Sapphic
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The term sapphic is derived from the Greek poet Sappho, who lived on the isle of Lesbos. The sexual identity of Sappho has been long debated and continues as such to this day. Some interpret her poems as meaning she had relationship with women. Her new style of poetry was called a \"sapphic stanza\". Her songs often mentioned various emotions to her susceptibility to women, which later, derived the terms sapphic and lesbian.[9]
Because the term bisexual did not come into popularity until the 1950s, the words \"sapphic\"[1] and \"lesbian\" were used to describe a potentially romantic relationship between two women.[1][8] In the mid-20th century, \"lesbian\" and \"sapphic\" were often synonyms, meaning they meant the same thing. In the 21st century, it has become an umbrella term used to describe any romantic relationship between women or between non-binary people. The uptick in searches for the term sapphic have increased since 2014.[1]
Two sapphic flags have two pink stripes on the top and bottom, symbolizing love, with a lavender center stripe. The center of the lavender stripe depicts a flower. In one version, a pair of violets in the center symbolizes love between two women;[10] the second version has a single simplified violet instead.
The word \"sapphic\" is often confused for \"lesbian\" or thought to be the same thing. They historically were equivalent, but because they have accumulated multiple definitions, their meanings are ambiguous without specifying which definitions are used.[1]
For instance, when lesbians are defined as women who are exclusively attracted to women only, although that is sometimes not the case,[11] it would not include those with multisexual orientations or non-binary identities. When using that definition, sapphic could then be distinguished as an umbrella term by including all sexualities in which women are attracted to other women, by explicitly including non-binary identities, or both. Under those specific definitions, pansexual and non-binary would be mutually exclusive with lesbian, but a pansexual non-binary individual could be sapphic.[1] However, although lesbian is often regarded as an exclusive term, it likewise has definitions inclusive of non-binary[1][11] and/or multisexual lesbians.[1]
The poet Sappho wrote poems of self-reflection but also of passion, some of it directed to the women attending the school she conducted on the Greek island of Lesbos around 600 B.C. Even though most of the poems survive only as fragments, they have been greatly admired for many centuries. They were written in an original rhythmical pattern, which has become known as sapphic verse. Later admirers, such as the Roman poets Catullus and Horace, honored her by adopting the sapphic meter for their own poetry. Because of Sappho, the island of Lesbos also gave its name to lesbianism, which writers often used to call sapphic love.
The term sapphic has a long history, one that dates all the way back to ancient Greece, and has become an umbrella word that refers to a wide spectrum of sexualities and genders. If you want to learn more about sapphic love and its intertwined history with lesbian identity, read on!
At its core, sapphics can be lesbians, bisexuals, and pansexual people of a variety of genders. Trans femmes, mascs, nonbinary people, and cis women can all fall under the sapphic umbrella if the term resonates with them.
When I was in the throes of figuring out my sexual orientation throughout adolescence, and even in my college years, sapphic felt like a term that was welcoming and broadly encompassing. It seems almost impossible that I have identified as anything else.
Although historians use the term sapphic retrospectively,[2][3] the first use of sapphic as a sexual orientation was by sexologist Magnus Hirschfeld in his pamphlet \"Sappho and Socrates: Or How is the Love of Men and Women for Persons of Their Own Sex Explained\"[4]
Up until the late 2000s and early 2010s, sapphic was used primarily as an adjective version of lesbian.[5][6] The first known use of sapphic as an independent identity is by Tumblr user sapphicseekingsapphic on February 23, 2012.[7]
The original sapphic flag was created by Tumblr user lesbeux-moved on August 14, 2015.[8] The sapphic flag has two pink stripes on the top and bottom, symbolizing love. In the center there is a violet, which was historically given between women to symbolize their sapphic love. In the center of the original flag is a realistic pair of violets.
The demisapphic flag was created by an anonymous wiki user on August 3, 2021. It is the sapphic flag in the demi- flag format. The dark grey stripe stands for a-spec attraction. This flag can be used for sexual, romantic, and tertiary attraction.
