100 Women We Love: Class of 2024
Our annual celebration of epic queer women changing the world.
Savannah Sipple
Savannah Sipple is the author of WWJD & Other Poems (Sibling Rivalry Press, 2019), which was included on the American Library Association's Over the Rainbow Recommended LGBTQ Reading List. It explores what it is to be a queer woman in Appalachia and is rooted in its culture and in her body. Savannah is a professor, editor, and writing mentor who resides in Lexington, Kentucky with her wife. Find her on twitter @savsip, Facebook, or at https://www.savannahsipple.com/.
Inside Kentucky’s Lesbian Scene
Queer women asked where to meet each other in Kentucky, and two women answered with an epic monthly party.
I Am Worth The Space I Inhabit: On Coming Out, Again (& Again)
It’s a risk to be out at work, to wear my hair in a pompadour, to tell the new handyman that I have a wife. I take that risk each day because as much as there’s possible danger, there’s also relief.
I Had A Panic Attack At My First Pride. What Happened Next Was Beautiful.
“F*ck my rainbow wristband. F*ck my tomboy underwear. I was a fraud. And surely these people could tell.”
I’m A White Lesbian In Kentucky, My Wife Is A Black Woman: We Can’t Ignore Willful Ignorance, But Everyone Around Us Does
Friends say, “I love you,” but really, do they? If they support the policies that treat me like I’m less than them, do they love me?
