Sapphic achillean, also known as sapphicchillean or sapphillean, is a term for when one considers oneself sapphic and achillean due to being both male or masculine-aligned and female or feminine-aligned and being attracted to men and women. A sapphic achillean person may or may not be also attracted to other genders.
Similar terms include anfisian.
History and Flags
The term and flag were created by Tumblr user sapphicchillean on June 29, 2018.[1] The term originally excluded WLM (women or women-aligned people loving men) and MLW (men or men-aligned people loving women).
The light blue of the flag represents the fluid relationship between gender and attraction, the dark blue MLM and NBLM, the yellow non-binary gender and attraction, the light pink the softness of gender and attraction, and the dark pink WLW and WLNB.
An alternate bigender-specific version of this flag was created by Tumblr user just-a-mogai-blog was created on July 10, 2018.[2]
On April 4, 2020, the current sapphic achillean flag was created by Reddit user zamonianbolton.[3] It is a combination of the achillean and sapphic flags.
An alternate version based on this flag was created by Reddit user ohyourearoach on July 29, 2020.[4] The light and dark blue stripes are from the achillean flag and represent masculine-aligned people loving masculine-aligned people, the white stripe represents gender experiences that are fluid and genderqueer, and the light and dark pink stripes are from the sapphic flag and represent feminine-aligned people loving feminine-aligned people. The symbol in the center is the overlapping flowers of the achillean and sapphic flags.