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Because pronouns areused to identify one’s gender, mistaking ormisunderstanding their pronouns can be hurtful. As a result, it’s critical to honor names and pronouns by habitually using them, as this supports a person’s identity. The term Sapphic is known as woman loving woman (WLW), or girls loving girls (GLG). It could also stand for lesbian, pansexual, queer, bisexual, or omnisexual. A sapphist is a woman, non-binary, and/or woman-aligned person attracted to other women. This attraction may or may not be exclusive. Despite their new relationship, Kerry was still in the closet and asked Kim to keep the relationship a secret. This caused tension and they eventually broke up. However, Kerry shows signs that she still loves Kim and wants to help her whenever she can. To avoid over-exposing the character of Mark Greene (Anthony Edwards), the producers and writers decided to add a second authority figure to take the weight off of that character. However, where Greene was seen as the friendly boss that everyone got along with, they wanted a boss that was far more by the book and antagonistic.

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. 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 term can be used as a modifier combined with other identities to show that one emphasizes or prioritizes their attraction to and relationships with other women/enbys. It may also be used as an identity on its own, and may be found particularly useful for individuals who know they are attracted to women/enbys but may be uncertain if they are attracted to other genders. It can also be used to describe a relationship between two women. Plenty of nonbinary people attracted to women and cisgender sapphics have similar experiences regarding relationships, life, and dating. It therefore makes sense that there should be an umbrella term to unite such individuals. It’s important to note that lesbians and sapphic aren’t the same, even though a lesbian could identify as sapphic. 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.

On August 14, 2015, Tumblr user lesbeux-moved designed the original sapphic flag. Two pink stripes go across the top and bottom of the sapphic flag, symbolizing love. A violet is in the center, which has traditionally been presented between women to represent their sapphic love. A stunning pair of violets sits in the heart of the original flag. Alcaeus of Mytilene composed in, and may have invented, the Sapphic stanza, [1] but it is his contemporary and compatriot Sappho whose example exerted the greatest influence, and for whom the verseform is now named. Both lived around 600 BCE on the island of Lesbos and wrote in the Aeolic dialect of Greek. During Season 12, Kerry's hip started to cause her pain after she slipped in the ambulance bay. After a lengthy internal struggle with whether or not she wanted to have surgery to correct her hip and dispel her of her life-long disability, Kerry finally decided to undergo a total hip replacement because she was no longer able to keep up with her work in the ER or her toddler son, Henry. During Season 11, a woman comes to the ER. Her name is Helen Kingsley and she is Kerry's biological mother. After years of search, Kerry finally learns the answers she was looking for. Her mother tells her that she was fifteen years old when Kerry was born and that she couldn't take care of her. She gave her up for adoption because she knew that she would have a better life than with her.Four-line stanza form A papyrus manuscript preserving Sappho's "Fragment 5", a poem written in Sapphic stanzas Quinn, Kenneth, ed. (1973). Catullus: The Poems (2nded.). London: St. Martin's Press. ISBN 0-333-01787-0. OCLC 925241564. Kerry’s sexuality being given such focus on a major show like ER was considered groundbreaking at the time in the LGBT+ community, with online lesbian communities such as “After Ellen” latching onto the character as one of the few portrayals of a lesbian on television at the time.