On the Shelf for February 2018 - The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Episode 39

On the Shelf for February 2018

The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 39 with Heather Rose Jones

Your monthly update on what the Lesbian Historic Motif Project has been doing.

In this episode we talk about:

• The fiction submission window is over
• Send us your upcoming release notices about lesbian historical fiction
• Lesbian Book Bingo
  • https://jae-fiction.com/lesbian-book-bingo/
  • My Lesbian Book Bingo stories http://alpennia.com/tags/lesbian-book-bingo
• A new queer history podcast: History is Gay podcast
  • Email: historyisgaypodcast@gmail.com
  • Twitter: @HistoryisGayPod
  • Tumblr: historyisgaypodcast.tumblr.com
  • Website: https://www.historyisgaypodcast.com
• Recent and upcoming publications covered on the blog
  • Articles focused on linguistics
  • Books on Charlotte Cushman
• Announcing this month’s author guest, Ellen Klages
• New and forthcoming fiction
  • All Out: The No-Longer-Secret Stories of Queer Teens Through the Ages ed by Saundra Mitchell
  • The Comfortable Courtesan: Being Memoirs by Clorinda Cathcart (that has been a Lady of the Town these several years) Vol 1 by L. A. Hall  (See also the author’s website https://www.clorinda.org)
  • Tremontaine - Season 3
  • SHIELDMAIDEN BOOK 2: JEWEL OF FIRE by GL Roberts (Bella Books), Feb 2018
• Ask Sappho: Amy Herman-Pall asks, “I believe that your area of study and expertise is mostly European in nature, but I wonder if you know of any historical accounts of lesbians in other cultures, especially in Asia, or the Indian sub-continent?”
  • Rupp, Leila J. 2009. Sapphistries: A Global History of Love Between Women. New York University Press, New York. ISBN 978-0-8147-7726-8
  • Habib, Samar. 2009. Arabo-Islamic Texts on Female Homosexuality: 850-1780 A.D. Teneo Press, Youngstown. ISBN 978-1-934844-11-3
  • Amer, Sahar. 2008. Crossing Borders: Love Between Women in Medieval French and Arabic Literatures.University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia. ISBN 978-0-8122-4087-0
  • Vanita, Ruth. 2008. Same - Sex Love in India - A Literary history. Penguin Books, New York. ISBN 978-0143102069
  • Vanita, Ruth and Saleem Kidwai, editors. 2001. Same-Sex Love in India: Readings in Indian Literature. Palgrave, New York. ISBN 978-0312293246

A transcript of this podcast is available here.

Links to the Lesbian Historic Motif Project Online

• Website: http://alpennia.com/lhmp
• Blog: http://alpennia.com/blog
• RSS: http://alpennia.com/blog/feed/
• Twitter: @LesbianMotif
• Discord: Contact Heather for an invitation to the Alpennia/LHMP Discord server
• The Lesbian Historic Motif Project Patreon

Links to Heather Online

• Website: http://alpennia.com
• Email: Heather Rose Jones
• Twitter: @heatherosejones
• Facebook: Heather Rose Jones (author page)