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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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Monday Oct 19, 2020
Monday Oct 19, 2020
On the Shelf for July 2020
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 165 with Heather Rose Jones
Your monthly update on what the Lesbian Historic Motif Project has been doing.
In this episode we talk about:
- Recent and upcoming publications covered on the blog
- Boyd, David Lorenzo & Ruth Mazo Karras. 1995. "The Interrogation of a Male Transvestite Prostitute in Fourteenth-Century London" in GLQ vol. 1, 459-465.
- Klosowska, Anna. 2005. Queer Love in the Middle Ages. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 1-4039-6342-8
- Traub, Valerie. 1994. “The (In)Significance of ‘Lesbian’ Desire in Early Modern England” in Queering the Renaissance ed. by Jonathan Goldberg. Duke University Press, Durham and London. ISBN 0-8223-1381-2
- Stephens, Dorothy. 1994. “Into Other Arms: Amoret’s Evasion”” in Queering the Renaissance ed. by Jonathan Goldberg. Duke University Press, Durham and London. ISBN 0-8223-1381-2
- Crawford, Katherine. 2007. European Sexualities, 1400-1800. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0521548403
- An early 17th century Armenian astrology manual depicting sex between women
- 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.
- This month’s author guest is still being arranged.
- New and forthcoming fiction
- Love, Wherever it Falls by Katherine Chandler
- I Love You, Nora Whispered by Kathy L. Salt
- Budding Romance by Lara Kinsey
- Resurrectionist: The Diary of Doctor Du, Book Two by M.S. Linsenmayer
- A Matter of Blood (The Unlikely Adventures of Mortensen & Spurlock Book 2) by Lucy True (aka Jea Hawkins)
- Girl, Serpent, Thorn by Melissa Bashardoust
- The Care and Feeding of Waspish Widows (Feminine Pursuits 2) by Olivia Waite
- The Pull of the Stars by Emma Donoghue
- 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)
Sunday Oct 18, 2020
Sunday Oct 18, 2020
Lesbian-Like History and Racial Othering
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 164 with Heather Rose Jones
An unblinking look at the historic intersection of women’s same-sex relations and racial othering
In this episode we talk about:
- Finding historic writing from within non-Western cultures
- Habib, Samar. 2009. Arabo-Islamic Texts on Female Homosexuality: 850-1780 A.D. Teneo Press, Youngstown. ISBN 978-1-934844-11-3
- Vanita, Ruth and Saleem Kidwai, eds. 2000. Same-Sex Love in India: Readings from Literature and History. St. Martin’s, New York. ISBN 0-312-22169-X
- Morgan, Ruth and Saskia Wierenga. 2005. Tommy Boys, Lesbian Men, and Ancestral Wives: Female Same-Sex Practices in Africa .Jacana Press, Johannesburg.
- ”They Do it Over There; Not Here”
- ”They Especially Do it in Turkey”
- Masculinizing Women of Color
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)
Sunday Oct 18, 2020
Sunday Oct 18, 2020
Book Appreciation: Black Authors/Black Characters
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 163 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 f/f historical fiction by Black authors featuring at least one Black protagonist.
- Resources for books by authors of color:
- Books mentioned
- The Salt Roads by Nalo Hopkinson
- The Caretaker’s Daughter by Gabrielle Goldsby
- “That Could Be Enough” by Alyssa Cole
- The Cherokee Rose: A Novel of Gardens and Ghosts by Tiya Miles
- The Gilda Stories by Jewelle Gomez
- Two Wings to Fly Away by Penny Mickelbury
- Dread Nation and Deathless Divide by Justina Ireland
- Everfair by Nisi Shawl
- Descendants of Hagar by Nik Nicholson
- Jam on the Vine by LaShonda Barnett
- The Color Purple by Alice Walker
- Under the Udala Trees by Chinelo Okparanta
- 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)
Sunday Oct 18, 2020
Sunday Oct 18, 2020
Interview with Amy Hoff
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 162 with Heather Rose Jones
A series of interviews with authors of historically-based fiction featuring queer women.
In this episode we talk about:
- Time machines and Scottish highland warriors
- Why a Scottish historian and folklorist created a trope-salad
- Digging into some of the less commonly used parts of Scottish history
- The othering of Scottish culture and how romantic myths erased their actual history
- How being a drifter on the American highway led to a love of road folklore which led to monsters
- How Brexit drove Amy to the Canary Islands by way of the Cannes Film Festival
- Tenerife: the sum of all the places Amy has loved
- Amy’s monster movies
- Why Amy used a cross-time frame in My Heart’s in the Highlands
- How looking at queer people in history can give hope for modern struggles
- Sources of Norse and Irish history that inspired Amy’s writing
- 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 Amy Hoff Online
- Tumblr: Angel on the Road
- Website: OfficialAmyHoff.com
- Twitter: @amylhoff
- Facebook: Official Amy Hoff
Sunday Oct 18, 2020
Sunday Oct 18, 2020
On the Shelf for June 2020
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 161 with Heather Rose Jones
Your monthly update on what the Lesbian Historic Motif Project has been doing.
