Join us on the Lesbian beach for a sapphic special episode with someone I am very lucky to call a friend: Leah Davidson. Leah is a queer therapist, a hiking dyke, a lesbian mom, an extremely clever reader and an absolute joy. On the beach in Skala Eressos, we talk about the early days of the lesbian* community that travels to Lesvos every summer, in search of connection, queer roots, and poetry. Tune in now to transport yourself to the Sappho Festival and learn about some of Leah’s favourite reads.

Find out more about lovely, lovely Leah on leahdavidson.com or by following Leah Davidson Psychotherapy on Facebook. For some visual impressions of the festival and the island, follow @queerlitpodcast on Instagram and Twitter.

Places, people and texts mentioned:

https://lesvossolidarity.org/en/
@lesvossolidarity
@safepassage.lesvossolidarity
@gagaanimalcare
Meg-John Barker
Tzeli Hadjidimitriou
https://www.odoiporikon.com/node/155
Selby Wynn Schwartz’ After Sappho
Natalie Barney
Renée Vivien
Diana Souhami
Mytilene
Carmen Maria Machado’s In The Dream House
Carolina De Robertis's Cantoras
Jane Traies
Torrey Peters’ Detransition, Baby!
Judy Grahn’s A Woman is Talking to Death and Another Mother Tongue: Gay Words, Gay Worlds
Eleanor Medhurst ( @dressingdykes )
Laura Kate Dale (ed.) Gender Euphoria
Ohana ( @ohanahotellesvos )
Evelyn Torton Beck’s Nice Jewish Girls: A Lesbian Anthology
Audre Lorde’s Siter Outsider
Adrienne Rich’s On Lies, Secrets, and Silence
Pat Parker
Briona Simone Jones‘ Mouths of Rain
Sister Write
AJ ( @goodfoodbyaj )
Judith Butler

Questions you should be able to respond to after listening:

1.What is your favourite queer beach read?
2.How much do you know about Sappho? Please look her up and read some of her poetry.
3.Leah talks about pinkie rings as queer code and Sappho has created another one through her poetry: violets. Which other queer codes do you know?
4.Leah talks about many moments of queer joy that she has experienced on Lesvos. What is a space of queer joy for you?