Poetess. Icon. Queer auntie energy.

This week on Dot Femme, Dany Gonzalez and Claire Michelle sail back to ancient Greece to meet the legendary Sappho — the lyrical poet from the island of Lesbos whose words still echo through time (even if most of them are missing) .

We dig into what we know (and don’t know) about her life: her wealth, her exile, her family drama. Then we explore her poetry, her influence, and how her name and homeland became permanent fixtures in the queer lexicon.

You’ll learn what made Sappho such a revolutionary voice, why her words were almost lost to history, and how “sapphic” and “lesbian” became more than just geographical and artistic descriptors.

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