(19) "Female homosexuality is known as tribadism or lesbianism.

"Abha Dawesar's Babyji: A Revelation of Tribadism ." Feminism and Women's Writing.

FXBoi had just split from their (FXBoi's preferred pronoun) previous band and was on the musical rebound when they met Pizza Cupcake, who joked that FXBoi should write a song about tribadism (aka scissoring).

In Israel she meets up with various Israeli and Palestinian LGBT organizations, including the Israeli lesbian group, Mesolelot (" tribadism ," the act of rubbing one's genitals against another's, a Talmudic synonym for "lesbian").

The only term with more transhistorical and transcultural reach, I argued, is "tribade," because many languages and cultures conceptualize women who desired and had sex with women as engaging in the rubbing of bodies that in English is known as tribadism . (As an aside, I would like to say that the correct pronunciation of the word " tribadism " has never been clear to me.