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 (fluidly or simultaneously), and being attracted to men and women. They identify as MLM and WLW however, they do not identify as WLM or MLW, one only feels attraction to women as a woman and only feels attraction to men as a man. One does not feel attraction to women as a man, or attraction to men as a woman. A sapphic achillean person may or may not be also attracted to other genders.
Similar terms include anfisian and poudrettian.
Flag
The term and flag were created by Tumblr user sapphicchillean on June 29, 2018.[1] Light blue represents the fluid relationship between gender and attraction. Dark blue represents MLM and NBLM. Yellow represents non-binary genders and attraction. Light pink represents the softness of gender and attraction. Dark pink represents WLW and WLNB.
On April 4, 2020, the current sapphic achillean flag was created by Reddit user zamonianbolton.[2] 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.[3] 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.
The purple sapphic achillean flag was created by an anonymous creator on May 8, 2021. It was created by multiplying the sapphic and achillean flags and erasing the parts of the flower that did not overlay each other.