Sapphic Circle is a space for lesbians to come together to explore feminist issues, build solidarity, and connect over shared experiences. We seek to build lesbian community through engaging in lesbian ideas, politics, media, and feminist resistance!
Sapphic Circle meets the 2nd and 4th Sunday of the month, 12pm PT/ 3pm ET/ 7pm UTC.
"It is important to recognise that separatism is a strategy engaged in by every feminist. It is a fundamental element of all feminist philosophy." - Susan Hawthorn (2019)
“I think it’s important to remember that lesbians used to get lost in the gay-rights movement then, and I think they can still get lost in the LGTBQ+ movement today.” Lillian Faderman, 2021
“Whether you’re at a festival or on Land, the context of being in a space with only women, particularly lesbians, kind of redefines what a woman is,” Claire states, “There [becomes] this whole new concept of the word ‘woman’, because it’s used like most people use the word ‘people’.”
What I'm saying is that lesbian community is possible— a community that is "separate" in the sense that there is a lesbian center of gravity (or of hilarity, perhaps), a force field, in which natural lesbian connection happens, which sustains and protects lesbians... - Marilyn Frye
