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"While no voices chanted
choruses without ours,
no woodlot bloomed in spring without song."

Just as Sappho's moving poem goes, a women's Utopias must be someplace where we can all voice our voice freely.

Let's look forward to it.

article from The Bristorian

Yes, the South Korean writer Han Jiang. An exciting news because she became the first asian female acknowledged by the Nobel prize, which will potentially raise people's awareness to female writers.

Today, I'll dig into Sappho, another prestigious female writer's story, and maybe we can be inspired by it to picture a women's Utopias. I'll divide the speech into two parts, Sappho as the lesbian icon and the female-only school on Lesbos island.

Lewis, Jone Johnson's article: “Sappho of Lesbos: Woman Poet of Ancient Greece.”

I have not had one word from her

Frankly I wish I were dead
When she left, she wept

a great deal: she said to me, "This parting must be
endured, Sappho. I go unwillingly."

I said, "Go, and be happy
but remember (you know
well) whom you leave shackled by love

If you forget me, think
of our gifts to Aphrodite
and all the loveliness that we shared

all the violet tiaras,
braided rosebuds, dill and
crocus twined around your young neck

myrrh poured on your head
and on soft mats girls with
all that they most wished for beside them

while no voices chanted
choruses without ours,
no woodlot bloomed in spring without song."

(Barnard Translation, Sappho, 1)

Raine, Dr. Sophie. “Heterotopia: Definition, Examples & Analysis.”

Academic article: Lesbos Island A Host Community Perspective