Sapphism

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Sapphism is an umbrella term for women loving women (WLW): any woman attracted to women or in a relationship with another woman, regardless of their sexual orientation, and encompassing the romantic love between women. Uranian and Achillean are male equivalents of sapphism.

Etymology

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Sappho, by Enrique Simonet.

The term sapphism has been used since the 1890s,[1] and derives from Sappho, a Greek poet whose verses included her accounts of sexual and romantic love between women.[2] According to Oxford English Dictionary, the word sapphist exists at least since 1789.[3]

She was born on the Greek island Lesbos, which also inspired the term lesbianism.[4][5] Sappho's work is one of the few ancient references to sapphic love.[6][7]

Use

The term sapphic encompasses the experiences of lesbian, bisexual, gynephilic, plurisexual, and multiromantic women, as well as women who are attracted to women but decline a label, experience a fluid sexuality, or are questioning their sexuality.[8][9] Asexual and aromantic women who are attracted to women can also be sapphic.[10][11]

Some sapphic individuals may be non-binary.[12][13] There are also equivalent terms for relationships between men (Uranian, Achillean),[14] between a man and a woman (duaric)[15] and involving at least one non-binary person (diamoric or enbian).[16]

Sapphic is also used in lesbian literature for works involving at least one relationship between women, regardless of whether they are lesbian or not.[17][18][19]

See also

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References

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  1. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Sapphic (adj.)". Etymonline.com. Archived from the original on 1 July 2025. Retrieved 7 May 2024.
  2. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Torres, Bolívar (26 June 2021). "Identidade sáfica: como uma poeta nascida há 2 mil anos virou referência nos estudos de gênero" [Sapphic identity: How a poet born 2 thousand years ago became a reference in gender studies]. O Globo (in português). Archived from the original on 29 June 2025. Retrieved 28 April 2024.
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  5. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Doble, Flora (27 July 2020). "Sapphic Sexuality: Lesbian Myth and Reality in Art and Sculpture". Art UK. Archived from the original on 2 November 2020. Retrieved 28 April 2024.
  6. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Reynolds, Margaret (15 December 2010). The Sappho Companion. Random House. ISBN 978-1-4464-1376-0.[page needed]
  7. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Cosas que debes saber sobre las mujeres sáficas" [Things you need to know about sapphic women]. Saficosmos (in español). 14 August 2023. Archived from the original on 29 June 2025. Retrieved 28 April 2024.
  8. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Janssen, Diederik F. (5 June 2023). "Monosexual/Plurisexual: A Concise History". Journal of Homosexuality. 71 (8): 1839–1862. doi:10.1080/00918369.2023.2218957. ISSN 0091-8369. PMID 37272900.
  9. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Breetveld, Robin Rose (2023). Bisexual (Un)belonging: Exploring the Socio-spatial Negotiation of Plurisexual Individuals in LGBT+ and Queer Spaces (doctoral thesis). University of Kent. doi:10.22024/UniKent/01.02.105513.
  10. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Winer, Canton; Carroll, Megan; Yang, Yuchen; Linder, Katherine; Miles, Brittney (February 2024). "'I Didn't Know Ace Was a Thing': Bisexuality and Pansexuality as Identity Pathways in Asexual Identity Formation". Sexualities. 27 (1–2): 267–289. doi:10.1177/13634607221085485. ISSN 1363-4607.
  11. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Klein, Ula Lukszo (2023). "Sapphic Relations". In Eron, Sarah; Aljoe, Nicole N.; Kaul, Suvir (eds.). The Routledge Companion to Eighteenth-Century Literatures in English. Routledge. pp. 287–298. doi:10.4324/9781003271208-30. ISBN 978-1-003-27120-8.
  12. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Dyer, Harriet (2021). The Little Book of LGBTQ+: An A–Z of Gender and Sexual Identities. Summersdale Publishers. ISBN 978-1-78783-974-8.[page needed]
  13. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Hamou, Yasmine (27 April 2022). "What Does It Mean to Be Sapphic?". Them.us. Condé Nast. Archived from the original on 8 June 2025. Retrieved 28 April 2024.
  14. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Barron, Victoria (21 February 2023). Perfectly Queer: An Illustrated Introduction. Jessica Kingsley Publishers. ISBN 978-1-83997-409-0.[page needed]
  15. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Lacsko, Madeleine [in português] (3 May 2022). "Termos juvélicos: 100 novas orientações sexuais para você decorar ou ser cancelado". Gazeta do Povo (in português). Archived from the original on 29 November 2023. Retrieved 29 April 2024.
  16. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Hardell, Ash (8 November 2016). The ABC's of LGBT+. Mango Media. ISBN 978-1-63353-408-7.[page needed]
  17. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Nygård, Ida Sofie Sverkeli (2021). Sapphic Representations in Contemporary Young Adult Literature (master's thesis). Western Norway University of Applied Sciences. hdl:11250/2992128.
  18. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Peyre, Henri (1979). "On the Sapphic Motif in Modern French Literature". Dalhousie French Studies. 1: 3–33. ISSN 0711-8813. JSTOR 40836208.
  19. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Hackett, Robin (2004). Sapphic Primitivism: Productions of Race, Class, and Sexuality in Key Works of Modern Fiction. Rutgers University Press. ISBN 978-0-8135-3347-6.[page needed]

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