The amazing women I have been lucky enough to love, and who have loved me back gracefully, have given me the best memories. JoJo Siwa however took to TikTok to explain that “lesbian” is not a “slur”, but “gay” just “flows off the tongue for me”. When I told my mum my idea for this article, she wrinkled her brow and asked me, “ Is there any shame around the word ‘lesbian’? You know, the one you trip over yourself to emphasise you’re not when the subject of your politics comes up, out of fear people think you’ve become a lavender menace.

None of them were the weird, spooky omens that my fellow high school pupils had made them out to be. If the lesbian identity is just seen as a tool for the pleasure of others it can never be treated with respect.It really highlighted the need for truly intersectional women’s theory, and how necessary an open conversation about lesbian issues is.

The recent American gay marriage court decisions highlighted how out of touch Straight and even Queer identifying feminists are with Lesbians. Poems, letters, diaries, protests, activism – all these pieces of history, and for every new thing I learned, I would uncover more. Misty lives in Second Life and bases many of her outrageous short stories on her encounters and observations in that amazing world. The ratings/reviews displayed here may not be representative of every listing on this page, or of every review for these listings.Even more baffling was that many I talked to didn’t seem to make the connection that some Lesbians, like myself, are Women of Colour. Simple things like holding hands with a woman, napping together, and dancing around a kitchen in our PJs together reshaped the negative imagery school that had given me about lesbians. I don’t want my identity crowded by unfair stereotypes, it almost feels like lesbians are being forced to reclaim the term itself. Varsity is the independent newspaper for the University of Cambridge, established in its current form in 1947. Please familiarise yourself with our community guidelines to ensure that our community remains a safe and inclusive space for all.

The 19-year-old Dance Moms alum has been criticised for her views on the word “lesbian”, joking that it is similar to the common meme of people being disgusted by the word “moist”. Lesbians suffer from internalized misogyny just like anyone else; however women’s spaces never feel safe enough to talk about it. This is a very good thing for companies keen to jump onto the pride month marketing bandwagon, who both exploit and propagate the notion of ‘gay as norm’.Also if lesbianism is the closest feminism has to a nation of its own, where do bi, queer, non-defined, heterosexual, etc women and men feature in this nation? Years ago, when my forays into self-experimentation manifested as an awkward mullet, my relatives’ remarks were similar.