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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 05, 2020
Monday Oct 05, 2020
Interview with Molly Tanzer
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 105 with Heather Rose Jones
In this episode we talk about:
- Finding inspiration in 18-19th century literature
- Queer themes in historic literature and how they are erased
- Exploring the decadent movement and gender-flipping The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
- The complexities of signaling queer content in mainstream books--are queer relationships spoilers?
- Cultural intersections in Vermillion and why there aren’t any sequels at this point
- Shifts in the social landscape in how authors approach gender, sexuality, and cultural background
- Molly’s attraction to 18th century settings, being inspired by historic aesthetics and artistic movements
- Conversations that manifest in artistic output
- The roots of the modern novel in women’s literature of the 18th century
- Trying to write in the current political climate
Molly’s Books
- Creatures of Will and Temper
- Creatures of Want and Ruin
- Creatures of Charm and Hunger (forthcoming in Spring 2020)
- Vermillion
- Rumbullion (novella) - 18th c “Rashomon with fops” (male protagonist)
- The Pleasure Merchant - 18th c (male protagonist)
Other books mentioned
- The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
- A Shadow Over Innsmouth by H.P. Lovecraft
- Pamela: or Virtue Rewarded by Samuel Richardson
- Clarissa: or the History of a Young Lady by Samuel Richardson
- Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
- Don Quixote by Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra
- The Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu
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 Molly Tanzer Online
- twitter: https://twitter.com/molly_the_tanz
- fb: https://www.facebook.com/mollytanzer
- instagram: https://www.instagram.com/molly_tanzer/
- website: http://mollytanzer.com
Monday Oct 05, 2020
Monday Oct 05, 2020
On the Shelf for May 2019
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 104 with Heather Rose Jones
Your monthly update on what the Lesbian Historic Motif Project has been doing.
In this episode we talk about:
- Presenting research from the LHMP at the Kalamazoo Medieval Congress
- The LHMP has a Patreon!
- Get ready to think about the 2020 fiction series
- Recent and upcoming publications covered on the blog
- Commentary of Dinshaw’s Getting Medieval
- Accusations of male and female sodomy in the church
- Love magic in early Egypt
- Formal cross-gender roles in the Balkans
- Book Shopping for the blog
- Early 20th century love letters
- Abbouci, Mounawar ed. and trans. 2018. Yde and Olive. In Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality, Subsidia series vol 8. Medieval Texts in Translation 5.
- Memoire pour Anne Grandjean, connu sous le nom de Jean-Baptiste Grandjean, Accusé & Appellant. Contre M. le Procureur Génêral. Accusateur & Intimé. 1765. Louis Cellot, Paris.
- This month’s author guest is Molly Tanzer (for real this time)
- This month’s essay topic is: TBD
- New and forthcoming fiction
- Two Wings to Fly Away by Penny Mickelbury (Bywater Books)
- The Confessions of Frannie Langton by Sara Collins (Harper Collins)
- Proper English by K.J. Charles (self-published)
- The Railroad of Threads Riva Zmajoki (self-published)
- The Lady and Her Secret Lover: a Lords of Time story by Jenn LeBlanc (Illustrated Romance)
- Precious and Adored: The Love Letters of Rose Cleveland and Evangeline Simpson Whipple, 1890–1918 edited by Lizzie Ehrenhalt & Tilly Laskey (Minnesota Historical Society Press)
- Ask Sappho: Anonymous asks “Why doesn’t the LHMP ever talk about trans lesbians in history?”
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 04, 2020
Sunday Oct 04, 2020
Policing Sexuality and Gender in Early Modern Europe
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 103 with Heather Rose Jones
A continuing look at the structure of categories for gender and sexuality in history, focusing on how specific individuals challenged category definitions.
Previous podcast in this series: Unpacking Gender and Sexuality Categories.
In this episode we talk about:
Anne Grandjean
- Primary Souce: Memoire pour Anne Grandjean, Connu sous le Nom de Jean-Baptiste Granjean, Accusé & Appellant. 1765. Imprimerie de Louis Cellot, Paris. Available for free download from Google Books.
- LHMP Links: Anne Grandjean
Jehanne and Laurence
- Podcast
- Primary Article: Benkov 2001
- LHMP Links: Jehanne & Laurence
Elen@ de Céspedes
- Primary Article: Burshatin 1996
- LHMP Links: Elena/Eleno de Céspedes
Catalina de Erauso
- Podcast
- Primary Article: Velasco 2000
- LHMP Links: Catalina de Erauso
Amy Poulter and Arabella Hunt
- Podcast
- Primary Article: Crawford & Mendelson 1995
- LHMP Links: Amy Poulter & Arabella Hunt
Greta von Mösskirch
- Podcast
- Primary Source: Chronicle of the Counts of Zimmern
- LHMP Links: Greta von Mösskirch
Thomas(ine) Hall
- Primary Article: Brown 1995
- LHMP Links: Thomas(ine) Hall
Catharine Vizzani
- Podcast
- Primary Source: The True History and Adventures of Catharine Vizzani
- LHMP Links: Catharine Vizzani
Other References
- Authorized gender-crossing in the Balkans - Horváth 2011 (will be posted 2019/05/13)
- Nederman & True 1996 - 12th century opinions on a “third sex”
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 04, 2020
Sunday Oct 04, 2020
Interview with Zen Cho
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 102 with Heather Rose Jones
An interview with fantasy author Zen Cho.
