Bookmarks: Re-Queering Sappho

[caitri]

Re-Queering Sappho by Ella Haselswerdt

Once, at a small dinner party with some fellow classicists, a genuinely lovely and brilliant male colleague floated a pet theory of his: Sappho was actually a man. It’s a perverse idea, but not an outrageous one. Sappho has long been celebrated as the lone female voice of Ancient Greece, and none of the

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[browngirl]

Gorgeous nd powerful.

[blcwriter]

a condescending assumption of naïveté about the nature of identity and identification

Ugh, this. The least complex sex and gender assuming only they are capable of complexity.

I have Anne Carson's translation & edit of Sappho's fragments and her forward was enough to get me interested in the rest of her work, which I haven't for a second regretted. She is truly a wide and deep thinker who takes nothing for granted.