Sappho, who treats you cruelly? She who avoids you
Soon with desire shall burn, your gifts requiting
Many times, yours to be whether she will or not.
Goddess, come once again, free me from longing.
Crown me with victory. O be my own ally. -- Sappho
Sappho's Fire
To watch Sappho’s Fire is to witness the strategies and philosophies and struggles that older lesbians face as they confront the uncertainties about growing older and their care in later life. The lesbians of Sappho’s Fire are from the New England region: they live in Cambridge, Boston, Providence, and smaller communities in Rhode Island and Massachusetts. They are women of Jewish, Caucasian, and African-American heritage with life-partners, without life-partners, and Veterans. Most of the women hold professional jobs: they are nurses, business owners, college professors; many are now retired. But what all these women have in common is a fire that makes them stomp their feet at old age, and resist what society tells them, that they're too old to do anything. Look for our trailer that will appear soon on our website and on YouTube, or drop us an email from the website’s email address if you want to be put on the guest list for pre-screening dates and other event dates.
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