It’s time to talk about sapphic artists. The tradition dates back to Sappho, a poet from Greece, who wrote about her relationships with other women, centered around love. Often criticised for her work, Sappho’s writing was destroyed by the Catholic Church because of the imagery she created about lesbian love. The term “sapphic” originates from the poet, honoring her legacy and her authenticity in a time when women were often seen as property and subjects to men. Throughout history, sapphic women have faced oppression and been forced to adapt through lavender marriages, a convenience for a man and women to hide their sexual orientation from the public, among other expressions of hidden sexuality, according to History.com. Even in modern times, lesbians and sapphic people face marginalization, often being reduced to a fetish by society and facing less representation in media and daily life than other LGBTQ+ factions. Recently, that’s been changing.