In this episode we talk about:
- What does historical fiction have to do with racial justice?
- The 2020 Pride Storybundle
- Recent and upcoming publications covered on the blog
- Garber, Marjorie. 1992. Vested Interests: Cross-Dressing and Cultural Anxiety. Routledge, New York. ISBN 0-415-91951-7
- Halberstam, Judith (Jack). 1997. Female Masculinity. Duke University Press, Durham. ISBN 978-1-4780-0162-1
- Herrmann, Anne. 1992. "Imitations of Marriage: Crossdressed Couples in Contemporary Lesbian Fiction" in Feminist Studies vol. 18 no. 3 609-624.
- Hindmarch-Watson, Katie. 2008. "Lois Schwich, the Female Errand Boy: Narratives of Female Cross-Dressing in Late-Victorian London" in GLQ 14:1, 69-98.
- Boyd, David Lorenzo & Ruth Mazo Karras. 1995. "The Interrogation of a Male Transvestite Prostitute in Fourteenth-Century London" in GLQ vol. 1, 459-465.
- Roberts, Anna Klosowska. 2005. Queer Love in the Middle Ages. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
- Goldberg, Jonathan, ed. 1994. Queering the Renaissance. Duke University Press, Durham.
- Bray, Alan. 1995. Homosexuality in Renaissance England. Columbia University Press, New York.
- Announcing this month’s author guest, Amy Hoff
- New and forthcoming fiction
- The Empress of Salt and Fortune (The Singing Hills Cycle Book 1) by Nghi Vo
- Lovers & Dancers by Heather Ingman
- Heart of Gold (Heart Series Book 1) by Luci Dreamer
- Leather and Lace (Gold Sky Series Book 5) by Rebel Carter
- The Queen Takes All (Part 1, Book 1) by Clarissa Somers
- A Matter of Time (The Unlikely Adventures of Mortensen & Spurlock Book 1) by Lucy True (aka Jea Hawkins)
- Like a Tornado by Lauren Abosamra
- Belladonna: A Novel by Anbara Salam
- Her Lady's Honor by Renee Dahlia
- My Heart's in the Highlands by Amy Hoff
- The Voyages of Cinrak the Dapper by A.J. Fitzwater
- No Man's Land by A.J. Fitzwater
- Vera Kelly is Not a Mystery (A Vera Kelly Story) by Rosalie Knecht
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)
Saturday Oct 17, 2020
Saturday Oct 17, 2020
Cardinal’s Gambit by Catherine Lundoff
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 160 with Heather Rose Jones
The second story in our 2020 fiction series. Written by Catherine Lundoff, narrated by Cherae Clark.
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 Catherine Lundoff Online
- Website: Catherine Lundoff
- Website: Queen of Swords Press
Links to Cherae Clark Online
- Website: Clark Writes
- Twitter: @C_L_Clark
Saturday Oct 17, 2020
Saturday Oct 17, 2020
Aphra Behn (Reprise)
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 159 with Heather Rose Jones
This episode is about the 17th century novelist, playwright, and spy Aphra Behn.
In this episode we talk about:
- Behn’s careers in espionage and literature
- Her bisexuality and some of the complexities of how desire between women was portrayed in the 17th century
- Poem: VERSES design'd by Mrs. A. Behn, to be sent to a fair Lady, that desir'd she would absent her?self, to cure her Love. Left unfinish'd
- Poem: The Dream
- Poem: To the Fair Clarinda Who made love to me, Imagin'd more than woman
- Dedicatory text to Hortense Mancini, Duchesse Mazarine
Books mentioned:
- Todd, Janet. 1996. The Secret Life of Aphra Behn. Rutgers Univ Press, New Brunswick. ISBN 0-8135-2455-5
- If you’d like to read some historical fiction that includes an entirely imagined meeting between Aphra and Hortense Mancini: ”The Mazarinette and the Musketeer” by Heather Rose Jones
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)
Saturday Oct 17, 2020
Saturday Oct 17, 2020
History and Historic Fiction with Janet Todd
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 158 with Heather Rose Jones
A chat with historian and historical novelist Janet Todd.
In this episode we talk about:
- ”Masks” and performativity among 17th century writers
- Does the concept of “bisexuality” make sense in earlier centuries?
- How the ability to write about desire changed over the centuries
- Parallels between Aphra Behn and Mary Wollstonecraft
- Other authors of interest
- Passionate friends, romantic friends, intimate friends, and lovers: the long tradition of same-sex friendship
- Class and “lesbian celebritites” between the world wars
- Is it possible to write historic fiction that’s true to the setting and appealing to the modern reader?
