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A community for lesbians, people whose loved ones are lesbians, people who want information about lesbians, queer people, and allies! Trans lesbians are lesbians and are welcome.

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Are bisexuals welcome in this community? (slrpnk.net)

submitted 2 months ago by AnarchistArtificer@slrpnk.net to c/lesbians@lemmy.blahaj.zone

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I just wanted to check, because sometimes in sapphic spaces, I feel like I'm intruding. Sometimes it's made explicitly clear that I'm not welcome, which can be quite hurtful if the event or community describes itself with terms I use for myself, such as "sapphic" or "wlw". In this case though, this community is named "lesbians", so I wouldn't take it personally if y'all would prefer that bi women don't post or comment here, I just want to be clear about expectations; I once had someone accuse me of cultural appropriation for having carabiners on my tool harness, so I've ended up becoming a tad hypervigilant about overstepping.

Regardless of what the answer to this post is, it might be worthwhile to put something in the community info

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[–] celeste@kbin.earth 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The intro info is welcoming to queer people as a whole, so I've been participating even though I'm bi. I figure the subject of the community is lesbianism, so I wouldn't post a topic specifically about being bi here, but if I saw an article about a cool historical lesbian or had a question related to a lesbian loved one, posting about that would be fine.

[–] AnarchistArtificer@slrpnk.net 3 points 2 months ago

Yeah, that was my vibe. It's reasonable that even if this is my space (in that I am welcome here), it's still necessary to respect the scope and boundaries of the community in question. It's basically like saying "don't post tech help questions or productive discussions in !iiiiiiitttttttttttt@programming.dev , it's for memes"