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Why is lesbian culture and community important?

It is unequivocally healthy and normal to find a sense of belonging in your lesbianism. Many people grow roots in their marginalised cultures because the world is harsh to the oppressed and a relatable community heals us.
Is lesbian separatism possible in 2023?

Q&A style posts on LesbianHerstory.com are an opportunity for readers to ask questions that serve as prompting topics for LH to write about. Questions can be advice-based, about our hot…
Lesbian Media Lesbians Love

*Updated April 2, 2024* We asked our supporters for their favourite lesbian movies, television shows, video games, apps, podcasts, YouTubers, books, artists, websites, musicians, magazines, and any other lesbian media…
Lesbian Visibility Week 2023: Female Homosexuality is Not Bigoted

For Lesbian Day of Visibility 2023, the team behind HER’s social media celebrated by calling lesbians bigots for only finding the female sex attractive. This should go without saying, for…
Boston Marriages and the Language of Lesbian Relationships

Maybe it was two women in your history textbook. Maybe it was your unmarried great aunt and her live-in ‘best friend’. We are all familiar with the story: two women…
Lesbian and Gay Nightlife in 1990s Northern England: An interview with Stuart Linden Rhodes

Stuart Linden Rhodes is a photographer and writer who captured gay and lesbian nightlife in 1990s Northern England. Stuart’s Instagram account @linden_archives features hundreds of posed and candid shots from…
“Lesbians Have Always Existed”: an interview with artist Jenifer Prince

Jenifer Prince is a visual artist and illustrator from Brazil. She combines mid-century comic aesthetics and pop culture references to depict lesbianism, “their love, life, sexuality and everything in between,”…
Sapphic Wales in the Nineteenth Century

Throughout history, lesbian and bisexual women have been marginalised, silenced, and had their stories erased. When you think of Welsh history, you probably do not think of lesbians. However, nineteenth-century…
How Should We Tell the Stories of “Bad” Lesbians from History in a Culture of Us vs. Them?

How do we write on complex, even harmful, lesbians from history in the age of “us vs. them”? How do we present the facts in a way that doesn’t omit…
The Male Gaze and Lesbian Censorship in Film

It’s of little surprise to most sapphic movie buffs that Hollywood doesn’t have the best track record when it comes to positive lesbian representation. From the widespread trope of “bury…
Today’s Lavender Menace: Why do lesbians support gay men?

I received a lot of support after I wrote The Lesbian Pinball: Gay Liberation vs. Women’s Liberation in August 2021. Lesbian feminists from all over the world resonated with the…
A Cellist’s Resistance: the bravery of Frieda Belinfante

The year is 1940. World War II has just begun. The talented Dutch cello player Frieda Belinfante has to give up the fame she has recently obtained as the first…
Why lesbian separatism is not escapist

There is a false narrative in the feminist community that lesbian separatism is escapist. There are legitimate criticisms–utopianism, rigidity, alienation–but the belief that lesbian separatism is escapism, running away into…
Make Feminism Venomous Again: first Roe v. Wade, next lesbian and gay rights

On the 24th of June, 2022, the U.S. Supreme Court eliminated the constitutional right to abortion just short of the 50th anniversary of Roe v Wade. As of April 7,…
Lesbian Tenth Muse: On Juana Inés de la Cruz and Sappho.

I love Lisi, but I do not pretend That Lisi corresponds my finesse, Well, if I judge her beauty possible, To her decorum and my apprehension I offend. – Sor…
Interview: T.S. from Black Lesbian Herstory

To commemorate Black history month, Lesbian Herstory spoke to T.S. from Black Lesbian Herstory about the joys, challenges, and importance of holding space to research, archive and curate the lives…
Lesbian Feminist Spirituality of the 1970s

One of my favorite lesbian stereotypes is our love for astrology. One would be hard pressed to find a lesbian without their sun sign in their social media bios, let…
Girlfriends or Gal Pals? Decoding Intimacy Between Women in Old Photographs

Love between women has existed forever, despite the crumbs of documentation and the meddling with evidence. Homosexuality didn’t begin with gay rights awareness in the 20th century. However, society still…
Patricia Highsmith: a Painful Lesson

Patricia Highsmith was the author of The Price of Salt (1952): the inspiration for the film Carol (2015). It was the first lesbian novel with a happy ending. However, while…
The Lesbian Pinball: Gay Liberation vs Women’s Liberation

Lesbians are pulled between solidarity with gay men, because of homophobia, and straight women, because of misogyny. We have prioritised solidarity with gay men or straight women at different points in history, depending on the contextual concerns.

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All (new-old)

Why is lesbian culture and community important?

Is lesbian separatism possible in 2023?

Lesbian Media Lesbians Love

Lesbian Visibility Week 2023: Female Homosexuality is Not Bigoted

Boston Marriages and the Language of Lesbian Relationships

Lesbian and Gay Nightlife in 1990s Northern England: An interview with Stuart Linden Rhodes

“Lesbians Have Always Existed”: an interview with artist Jenifer Prince

Sapphic Wales in the Nineteenth Century

How Should We Tell the Stories of “Bad” Lesbians from History in a Culture of Us vs. Them?

The Male Gaze and Lesbian Censorship in Film

Today’s Lavender Menace: Why do lesbians support gay men?

A Cellist’s Resistance: the bravery of Frieda Belinfante

Why lesbian separatism is not escapist

Make Feminism Venomous Again: first Roe v. Wade, next lesbian and gay rights

Lesbian Tenth Muse: On Juana Inés de la Cruz and Sappho.

Interview: T.S. from Black Lesbian Herstory

Lesbian Feminist Spirituality of the 1970s

Girlfriends or Gal Pals? Decoding Intimacy Between Women in Old Photographs

Patricia Highsmith: a Painful Lesson

The Lesbian Pinball: Gay Liberation vs Women’s Liberation