The Heterodoxy of the Sapphic and Uranic Bond

Through the haze of traditional and modern romanticism, the concept of love has been seen as an elusive entity inseparable from sexual union, especially when it is shared between two individuals of the same binary gender. The nouveau consensus is that a woman cannot be ‘in love’ with another woman or a man cannot be ‘in love’ with another man sans anticipation of sexual contact; but what is this phenomenon known as ‘falling in love’, truly?

In the sinister fiction Progeny of Tradition, one is introduced to the concept of two individuals of the same gender apprehending the physis and anados of one another and unknowingly contributing through their interactions, deeds and dis- coveries, to each other’s becoming…