- Fashions in historical fiction and historical movies
- Janet Todd’s advice to aspiring historical novelists
- Books mentioned
- Don’t You Know There’s a War On? by Janet Todd
- Aphra Behn: A Secret Life by Janet Todd
- Counterfeit Ladies: The Life and Death of Moll Cutpurse and the Case of Mary Carleton by Elizabeth Spearing and Janet Todd
- Mary: A Fiction by Mary Wollstonecraft
- Clarissa by Samuel Richardson
- Women’s Friendship in Literature by Janet Todd
- Lady Susan Plays the Game by Janet Todd (Jane Austen fan-fic)
- The Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys (Charlotte Brontë fan-fic)
- The Mirror and the Light (Wolf Hall #3) by Hilary Mantel
- This topic is discussed in one or more entries of the Lesbian Historic Motif Project here: Aphra Behn
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 Janet Todd Online
- Website: Janet Todd
- Books: Janet Todd’s Amazon page
- Twitter: @Jan_Todd
- Facebook: Janet Todd
Saturday Oct 17, 2020
Saturday Oct 17, 2020
Interview with Janet Todd
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 157 with Heather Rose Jones
A series of interviews with authors of historically-based fiction featuring queer women.
In this episode we talk about:
- Why I jumped at the chance to interview Janet Todd
- Dynamics of mothers and daughters in mid-20th century England
- Post-WWII social and political changes in England all the way up to Brexit
- Themes of ignorance, claustrophobia, and class aspirations
- The subtle underlayer of queer sexuality in the book
- Mid-century experiences of same-sex identification
- Joan’s narrative voice and the life experience it represents
- Writing an unlikeable character, not for sympathy, but for understanding
- The “social refusenik” and national character
- Why does a historian write a relatively modern novel?
- How Janet’s own post-war childhood informed the setting
- Changes in childrearing philosophy and how they shaped generations
- Books mentioned
- Don’t You Know There’s a War On? by Janet Todd
- Lady Susan Plays the Game by Janet Todd (an expansion of Jane Austen’s Lady Susan)
- A Man of Genius by Janet Todd (a Gothic novel set in 19th century Venice, no queer content)
- Radiation Diaries: Cancer, Memory and Fragments of a Life in Words by Janet Todd (memoir of her cancer treatment)
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 Janet Todd Online
- Website: Janet Todd
- Books: Janet Todd’s Amazon page
- Twitter: @Jan_Todd
- Facebook: Janet Todd
Saturday Oct 17, 2020
Saturday Oct 17, 2020
On the Shelf for May 2020
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 156 with Heather Rose Jones
Your monthly update on what the Lesbian Historic Motif Project has been doing.
In this episode we talk about:
- Book Events in the Time of Quarantine
- Recent and upcoming publications covered on the blog
- Smith-Rosenberg, Carroll. 1975. “The Female World of Love and Ritual: Relations between Women in Nineteenth-Century America” in Signs vol. 1, no. 1 1-29.
- Vicinus, Martha. 1984. "Distance and Desire: English Boarding-School Friendships" in Signs vol. 9, no. 4 600-622.
- Faderman, Lillian. 1999. "Surpassing the Love of Men Revisited" in The Harvard Gay & Lesbian Review 6.2 p.26.
- Bodek, Evely Gordon. 1976. "Salonières and Bluestockings: Educated Obsolescence and Germinating Feminism" in Feminist Studies vol 3 no. 3/4 185-199.
- Garber, Marjorie. 1992. Vested Interests: Cross-Dressing and Cultural Anxiety. Routledge, New York. ISBN 0-415-91951-7
- Halberstam, Judith (Jack). 1997. Female Masculinity. Duke University Press, Durham. ISBN 978-1-4780-0162-1
- Herrmann, Anne. 1992. "Imitations of Marriage: Crossdressed Couples in Contemporary Lesbian Fiction" in Feminist Studies vol. 18 no. 3 609-624.
- Hindmarch-Watson, Katie. 2008. "Lois Schwich, the Female Errand Boy: Narratives of Female Cross-Dressing in Late-Victorian London" in GLQ 14:1, 69-98.
- Book Shopping Titles
- European Sexualities, 1400-1800 by Katherine Crawford
- Never Married: Singlewomen in Early Modern England by Amy M. Froide
- Invisible Relations: Representations of Female Intimacy in the Age of Enlightenment by Elizabeth Susan Wahl
- Companions Without Vows: Relationships Among Eighteenth-Century British Women
- A Queer History of the United States by Michael Bronski
- Out of the Past: Gay and Lesbian History from 1869 to the Present by Neil Miller
- The Time Traveler’s Guide to Restoration Britain by Ian Mortimer
- Dress in the Age of Jane Austen: Regency Fashion by Hilary Davidson
- Women’s Friendship in Literature by Janet Todd
- Announcing this month’s author guest, Janet Todd
- This month’s essay: Aphra Behn (reprise)
- Fiction Series: “Cardinal’s Gambit” by Catherine Lundoff
- New and forthcoming fiction
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- The Storyteller by Jea Hawkins
- Mary, Everything (The Flapper Convenant #1) by Cassandra Yorke
- Pieces of You A Desdemona Valentina Mystery: * Femme Fatale * (Desdemona Valentina Mysteries #4) by S.L. Freake
- The Necklace and the Flame by Heather Donnelly
- Don't You Know There's a War On? by Janet Todd
- Out Now: Queer We Go Again! edited by Saundra Mitchell
- Scandalous Passions by Nicola Davidson
- The Tree and the Vine by Dola de Jong, trans. Kristen Gehrman
- While My Heart Beats by Erin McKenzie
- Insoumises by Kadyan
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)