The first thing you should do as an ally to sapphic people is to believe them when they tell you about their identity. Don’t try to argue them out of it or make the mistake of thinking you could know more about how they feel than they do. It could also help if you worked on your mindset. Working on your attitude means you challenge your concept of gender, sexuality, and sex. In Season 3, Kerry is promoted to be an ER Attending alongside Mark Greene. This was the beginning of a long friendly rivalry between the two over several positions within the ER. Also, during this time, Mark discovered that Jeanie Boulet, a Physician's Assistant, was HIV-positive. Kerry was the first to defend Jeanie and fought Mark so that she could keep her job. Later, Dr. Donald Anspaugh, the Hospital Chief of Staff, let Jeanie keep her job with measures of precaution put in place. After this, her and Mark who had come to terms with Jeanie drafted a paper on ER policy concerning employees with HIV or AIDS.

Plaid-skirted schoolgirls are groomed by a secret government agency to become the newest members of the elite national-defense group, D.E.B.S. A newlywed bride becomes infatuated with another woman who questions her sexual orientation, promoting a stir among the bride's family and friends. I am in love with Sapphic Verse when done the original way. I have always loved phonics and have begun a study of Gaeilge with its beautiful sounds. I have to get to some writing; I’m a little bit behind. But I would still like to mention my first reactions to “The Eunuch” before that experience dissipates. [Reasoned thought may or may not be forthcoming. Sorry for the cursory thoughts.] Even so, your not-too-long-ago comment on Sapphic meter (in response to my article on Samuel Cowper–who, as you pointed out–also attempted a sapphic poem) was the bait that drew me into the subject in the first place. I do thank you for that! Along with a second thanks for keeping the present conversation moving forward!

And of course Gideon the Ninth has been followed with Harrow the Ninth- which like mentioned in this list also turned my brain to mush (I actually re-read them both again- straight after finishing them!) Kipling, Rudyard (c. 1919). Rudyard Kipling's Verse: inclusive ed., 1885-1918. Toronto: Copp Clark. OCLC 697598774. In season 8, Kerry meets Sandy Lopez, an attractive young firefighter. They get along well, but clash over Kerry being closeted: Sandy thinks it is dishonest to stay closeted, and eventually forcibly outs Kerry by kissing her publicly. Despite this, Kerry and Sandy remain together and happy for a time, even having a son together, until Sandy’s tragic death on the job. The Sapphic stanza, named after Sappho, is an Aeolic verse form of four lines. Originally composed in quantitative verse and unrhymed, since the Middle Ages imitations of the form typically feature rhyme and accentual prosody. It is "the longest lived of the Classical lyric strophes in the West". [1] Definitions [ edit ] I commend you for your attempt to (re)create “long-short” sapphic poetry in English. I hope you will submit one along with a note of explanation to the SCP when you are ready to share it.

No sapphic experience is identical to another. You can’t tell whether someone is sapphic by looking at them, observing their personality, or their physical aesthetic. None of these characteristics can provide a clue as to how a person identifies, and this is as true for sapphics as it is for any gender or sexual orientation. It can be used as the non-exclusive counterpart to lesbian. Lesbian and sapphic are the woman-loving-woman counterparts to faunic and daunic, which are non-men-loving-non-men. Here, for example, is an excerpt from a poem by Swineburne entitled, appropriately enough, “Sapphics”: As time wore on, the character would steadily evolve and become closer and nicer to her co-workers. This change was slowly implemented when Robert Romano (Paul McCrane) was introduced. The grandest of all measures,” Tennyson called the classical alcaic meter; but could it be brought over grandly into English? Other Greek and Latin lyric meters had been Englished with some success. The sapphic, for instance: dozens of English sapphics from the sixteenth century onward attest to its virtual naturalization into the English tradition. (emphasis mine) ( Project Muse)

Imi: This post is an absolute massive task. Until this year, it has been mostly undertaken by Ellie due to her generally having more free time but this was not the case this year. While I always knew it was a big job, I have never fully appreciated the sheer amount of work that was put into Ellie’s research and inputting of data – I would just slide in near the end to reformat the post, making some graphics and add a few of my own book suggestions. The most common and accepted form of Sapphic verse in English consists of a variable number of strophes consisting of four lines each. The first three lines of each strophe are written in an identical and unvarying pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables. The fourth line is shorter and follows a pattern unique to itself. The pattern is as follows (with strong syllables represented by “D” and unstressed syllables represented by “d” with (a) being a syllable that can be either stressed or unstressed (but best done consistently): Two teenage girls in small-town Sweden. Elin is beautiful, popular, and bored with life. Agnes is friendless, sad, and secretly in love with Elin.