Trying to read/watch more lesbian stuff. I realised I was more “male centered” i thought i was 🥲

Charles Mengin, Sappho, 1877

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.

[I seek and desire]

Sappho

translated from the ancient Greek by Bliss Carman

I seek and desire,
Even as the wind
That travels the plain
And stirs in the bloom
Of the apple-tree.

I wander through life,
With the searching mind
That is never at rest,
Till I reach the shade
Of my lover’s door.

Sappho

Julia Margaret Cameron British, born India

1865

“Mary Hillier, a beautiful young house servant at Dimbola, Cameron’s home in Freshwater, was often pressed into photographic service, frequently in the role of the Virgin Mary. She managed to assume her various guises in a remarkably unselfconscious way, projecting both gentleness and strength of character. Hillier is also the model for Cameron’s Sappho, a profile portrait in the Florentine Quattrocento style, perhaps inspired by the chromolithographic reproductions of Italian paintings distributed by the Arundel Society, of which Cameron was a member. The image has great presence, so much so that Cameron decided to print it even though she broke the negative. Precisely what the picture has to do with the Greek poet of Lesbos is unclear, especially since Cameron inscribed another print of the same image Adriana. The titles of two close variants reveal that, by looking left instead of right, Hillier was apparently transformed from Sappho into Dora or, when photographed from one step further back, Clio. Although Cameron often set out to portray a certain ideal, she also titled pictures after the fact, sometimes because the image seemed to embody the character of a certain literary or biblical figure, but sometimes, one suspects, quite simply because there was more of a market for images of the Virgin, Sappho, or Christabel than for portraits of the photographer’s niece or a parlor maid from the Isle of Wight.”

let’s all cry about fragment 83 together

Intellectual conversation about Shakespeare with my sister

Are you even sapphic if you don’t fw Kacey Musgraves on some level

Sappho (1913) by Julius Kronberg (Swedish, 1850 – 1921), oil on canvas, 146.5 cm (57.6 in) x 181.5 cm (71.4 in), Private Collection

Lure me to rapture

eucanthos

1. The Poetess Sappho, 1819, Circle of Jacques-Louis David
2. Maison Margiela Artisanal 2025 Collection [mask-hood]
3. Henri Fantin-Latour, Roses (and Lilies) 1888
4. Dryer hairdressing salon vintage tubes
5. Christina Kubisch EROTICA [condom flute]
6. Antoine d'Agata – Oscurana [anatomy]
7. Kelsey Dylan [pubic hair]
8. Bettina Rheims Nu de dos attaché à Mon lit 1981 [notes]
9. Ionic capital explanatory technical drawing

Hopelessly devoted

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Even In Another Time

A timeline drawn for Pride 2025 ruminating on how we’ve always been here in one form or another, no matter what anyone says.

The greek is from a Sappho fragment that inspired the idea in the first place:

“I swear, someday, someone will remember us - even in another time.”

I’ve read a couple translations of Sappho and came across my notes again. Just some passages that really struck me with their beauty. Example:

“…As sometimes at sunset the rosyfingered moon surpasses all the stars. And her light stretches over salt sea equally and flowerdeep fields…”

Sappho 96, translated by Anne Carson

— “If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho” translated by Anne Carson

— “If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho” translated by Anne Carson

I seek and desire

Sappho

translated from the ancient Greek by Bliss Carman

I seek and desire,
Even as the wind
That travels the plain
And stirs in the bloom
Of the apple-tree.

I wander through life,
With the searching mind
That is never at rest,
Till I reach the shade
Of my lover’s door.