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A show about queer women in history and historic literature, plus coverage of the field of sapphic historical fiction. Content note: May include discussions of sex within an academic context.
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Wednesday Oct 21, 2020
Wednesday Oct 21, 2020
Interview with Nyri Bakkalian
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 175 with Heather Rose Jones
An interview with Dr. Nyri Bakkalian about her historical research and her cross-time novel.
In this episode we talk about:
- What part time travel plays in Grey Dawn
- Representing a variety of gender experiences in historical fiction
- The challenges and pleasures of being a historian writing fiction
- What does the American Civil War have to do with “samurai with Gatling guns”?
- Books mentioned
A transcript of this podcast may be available here. (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 Nyri Bakkalian Online
- Website: Riverside Wings Blog
- Twitter: @riversidewings
- Facebook: Dr. Nyri Bakkalian
- Patreon:Dr. Nyri A. Bakkalian
Wednesday Oct 21, 2020
Wednesday Oct 21, 2020
On the Shelf for September 2020
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 174 with Heather Rose Jones
Your monthly update on what the Lesbian Historic Motif Project has been doing.
In this episode we talk about:
- The LHMPodcast is going independent!
- Call for submissions for the 2021 LHMP audio short story series. See here for details.
- Recent and upcoming publications covered on the blog
- Hatem, Mervat. 1986. "The Politics of Sexuality and Gender in Segregated Patriarchal Systems: The Case of Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Egypt" in Feminist Studies vol. 12, no. 2 250-274.
- Vanita, Ruth. 2005. "Born of Two Vaginas: Love and Reproduction between Co-Wives in Some Medieval Indian Texts" in GLQ 11:4 547-577.
- Phillips, Kim M. & Barry Reay. 2011. Sex Before Sexuality: A Premodern History. Polity Press, Cambridge. ISBN 978-0-7456-2522-5
- Duggan, Lisa. 1993. “The Trials of Alice Mitchell: Sensationalism, Sexology and the Lesbian Subject in Turn-of-the-Century America” in Queer Studies: An Interdisciplinary Reader, ed. Robert J. Corber and Stephen Valocchi. Oxford: Blackwell. pp.73-87
- *Wahl, Elizabeth Susan. 1999. Invisible Relations: Representations of Female Intimacy in the Age of Enlightenment. Stanford University Press, Stanford. ISBN 0-8047-3650-2
- Rizzo, Betty. 1994. Companions without Vows: Relationships among Eighteenth-Century British Women. Athens: University of Georgia Press. ISBN 978-0-8203-3218-5
- Vicinus, Martha. 2004. Intimate Friends: Women Who Loved Women, 1778-1928. University of Chicago Press, Chicago. ISBN 0-226-85564-3
- Marcus, Sharon. 2007. Between Women: Friendship, Desire, and Marriage in Victorian England. Princeton University Press, Princeton. ISBN 0-691-12835-9
- This month’s author guest is to be announced.
- This month’s essay is about 17th century poet Katherine Philips.
- New and forthcoming fiction
- Grey Dawn: A Tale of Abolition and Union by Nyri A. Bakkalian
- Stone's Throe by C.E. Murphy
- Barbed Wire by Erin Wade
- Heart Sings: Heart Series #2 by Luci Dreamer
- The Testimony of Alys Twist by Suzannah Dunn
- Islands of Mercy by Rose Tremain
- The Secret Lives of Church Ladies by Deesha Philyaw
- Testimony by Paula Martinac
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)
Tuesday Oct 20, 2020
Tuesday Oct 20, 2020
“Your Fingers Like Pen and Ink” by Jeannelle M. Ferreira
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 173 with Heather Rose Jones
The LHMPodcast fiction series presents a story by Jeannelle M. Ferreira, set in a late 19th century Russian Jewish community. Jeannelle is also the author of The Covert Captain: or, A Marriage of Equals. The story is narrated by Violet Dixon, who also recorded the audiobook of The Covert Captain.
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)
Links to Jeannelle M. Ferreira Online
- Website: https://jeannellewrites.wordpress.com/
- Twitter: @JeannelleWrites
Tuesday Oct 20, 2020
Tuesday Oct 20, 2020
Artificial Scarcity of Representation: Asexual Artemis/Lesbian Diana
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 172 with Heather Rose Jones
An exploration of the mythic figures of Artemis and Diana
In this episode we talk about:
- Their complex and contradictory mythology and religious traditions
- How Artemis/Diana was represented in later literature and art
- Diana & Callisto: the lesbian tradition
- Diana vs. Venus: the asexual tradition
- Why we need to stop fighting over them
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)
Tuesday Oct 20, 2020
Tuesday Oct 20, 2020
Book Appreciation: Artemis/Diana in Fiction
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 171 with Heather Rose Jones
In the Book Appreciation segments, our featured authors (or your host) will talk about one or more favorite books with queer female characters in a historic setting.
- In this episode we talk about works featuring the goddess of the hunt, either n her Greek form as Artemis or as Roman Diana.
- Books mentioned
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)
Tuesday Oct 20, 2020
Tuesday Oct 20, 2020
Diana and Callisto: The Sometimes Problematic Search for Representation (reprise)
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 170 with Heather Rose Jones
Ovid’s myth of Diana and Callisto had lasting popularity through the medieval and early modern periods and provided a context for some unexpected representation of erotic interactions between women. But hoo boy are there some problematic aspects to this topic!
