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Apr 25 • 4 tweets • 2 min read Twitter logo Read on Twitter
DIVA magazine (which we can't tag as it blocks us) has released the results of its 2023 Survey. You can download a pdf of the report here: diva-magazine.com/2023/04/24/the…
In Linda Riley's introduction, she reminisces on the reason for DIVA's introduction in 1994. We remember the magazine from the late 1990s, and used to read it. Image
Fast forward to 2023, and in every age group who took part in the DIVA survey, the percentage of lesbians was below 50%. Across all age groups, 35% said they were lesbians, with 9% being asexual.
We actually took part in this survey despite no longer being readers of DIVA (or allowed to interact with them on Twitter!) so we gave their lesbian stats a little helping hand. In terms of reaching lesbians though, it seems DIVA has had its day. #LesbianVisibilityWeek

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Apr 26
#LesbianVisibilityWeek kicked off with the announcement by Just Like Us that 79% of lesbians in their study felt ashamed. With the caveat that we don’t know how the research was conducted or who was included as a young lesbian, this figure is really concerning. Image
As lesbians and researchers, a result like this raises lots of questions for us. Are young lesbians ashamed of being part of a bigger ‘community’, or of being lesbian full stop? Which factors help account for this? What do these young lesbians need to improve their wellbeing?
Sadly, #LesbianVisibilityWeek isn’t going to provide any answers to these questions. A quick look at the official website for the week, lesbianvisibilityweek.com, informs us that the week is ‘powered by DIVA and Stonewall’.
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Jan 8
We’ve posted before about the Oban Lesbian Weekend, a summer event which is run as a private commercial enterprise. Despite the name, the event is open to anyone identifying as ‘LGBTQI+ women or non binary people’.
When we approached the organiser of OLW last year, we acknowledged that her commercial events can be for anyone she wishes, but asked her to consider that use of the word ‘lesbian’ is misleading for women genuinely looking for lesbian events.
We were told that the organiser found ‘lesbian’ to be a convenient shorthand to describe her events. We were accused of ‘dogwhistle transphobia’ and excluded from the online community for the event.
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Dec 19, 2022
Hi @kezdugdale, we're Lorraine and Jenny and we run this account. You won't have heard of us- we're a small, grassroots group of lesbians who are worried about what is happening in Scotland.
archive.vn/NiVFx
We don't get invited to give evidence to committees, and our views are routinely ignored or misrepresented by government funded LGBTQI organisations. The Government has only been interested in hearing from groups who agree with it, which is no way to make good law.
In this egregious attack on women and grassroots feminist groups, you call for facts and claim that there is no evidence of harm from self-ID. Of course there's no evidence, because no-one in those countries has cared enough about women to look.
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Jun 18, 2022
A group of sociologists from Boston University is doing a study of ‘contemporary lesbian culture’. They’re using what they describe as a ‘broad’ definition of lesbian, to include ‘bi’ lesbians, ‘trans’ lesbians, and ‘lesbian men’. 1/
The inclusion of people who are not and cannot be lesbians in a study of lesbian culture devalues both the study and the experience of lesbians in an increasingly difficult and hostile environment. 2/
Going along with the lie that men can be women carries the implication that lesbians should be attracted to men, a fundamentally homophobic concept that contributes to the removal of lesbian rights and lesbian spaces. 3/
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