22/06/2020
Did you know? Le***an literally means resident of Le**os, a Greek island in the Aegean sea. But to most people the term describes a gay woman. So how did that happen?🏳️🌈
It's simple: the first woman that we have a record of her yearning for women was a literal ***an! She is no other than Sappho of Le**os, born around 615 B.C.😍
Sappho was a great poet who wrote many directed to other women. Unfortunately much of her poetry has been lost through the years, with a lot of people suspecting Christian fundamentalists to have played a part in the dissappearance of her works😔
But we still have enough to know for a fact that Sappho was a brave (woman who loved women). The reason we say brave is not just because she dared to write about *xuallove and feelings, but because her writing was also very erotic, something extremely uncommon for women in her time🥰
Fragment from a by Sappho, translated by Julia Dubnoff:
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Honestly, I wish I were dead.
Weeping many tears, she left me and said,
“Alas, how terribly we suffer, Sappho.
I really leave you against my will.”
And I answered: “Farewell, go and remember me.
You know how we cared for you.
If not, I would remind you
...of our wonderful times.
For by my side you put on
many wreaths of roses
and garlands of flowers
around your soft neck.
And with precious and royal perfume
you anointed yourself.
On soft beds you satisfied your passion.
And there was no dance,
no holy place
from which we were absent 💞
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