Top 10 Sapphic love stories
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Are fictional lesbians always miserable?
When I first came out and started anxiously reading the “Sapphic canon”, I feared that was the case. Classics such as The Well of Loneliness, The Color mehr anzeigen Purple, Stone Butch Blues, or indeed Sappho’s poetry, told me that falling in love with a woman could be profound and beautiful, but it would not be fun. Sapphic love stories were defined by longing, yearning and angst. Often, women died.
Don’t get me wrong, I love a good yearn. But not all the time. Happily, the more LGBTQ+ love stories are told and encouraged, the more variety of representation can flourish. The way sapphists are portrayed is increasingly permitted to be as multifaceted and unique as real life.
[...]
In narrowing down my recommendations of Sapphic love stories, I want to provide an alternative for my worried younger self: so here are 10 books that affirm that Sapphic love can be one of life’s greatest pleasures.
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When I first came out and started anxiously reading the “Sapphic canon”, I feared that was the case. Classics such as The Well of Loneliness, The Color mehr anzeigen Purple, Stone Butch Blues, or indeed Sappho’s poetry, told me that falling in love with a woman could be profound and beautiful, but it would not be fun. Sapphic love stories were defined by longing, yearning and angst. Often, women died.
Don’t get me wrong, I love a good yearn. But not all the time. Happily, the more LGBTQ+ love stories are told and encouraged, the more variety of representation can flourish. The way sapphists are portrayed is increasingly permitted to be as multifaceted and unique as real life.
[...]
In narrowing down my recommendations of Sapphic love stories, I want to provide an alternative for my worried younger self: so here are 10 books that affirm that Sapphic love can be one of life’s greatest pleasures.
Lily Lindon – LT author page weniger anzeigen
| Werk | Sortierreihenfolge |
|---|---|
| I Kissed Shara Wheeler (2022) von Casey McQuiston | 1 |
| Infamous (2022) von Lex Croucher | 2 |
| Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl (2017) von Andrea Lawlor | 3 |
| Wow, No Thank You: Essays (2020) von Samantha Irby | 4 |
| In at the Deep End (2019) von Kate Davies | 5 |
| Wild Things (2023) von Laura Kay | 6 |
| Fun Home: Eine Familie von Gezeichneten (2006) von Alison Bechdel | 7 |
| Hani and Ishu's Guide to Fake Dating (2021) von Adiba Jaigirdar | 8 |
| Sedating Elaine (2022) von Dawn Winter | 9 |
| Our World (2007) von Mary Oliver | 10 |
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