The For All Who Love Foundation supports this celebration of Sapphic Identities.
About the project:
Sapphic Utopias is a month-long program unfolding during Pride Month at Time is the New Space, dedicated to creating and exploring spaces—both conceptual and physical—that center sapphic identities. Rooted in the historical absence of sapphic people from male-dominated cruising cultures, this project reclaims intimacy, sexuality, and storytelling through a feminist, queer, and anti-capitalist lens. We aim to build a tender, experimental environment where sapphic individuals and gender non-conforming people can safely explore desire and identity, free from patriarchal and heteronormative constraints.
Concept & Structure
The heart of the project is an immersive exhibition space that evokes and reinterprets the aesthetics and culture of traditional gay male cruising zones. Rather than mimicry, the exhibition offers a counter-archive—one that highlights the erasure of sapphic and gender non-conforming lives within mainstream LGBT+ narratives and creates space for their collective memory and futurity.
This exhibition will function as a hybrid between a cruising zone, a private diary, and a hidden utopia. Through soundscapes, visual installations, text, and performance, the exhibition invites visitors to navigate representations of sapphic intimacy, sexuality, and kinship. The project expands traditional ideas of romantic love by also honoring friendships, chosen families, intergenerational care, and forms of intimacy that are often overlooked.
Over the course of the month, a series of events will activate the space—fostering community, encouraging dialogue, and allowing for multiple modes of gathering. Some events will be exclusive to sapphic people and womxn, prioritizing safety and shared experience, while others will be open to a broader queer audience, emphasizing education, solidarity, and cross-community learning.
By aligning with Pride Month, the program strategically uses the increased visibility offered by the season. At the same time, it actively resists the commercial and depoliticized nature of mainstream pride celebrations. Instead, it reclaims this visibility to foreground grassroots activism, intimacy as resistance, and unapologetic queer expression.
