bronwyn |last7=Egan |first7=Sarah |last8=Tai |first8=Sara |last9=Johnston-Hollitt |first9=Melanie |last10=Chen |first10=Wai |last11=Gedeon |first11=Tom |last12=Mansell |first12=Warren |date=2023-07-21 |title=An Artificial Therapist (Manage Your Life Online) to Support the Mental Health of Youth: Co-Design and Case Series |url=https://humanfactors.jmir.org/2023/1/e46849 |journal=JMIR Human Factors |language=EN |volume=10 |issue=1 |pages=e46849 |doi=10.2196/46849|doi-access=free }}</ref> between a man and a woman (duaric), and involving at least one non-binary person (diamoric or [[enbian]]).<ref>{{Cite book |last=Hardell |first=Ash |author-link=Ash Hardell |url= |title=The ABC's of LGBT+ |date=2016-11-08 |publisher=Mango Media Inc. |isbn=978-1-63353-408-7 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Lacsko |first=Madeleine |title=Termos juvélicos: 100 novas orientações sexuais para você decorar ou ser cancelado |url=https://www.gazetadopovo.com.br/vozes/madeleine-lacsko/termos-juvelicos-100-novas-orientacoes-sexuais-para-voce-decorar-ou-ser-cancelado/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231129012524/https://www.gazetadopovo.com.br/vozes/madeleine-lacsko/termos-juvelicos-100-novas-orientacoes-sexuais-para-voce-decorar-ou-ser-cancelado/ |archive-date=2023-11-29 |access-date=2024-04-29 |website=[[Gazeta do Povo]] |language=pt-BR}}</ref>
Some sapphic individuals may be non-binary or genderqueer, using the term more broadly.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Dyer |first=Harriet |url= |title=The Little Book of LGBTQ+: An A–Z of Gender and Sexual Identities |date=2021 |publisher=Summersdale Publishers |isbn=978-1-78783-974-8 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Hamou |first=Yasmine |date=2022-04-27 |title=What Does It Mean to Be Sapphic? |url=https://www.them.us/story/what-does-sapphic-mean |access-date=2024-04-28 |website=[[Them (website)|Them]] |publisher=Condé Nast |language=en-US}}</ref> There are also equivalent terms for relationships between men ([[Achillean (sexuality)|Achillean]], named in reference of [[Achilles and Patroclus]],<ref>{{Cite book |last=Barron |first=Victoria |url= |title=Perfectly Queer: An Illustrated Introduction |date=2023-02-21 |publisher=Jessica Kingsley Publishers |isbn=978-1-83997-409-0 |language=en}}</ref> or [[Vincian]], referencing [[sexuality of Leonardo da Vinci]]),<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Wrightson-Hester |first1=Aimee-Rose |last2=Anderson |first2=Georgia |last3=Dunstan |first3=Joel |last4=McEvoy |first4=Peter M. |last5=Sutton |first5=Christopher J. |last6=Myers |first6=Bronwyn |last7=Egan |first7=Sarah |last8=Tai |first8=Sara |last9=Johnston-Hollitt |first9=Melanie |author9-link=Melanie Johnston-Hollitt |last10=Chen |first10=Wai |last11=Gedeon |first11=Tom |last12=Mansell |first12=Warren |date=2023-07-21 |title=An Artificial Therapist (Manage Your Life Online) to Support the Mental Health of Youth: Co-Design and Case Series |journal=JMIR Human Factors |language=EN |volume=10 |issue=1 |pages=e46849 |doi=10.2196/46849 |doi-access=free |pmid=37477969 |pmc=10403793 }}</ref> between a man and a woman (duaric), and involving at least one non-binary person (diamoric or [[enbian]]).<ref>{{Cite book |last=Hardell |first=Ash |author-link=Ash Hardell |url= |title=The ABC's of LGBT+ |date=2016-11-08 |publisher=Mango Media |isbn=978-1-63353-408-7 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Lacsko |first=Madeleine |author-link=:pt:Madeleine Lacsko |title=Termos juvélicos: 100 novas orientações sexuais para você decorar ou ser cancelado |url=https://www.gazetadopovo.com.br/vozes/madeleine-lacsko/termos-juvelicos-100-novas-orientacoes-sexuais-para-voce-decorar-ou-ser-cancelado/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231129012524/https://www.gazetadopovo.com.br/vozes/madeleine-lacsko/termos-juvelicos-100-novas-orientacoes-sexuais-para-voce-decorar-ou-ser-cancelado/ |archive-date=2023-11-29 |access-date=2024-04-29 |website=[[Gazeta do Povo]] |language=pt}}</ref>


