happy #LesbianDayofVisibility everyone!!
in honour of our sapphic wlw, this is a thread of great wlw throughout history who we should recognise!!
because of the character limit, i’ve put the main facts about the ladies, but i urge you to do some research if you’re interested!
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THE LADIES OF LLANGOLLEN (late 18th-early 19th century) -upper class irish women eleanor butler + sarah ponsonby who moved to wales for retirement to have a romantic non-sexual relationship -they became famous and even had visitors such as queen charlotte and poet lord byronpic.twitter.com/7zyZIu0zEU
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FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE (1820-1910) -british founder of modern nursing -also known as the lady with the lamp -organised care for wounded soldiers in the crimean war -loved three women passionately throughout her life+hated everything women were expected to do (courting etc)pic.twitter.com/RjGMTyKc8D
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EMILY DICKINSON (1830-1886) -american poet -bisexual -had a passionate relationship with susan gilbert, who she met at university -gilbert eventually married dickinsons brother but the two maintained their passionate relationship through letters and visitspic.twitter.com/LbjN4UAa6g
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ELEANOR ROOSEVELT (1884-1962) -american political figure and activist -bisexual -married to president franklin d. roosevelt -maintained a relationship with journalist lorena “hick” hickok and sent each other very passionate letterspic.twitter.com/aWRfOxFgwL
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VIRGINIA WOOLF (1882-1941) -english writer and feminist -bisexual -had many mental health problems which caused rifts in relationships -had a long term passionate relationship with rita sacksville-west, who helped woolf to be diagnosed with her mental illnessespic.twitter.com/Rsm7J79NfT
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LILI ELBE (1882-1931) -danish transgender woman -was the first woman to have gender reassignment surgery -married to gerda wegener, who helped lili through the process of the surgeries -wegener passed elbe off as her cousin to allow her to dress as a woman in publicpic.twitter.com/yIUfyuEPHY
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FRIDA KAHLO (1907-1954) -mexican artist -bisexual -first mexican artist to ben featured at the louvre -had an affair with actress tina modotti, who ended up introducing kahlo to her future husband, diego riverapic.twitter.com/g0I8pWENno
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she was truly the most dramatic of bisexuals. what a wild lifepic.twitter.com/OTaDl7JJeE
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honestly i want her back
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What. A. Bad. Ass.
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