On the Shelf for March 2021 - The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Episode 196

On the Shelf for March 2021

The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 196 with Heather Rose Jones

Your monthly roundup of history, news, and the field of sapphic historical fiction.

In this episode we talk about:

• The topics that historical fiction flinches away from
• Stories picked for the 2021 Fiction Series
• Recent and upcoming publications covered on the blog
  • Choquette, Leslie. 2001. “’Homosexuals in the City: Representations of Lesbian and Gay Space in Nineteenth-Century Paris” in Merrick, Jeffrey & Michael Sibalis, eds. Homosexuality in French History and Culture. Harrington Park Press, New York. ISBN 1-56023-263-3
  • Vicinus, Martha. 1992. "'They Wonder to Which Sex I Belong': The Historical Roots of the Modern Lesbian Identity" in Feminist Studies vol. 18, no. 3 467-497.
  • Binhammer, Katherine. 2002. "Thinking Gender with Sexuality in 1790s' Feminist Thought" in Feminist Studies vol 28, no 3. pp. 667-690.
  • Boyd, Nan Alamilla. 2013. "The History of the Idea of the Lesbian as a Kind of Person" in Feminist Studies vol. 39, no. 2 362-365.
• Interview with Mari Ness about Madame de Murat and the salon fairy tales
  • Resistance and Transformation: On Fairy Tales by Mari Ness (Aqueduct Press)
• New and forthcoming fiction
  • A Call to Justice (series #3) by S.W. Andersen
  • The Wife in the Attic by Rose Lerner
  • Fishwives by Sally Bellerose
  • Flying High by G.B. Baldassari
  • ”Bump in the Night” by Lara Kinsey
  • The Railwalkers by Ruth Hanson
  • The Ledge Light: New London by Diana Perkins
  • Eleutheria: Chronique des Amazones by Helena Manenti
  • Girls in Black (Ranger Paraversum Book 2) by Vesna Kurilic
• Interview with Aliette de Bodard
  • The inspirations for using a pre-colonial fantasy-Vietnam as a setting
  • Themes of colonization and apocalypse
  • Future plans for space pirates inspired by Ching Shih and other pirates of the south China Sea
    • Fireheart Tiger by Aliette de Bodard
    • In the Vanishers’ Palace by Aliette de Bodard
    • Dominion of the Fallen series by Aliette de Bodard
    • Xuya Universe series by Aliette de Bodard
    • Recommended work: Unconquerable Sun by Kate Elliott (gender-bent Alexander the Great in space with sapphic subplot)
    • Recommended work: When the Tiger Came Down the Mountain by Nghi Vo (historic fantasy with f/f tiger-human romance)

A transcript of this podcast is available here. (Interview transcripts added when available.)

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)

Links to Aliette de Bodard Online

• Website: AlietteDeBodard.com
• Twitter: @aliettedb
• Patreon: Aliette de Bodard

Links to Mari Ness Online

• Website: Blogging with Dragons
• Essays: Mari’s essays at Tor.com
• Twitter: @mari_ness
• Patreon: Mari Ness