NOTE: This month’s On the Shelf incorrectly announced this month’s guest as Molly Tanzer. The Molly Tanzer interview will appear at a future date.
In this episode we talk about:
- The Malaysian influences in Zen’s fiction
- 19th century English literature and engaging with colonial legacies through fiction
- Her favorite historic eras that may see stories in the future
- The challenges of researching less-represented historic eras and regions
- Being inspired by the gaps and omissions in mainstream history
- The similar challenges of writing queer characters and writing non-Western characters
- 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 Zen Cho Online
- Website: zencho.org
- Mailing Lists: Subscribe
- Twitter: @zenaldehyde
- Facebook: Zen Cho
- Instagram: Zen Cho
Sunday Oct 04, 2020
Sunday Oct 04, 2020
On the Shelf for April 2019
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 101 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
- Articles on 19th c women
- Lesbian-like categories in Arabic literature
- 12th c European gender categories
- Commentaries on Dinshaw’s Getting Medieval
- Accusations of sodomy within the church
- Gender-crossing in medieval French romances
- Book Shopping for the blog
- A Rainbow Thread: An Anthology of Queer Jewish Texts from the First Century to 1969, edited by Noam Sienna
- Precious and Adored: The Love Letters of Rose Cleveland and Evangeline Simpson Whipple, 1890–1918
- This month’s author guest is Zen Cho (originally announced as Molly Tanzer who will appear next month)
- This month’s essay topic is: Policing Gender and Sexuality
- New and forthcoming fiction
- The Huntress by Kate Quinn (William Morrow Paperbacks)
- Sleight of Hand by Ilse V Rensburg aka Jason Hes (Sera Blue)
- Robber Girl by S. T. Gibson (self-published)
- A Vengeance of Spies: A WW2 Novella by Manda Scott (self-published)
- Mrs. Martin’s Incomparable Adventure by Courtney Milan (self-published)
- Liliana by Diana Robbins (self-published)
- Die Frau des Zuckerhändlers by Nathalie C. Kutscher (Telegonos-Publishing)
- No Man's Chattel by Lee Swanson (self-published)
- *S h e r l o c k i a n* Desdemona Valentina - A Femme Fatale Mystery - 1 (Desdemona Valentina Mysteries) by S.L. Freake (self-published)
- Today Dauphine Tomorrow Nothing by Saga Hillborn (self-published)
- Love’s Portrait by Anna Larner (Bold Strokes Books)
- The Cursed Heart by Bonnie Wormsley (Regal Crest Enterprises)
- Gentleman Jack (Movie Tie-In): The Real Anne Lister by Anne Choma (Penguin Books)
- God's Children by Mabli Roberts (Honno Press)
- Ask Sappho: What’s the history of the slang term ‘tommy’ for a lesbian?
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 04, 2020
Sunday Oct 04, 2020
The 100th Episode - Where My Heart Goes
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 100 with Heather Rose Jones
To celebrate the podcast’s 100th episode, I offer you a bonus story.
In this episode we talk about:
- “Where My Heart Goes” by Heather Rose Jones, originally published in Through the Hourglass edited by Sacchi Green and Patty G. Henderson.
- The real historical figures who inspired this story were discussed in episode #5 Laudomia Loves Margaret
A transcript of this podcast may be 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 04, 2020
Sunday Oct 04, 2020
Alphabet of Signs and Jade Generals by Ursula Whitcher
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 99 with Heather Rose Jones
The first stories in our 2019 fiction series. Written by Ursula Whitcher and narrated by Jasmine Arch.
- “Alphabet of Signs”
- “Jade Genderals”
A transcript of this podcast may be 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 Ursula Whitcher Online
- Website: http://yarntheory.net
- Twitter: @superyarn
Links to Jasmine Arch Online
- Website: http://www.jasminearch.com
- Twitter: @Jaye_Arch
Sunday Oct 04, 2020
Sunday Oct 04, 2020
Laudomia Loves Margaret (Reprise)
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 98 with Heather Rose Jones
The 16th century romance between Sienese poet and intellectual Laudomia Forteguerri and Duchess Margaret of Austria.
In this episode we talk about:
- Translations and the context of the poetry Laudomia wrote for Margaret can be found in:
- Eisenbichler, Konrad. “Laudomia Forteguerri Loves Margaret of Austria” in Same Sex Love and Desire Among Women in the Middle Ages (ed. By Francesca Canadé Sautman & Pamela Sheingorn), Palgrave, New York, 2001.
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)
Sunday Oct 04, 2020
Sunday Oct 04, 2020
Book Appreciation with Katharine Duckett
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 97 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 Katharine Duckett recommends some favorite queer historical novels:
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 Katharine Duckett Online
- Website: https://www.katharineduckett.com
- Twitter: @kekduckett
Sunday Oct 04, 2020
Sunday Oct 04, 2020
Interview with Katharine Duckett
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 96 with Heather Rose Jones
A series of interviews with authors of historically-based fiction featuring queer women.
In this episode we talk about:
- Katharine’s debut novella from Tor.com: Miranda in Milan
- The jumping off point of the story from Shakespeare’s The Tempest
- Historic Milan and the Sforzas
- 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 Katharine Duckett Online
- Website: https://www.katharineduckett.com
- Twitter: @kekduckett