As a queer woman, I really felt a deep connection to the "Re-Queering Sappho" article. I really related to the feelings that Haselswerdt had about male academia trying to de-queer Sappho. Haselswerdt said that it was really difficult and it made her defensive when her male colleagues suggested that Sappho was simply a male poet putting on a female persona. I think that this would be a really big stretch to assume that she was either a man or writing from a heterosexual perspective. It seems to deny the obviously homosexual situations that are present in some of her poems. One of these poems is the "You Know How I Loved You".
I find it really fascinating that Sappho includes such beautifully soft imagery surrounding nature and the feminine. Haselswerdt discussed the cultural norm where male homosexual relationships were very rigid and that Sappho describes her relationships with women as being more give and take on both sides. I think that this plays into the fluidity of the natural world that she imagines in the poems. Like in "You Know How I Loved You" she describes things with the words "draped" and "drenched" to describe the woman she is talking about. This is paired with the delicate description of the flowers and it seems very delicate. Which, by the description of Haselswerdt, seems like the opposite of male homosexual relationships.