{"id":3386,"date":"2022-04-25T09:49:10","date_gmt":"2022-04-25T08:49:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/lgbtstaff\/?p=3386"},"modified":"2022-04-25T10:23:25","modified_gmt":"2022-04-25T09:23:25","slug":"lesbian-day-of-visibility-26th-april","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/lgbtstaff\/2022\/04\/25\/lesbian-day-of-visibility-26th-april\/","title":{"rendered":"Lesbian Day of Visibility – 26th April"},"content":{"rendered":"

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6 Lesbian Women You Really Need to Know About <\/strong><\/p>\n

By Alex Charilaou<\/p>\n

Even more so than women more generally, the contributions of lesbian women have been roundly swept from the history books in favour of heterosexual men. Nevertheless, some lesbian women have persisted in making a historical mark, and on Lesbian Day of Visibility we highlight just some of these amazing lesbian women who made the world a better place.<\/p>\n

Sappho<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Sappho was a Greek poet who famously wrote about women, love and sex. In one poem, she pines for goddess Aphrodite<\/a>, while in another she compares her muse (a \u2018girl\u2019) to a ripening apple and wild hyacinth flower<\/a>. It is from Sappho that we get the word lesbian: she was born on the Greek island of lesbos.<\/p>\n

Sara Josephine Baker<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The first woman to earn a public health doctorate from NYU, Baker was a renowned healthcare expert, whose interventions included school health programmes to prevent children becoming infected with dangerous diseases and helping to track down Typhoid Mary. In one year, Baker had single-handedly reduced the infant mortality rate by 39% in New York City.<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/strong>Jane Addams<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Addams, the first American women to receive the Nobel Peace Prize, was a staunch supporter of women\u2019s suffrage and a key figure in early 20th<\/sup> century anti-imperialist movements. A sociologist by training, Addams was a precise observer of the structures used by the American state to keep minorities and women oppressed, and successfully enabled people to organise and resist, not least through co-founding the American Civil Liberties Union.<\/p>\n

Gertrude Stein<\/strong><\/p>\n

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A ground-breaking modernist author, Stein lived with her partner Alice B. Toklas until the end of her life. Her bestselling novel, The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas<\/em>, was a memoir written from Toklas\u2019 perspective. Her other famous work, Tender Buttons<\/em>, was claimed early on by feminist and LGBTQ+ movements as giving voice through language to those who language wasn\u2019t built for.<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/strong>Audre Lorde<\/strong><\/p>\n

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African-American writer Audre Lorde self-identified as a \u2018Black lesbian feminist socialist mother of two\u2019, and in her activism as much as her creative work Lorde sought to give a voice to marginalised groups, speaking truth to power in an intersectional way. Check out Lorde\u2019s most famous love poem, Recreation<\/em><\/a>, as well as one of her most combative, hopeful poems, A Litany For Survival<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/strong>Johanna Sigur\u00f0ard\u00f3ttir<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The first openly LGBTQ+ head of government anywhere in the world, Sigur\u00f0ard\u00f3ttir put women and LGBTQ+ rights very high up her agenda as the first female prime minster of Iceland. Under her leadership, same-sex marriage was legalised in the country, and she and her partner\u2019s civil union was one of the first to be transferred into marriage.<\/p>\n

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