vicholas:

avienbgwp:

vicholas:

yayasully:

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throwback to the time my classics professor asked “does anyone know who sappho is?” and i immediately replied “she’s the OG lesbian” and my professor yelled “EXACTLY” and wrote the OG lesbian on the whiteboard

the amount of people in the notes going “SHE WAS BISEXUAL THOUGH” is annoyingly high

bisexual erasure is pretty fuckin’ annoying too mate

We’re talking about a woman who died around 570 BC with few information left about her life and the proof that she’s supposedly bi is this

AND the account that she had a husband, which comes from a 10th century Byzantine encyclopedia The Suda (which is also inconsistent in the name of Sappho’s father) that claims that her husband was called Penis (Kerkylas) from the island of man (Andros) which is theorized to be most likely a joke, especially since there are no other accounts of that being used as a Greek name.

There’s a difference between erasing the sexuality of someone who was openly bi and this.