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Sapphic Representation: Why is it so hard to find?

 Lesbian is not a dirty word. Sapphic is not a dirty word.  But somehow, it is still much more acceptable to be a gay man than it is to be a queer* woman, and this is represented in literature; it is much easier to find well-written books about gay men than it is to find their sapphic counterparts.  In recent years, though, sapphic literature has become more popular and been better received, and hopefully one day soon this will no longer be true.  I think a lot of the issue goes back to one that stands at the core of gender studies, queer studies, and cultural studies, among many other literary disciplines. For much of literary history, female characters have simply not been as fleshed out as male characters. Virginia Woolf wrote about this phenomenon in A Room Of One's Own, back in 1929, and Alison Bechdel drew our collective attention to it again in the creation of the Bechdel test in 1985.  Both authors, interestingly, can be considered sapphic writers. Virgi...

Hello, I'm back! A letter from the writer who disappeared... & Hurricane Helene fundraiser

Hello everyone! It has been a million years (read: several years) since I posted on here, and that's because during college I was the Editor-in-Chief of my university's Her Campus chapter. All of my non-academic writing from college is hosted on the Her Campus website. Since I'm graduating in two months, and I want to continue writing, I'm back!! I've also been very active on my instagram, @strawberryblondebookshelf, for the past 2.5 years. It'll be my three year anniversary of that account in January! I love my community on Instagram and I'd like to start sharing my writing with all of you.  I will be writing a lot about books, as I did with Her Campus. I loved having a blog format to post my work in, and I'm very excited to be back writing on here. I previously wrote a lot about fashion on here, and I will probably still do that. I also plan on writing about some deeper topics as well.  I'd really appreciate if you subscribed so that you don't ...