The sapphic poem dates back to ancient Greece and is named for the poet Sappho, who left behind many poem fragments written in an unmistakable meter. Sapphics are made up of any number of four-line stanzas, and many Greek and Roman poets, including Catullus, used the form. It was introduced to Roman and European poets by Horace, who frequently used sapphics in his Odes, and later became popular as a verse form for hymns during the Middle Ages. Modern sapphics have been written by Ezra Pound, John Frederick Nims, and Anne Carson.
The original sapphic form was determined by quantitative meter, based on the nature of the ancient Greek language in which syllables were either long or short, depending on vowel length and ending sound. However, modern sapphics are rendered in accentual meter determined instead by the stress and intensity of a syllable. The accentual meter of the sapphic approximates the original form by equating long syllables with stressed ones, and short syllables with unstressed ones.
The strict meter of the sapphic, with its starts and stops, creates a powerful emotion that the language of the poem intensifies. Starting with a stressed syllable, as opposed to the familiar iambic foot that begins on an unstressed syllable, provides a sense of forcefulness and urgency to the sapphic, while the extra unstressed syllable at the core of the first three lines, offers a pause, or caesura, within the driving movement. The short fourth line may offer either a rest or a quick turn to the poem, or even an opportunity for conclusion, as with the final two lines of a Shakespearean sonnet.
Not all sapphic pop songs are sapphic bops. Sapphic bops are specifically fun, they make you want to dance, and they're typically more about sex, flirting, and love than yearning, heartbreak, and longing (although that rule can be bent). They can be any genre: rock, dance, pop, hip hop, r&b, or even country.
This is not to say that we don't love the yearning side of sapphic music, we definitely do. And you know we'll be listening to Tegan and Sara, girl in red, Phoebe Bridgers, and KD Lang next time we go through a breakup. But we also want to celebrate the sapphic bops we were dancing to all year.
With chiptune sound effects and a rock guitar, mazie sings about getting lost in the sensuality of another girl. With lyrics that will make most sapphics blush and a fun attitude, this song is one of the best of the year.
Dove Cameron's queer manifesto came out swinging and never stopped. This is sapphic swag, it's the sexiest song of the year. In ten years, we'll look back and realize how many people came out because of this song. In 2023, we all wish Dove Cameron was our boyfriend.
You can download a PDF of the regular bingo card here. Fill it in with the titles of the sapphic books you read in 2023. You can either type in the PDF or print it out and fill it in by hand.
Sapphic Seattle will host their first-ever New Year's Eve party with a showstopping lineup of DJs, drag stars, go-go dancers, and burlesque performers. The first half of the night (5-10 pm) will be reserved for sapphic-identifying folks, afterwards, all are welcome.
1. Mr. Tweedie is correct to suggest Coleridge, Swinburne, Tennyson, Hardy, and Kipling attempted to write sapphics; but Tennyson was wrong to think sapphics have been naturalized into the English tradition.
8. I do believe Mr. Southerland is trying harder than anyone in the New Millennium to write sapphics. I recommend he scan the Internet for work being done in sapphics on classical sites, even at free verse venues. Get out there and know your competition.
Charles, I also add my compliments to you in regards to your efforts on behalf of, and in pursuit of, a true English sapphic. Such a thing is far beyond my grasp. Even so, although breaking the sound barrier and the four-minute mile were considered impossible, but once broken those who followed made such feats both routine and ordinary. Perhaps your efforts will accomplish something similar in the (albeit more esoteric) field of sapphic poetry!
2. Again, as I think I have mentioned before, Mr. Southerland writes the best sapphics I have read in the New Millennium. The ease of his lines is remarkable, if not entirely smooth. I am definitely reminded of Swinburne.
James, I admire the work you have put into your essay. The examples of sapphic verse provided are excellent. Responses by Messrs. Southerland and Cwerbus added further value to an already noteworthy piece.
In fact, the word sapphic can be used as a modifier with other identities. It can highlight not only the attraction to other women, but also stand for sapphic love. Sapphic can also be an identity on its own. Sometimes the term sapphic is used as a descriptor for lesbian relationships between women.
The background of the term sapphic is ancient. Just like many things that have survived over the centuries, sapphic history is up for debate. Some historians prefer to use the term sapphic stanza and limit its uses solely to refer to poems symbolizing love between women.
Typically is an umbrella term for a woman who exclusively loves women. Lesbians are women that can be sapphic, but they are solely attracted to females, and therefore one