History Is Gay: Fucking Superb, You Funky Little Lesbian
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Safo's School
There are some scholars who take the angle that Safo was more of like a headmistress for the young women around her. She's serving a public function of instilling sensual awareness and sexual self regard, she says. The idea of switching back and forth between roles is a more modern expression of male homosexuality Historically as Ella Hasselstvard notes in Safo's lesbianism by contrast, it would appear that the pursuer could become the pursued at any moment. Both of the women involved are liberated from the scripts that predetermined those roles. Queerness is not necessarily the freedom from an eroticized power imbalance, but the freedom from its gendered predetermination.
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