In this episode we talk about:
- The goddess Diana and her attributes
- The myths of Diana and Acteon, and of Diana and Callisto
- Virginity and chastity and what they have to do with lesbians
- Why the Callisto story has some major issues when considered through a transgender lens
- Female homoerotic art and the male gaze
- The goddess Diana as a symbol of women’s separatist lives in literature
- This topic is discussed in one or more entries of the Lesbian Historic Motif Project here:
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)
Tuesday Oct 20, 2020
Tuesday Oct 20, 2020
On the Shelf for August 2020
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 169 with Heather Rose Jones
Your monthly update on what the Lesbian Historic Motif Project has been doing.
In this episode we talk about:
- The podcast is four years old!
- Recent and upcoming publications covered on the blog
- Armenian astrology text (British Library Ms. Or. 6471)
- Kuefler, Mathew (ed). 2007. The History of Sexuality Sourcebook. Broadview Press, Ontario. ISBN 978-1-55111-738-6
- Engelstein, Laura. 1990. "Lesbian Vignettes: A Russian Triptych from the 1890s" in Signs vol. 15, no. 4 813-831.
- Robertson, Jennifer. 1999. "Dying to Tell: Sexuality and Suicide in Imperial Japan" in Signs vol. 25, no. 1 1-35.
- Hatem, Mervat. 1986. "The Politics of Sexuality and Gender in Segregated Patriarchal Systems: The Case of Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Egypt" in Feminist Studies vol. 12, no. 2 250-274.
- Phillips, Kim M. & Barry Reay. 2011. Sex Before Sexuality: A Premodern History. Polity Press, Cambridge. ISBN 978-0-7456-2522-5
- TBD
- This month we have a theme focusing on the mythological figure of Artemis/Diana:
- Reprise: Diana and Callisto: The Sometimes Problematic Search for Representation
- Book Appreciation: Stories involving Artemis/Diana
- Asexual Artemis/Lesbian Diana: Artificial Scarcity and Representation
- Original Fiction: “Your Fingers Like Pen and Ink” by Jeannelle M. Ferreira
- New and forthcoming fiction
- Call for submissions for the 2021 LHMP audio short story series. See here for details.
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)
Monday Oct 19, 2020
Monday Oct 19, 2020
Humors, Horoscopes, and Homosexuality
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 168 with Heather Rose Jones
In this episode we talk about:
- This history of astrological explanations for sexual preference
- The lack of a “unified model of homosexuality”
- The relation of gender and sexual preference under the “one-sex model”
- The basics of humoral theory
- How sex affects humoral balance
- The connections between astrology and humoral theory
- How fiction can use this topic to explore characterization
- Books used
- Amer, S. 2009. “Medieval Arab Lesbians and 'Lesbian-Like'” in Journal of the History of Sexuality, 18(2), 215-236.
- Brooten, Bernadette J. 1997. Love Between Women: Early Christian Responses to Female Homoeroticism.University of Chicago Press, Chicago. ISBN 0-226-07591-5
- Cadden, Joan. 1993. Meanings of Sex Difference in the Middle Ages: Medicine, Science, and Culture. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-48378-6
- Decker-Hauff, Hansmartin and Rudolf Seigel (editors). 1967. Die Cronik der Grafen von Zimmern: Handschriften 580 und 581 der Fürstlich Fürstenbergischen Hofbibliothek Donaueschingen. Jan Thorbecke Verlag, Konatanz und Stuttgart.
- Habib, Samar. 2009. Arabo-Islamic Texts on Female Homosexuality: 850-1780 A.D. Teneo Press, Youngstown. ISBN 978-1-934844-11-3
- Hubbard, Thomas K. 2003. Homosexuality in Greece and Rome: A Sourcebook of Basic Documents. University of California Press, Berkeley. ISBN 978-0-520-23430-7
- Laqueur, Thomas. 1990. Making Sex: Body and Gender from the Greeks to Freud. Harvard University Press, Cambridge. ISBN 0-674-54349-1
- Lemay, Helen Rodnite. 1982. “Human Sexuality in Twelfth- through Fifteenth-Century Scientific Writings” in Sexual Practices and the Medieval Church, Vern L. Bullough and James Brundage eds. Prometheus Books, Buffalo. ISBN 0-87975-141-X
- Nederman, Cary J. and Jacqui True. 1996. “The Third Sex: The Idea of the Hermaphrodite in Twelfth-Century Europe” in Journal of the History of Sexuality 6:4: 497-517.
- Traub, Valerie. 2002. The Renaissance of Lesbianism in Early Modern England. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. ISBN 0-521-44885-9
- Velasco, Sherry. 2011. Lesbians in Early Modern Spain. Vanderbilt University Press, Nashville. ISBN 978-0-8265-1750-0
- This topic is discussed in one or more entries of the Lesbian Historic Motif Project here:
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)
Monday Oct 19, 2020
Monday Oct 19, 2020
Book Appreciation with Luci Dreamer
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 167 with Heather Rose Jones
In the Book Appreciation segments, our featured authors (or your host) will talk about one or more favorite books with queer female characters in a historic setting.
In this episode we talk about:
- The book that started her love of historic fiction
- Text versus audio-books
- Books mentioned
A transcript of this podcast may be available here. (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 Luci Dreamer Online
- Website: Luci Dreamer
- Twitter: @LuciDreamer70
Monday Oct 19, 2020
Monday Oct 19, 2020
Interview with Luci Dreamer
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 166 with Heather Rose Jones
A series of interviews with authors of historically-based fiction featuring queer women.
In this episode we talk about:
- Luci’s plans for the trilogy
- The call of the Klondike
- Handling cross-gender performance
- The book’s origins in Wynona Earp fanfic
- Books mentioned
A transcript of this podcast may be available here. (Transcripts are added as 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 Luci Dreamer Online
- Website: Luci Dreamer
- Twitter: @LuciDreamer70