Sapphic is also used in [[LGBT literature]] for works involving at least one relationship between women, regardless if they are lesbian or not.<ref>{{Cite thesis |title=Sapphic Representations in Contemporary Young Adult Literature |url=https://hvlopen.brage.unit.no/hvlopen-xmlui/handle/11250/2992128 |publisher=Høgskulen på Vestlandet |date=2021 |degree=Master thesis |first=Ida Sofie Sverkeli |last=Nygård}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last=Peyre |first=Henri |date=1979 |title=On the Sapphic Motif in Modern French Literature |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/40836208 |journal=Dalhousie French Studies |volume=1 |pages=3–33 |jstor=40836208 |issn=0711-8813}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Hackett |first=Robin |url= |title=Sapphic Primitivism: Productions of Race, Class, and Sexuality in Key Works of Modern Fiction |date=2004 |publisher=Rutgers University Press |isbn=978-0-8135-3347-6 |language=en}}</ref>
''Sapphic'' is also used in [[LGBT literature]] for works involving at least one relationship between women, regardless if they are lesbian or not.<ref>{{Cite thesis |title=Sapphic Representations in Contemporary Young Adult Literature |publisher=Western Norway University of Applied Sciences |year=2021 |degree=master's |first=Ida Sofie Sverkeli |last=Nygård |hdl=11250/2992128 |hdl-access=free}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last=Peyre |first=Henri |author-link=Henri Peyre |date=1979 |title=On the Sapphic Motif in Modern French Literature |journal=Dalhousie French Studies |volume=1 |pages=3–33 |jstor=40836208 |issn=0711-8813}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Hackett |first=Robin |url= |title=Sapphic Primitivism: Productions of Race, Class, and Sexuality in Key Works of Modern Fiction |date=2004 |publisher=Rutgers University Press |isbn=978-0-8135-3347-6 |language=en}}</ref>


== See also ==
== See also ==
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* [[LGBT slang]]
* [[LGBT slang]]
* [[Monosexuality]]
* [[Monosexuality]]
* [[Pomosexuality]]
* [[Questioning (sexuality and gender)]]
* [[Sexual diversity]]
* [[Sexual diversity]]
* [[Terminology of homosexuality]]
* [[Terminology of homosexuality]]
* [[Tribadism]]
* [[Unlabeled sexuality]]
* [[Uranian (sexuality)]]
* [[Uranian (sexuality)]]
* [[Women who have sex with women]] (WSW)


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== References ==
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Latest revision as of 20:46, 21 November 2024

For other uses, see Sapphic (disambiguation).
Sapphic
Pronunciation/ˈsæfɪk/
EtymologySappho + -ism or -ic
Abbreviations
Subcategories
Other terms
DerivativesSapphist[2]
Flag
Sapphic Flag made of three equal-sized verticle stripes of pink, white, pink, with a small five petalled flower in the centre of the white stripe
Sapphic pride flag[3][4]
Flag nameSapphic pride flag[3][4]

Sapphism is an umbrella term for any woman attracted to women or in a relationship with another woman, regardless of their sexual orientations, and encompassing the romantic love between women.

The term is inclusive of individuals who are lesbian, bisexual, pansexual, omnisexual, aromantic, asexual, or queer. There are also sapphic people who are non-binary or genderqueer.[5][6][7]

Etymology

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Sappho, by Enrique Simonet.

The term sapphism has been used since the 1890s,[8] and derives from Sappho, a Greek poet whose verses mainly focused on love between women and her own homosexual passions.[9] She was born on the Greek island Lesbos, which also inspired the term lesbianism.[10][11]

Sappho's work is one of the few ancient references to sapphic love. Her poetry, significant in quality, is a rare example of female sexuality separated from reproduction in history.[12][13]

Use

[edit]

The term sapphic encompasses the experiences of lesbians and bisexual women, for example, among other plurisexual and multiromantic individuals.[14][15] Asexual and aromantic women who are attracted to a woman are also sapphic.[16][17]

Some sapphic individuals may be non-binary or genderqueer, using the term more broadly.[18][19] There are also equivalent terms for relationships between men (Achillean, named in reference of Achilles and Patroclus,[20] or Vincian, referencing sexuality of Leonardo da Vinci),[21] between a man and a woman (duaric), and involving at least one non-binary person (diamoric or enbian).[22][23]

Sapphic is also used in LGBT literature for works involving at least one relationship between women, regardless if they are lesbian or not.[24][25][26]

See also

[edit]
Look up sapphic in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.

References

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  1. ^ Llewellyn, Anna (10 November 2022). "'A Space Where Queer Is Normalized': The Online World and Fanfictions as Heterotopias for WLW". Journal of Homosexuality. 69 (13): 2348–2369. doi:10.1080/00918369.2021.1940012. ISSN 0091-8369. PMID 34185633.
  2. ^ https://www.oed.com/dictionary/sapphist_n?tl=true
  3. ^ "Symbols". Queer Cafe. Retrieved 28 April 2024.
  4. ^ "Elástica explica: termos juvélicos". Elástica – Todos do mesmo lado (in Portuguese). Retrieved 28 April 2024.
  5. ^ Sisko, Adriana (1 January 2021). "My Gender is Lesbian": Community Building and the Endurance of the Lesbian in Queer Times. Theses and Dissertations--Gender and Women's Studies (Thesis). doi:10.13023/etd.2021.481.
  6. ^ Hord, Levi CR (September 2022). "Specificity without identity: Articulating post-gender sexuality through the "non-binary lesbian"". Sexualities. 25 (5–6): 615–637. doi:10.1177/1363460720981564. ISSN 1363-4607.
  7. ^ Robles, Breanna Raquel (2019). "A Soft Epilogue: LGBTQ Fanworks as Reparative Reading". California State University.
  8. ^ "Sapphic (adj.)". Etymonline.com. Retrieved 7 May 2024.
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