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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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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
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