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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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Saturday Oct 10, 2020
Saturday Oct 10, 2020
The Goblin Market (Reprise)
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 129 with Heather Rose Jones
This is an analysis and recitation of the poem “The Goblin Market” by Christina Rossetti, with special attention to its homoerotic themes.
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 10, 2020
Saturday Oct 10, 2020
Poetry about Love Between Women from the 16th and 17th Centuries (Reprise)
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 128
This episode takes a poetic tour through expressions of, and reactions to, love between women in 16th and 17th century Europe.
In this episode we talk about:
- Poems about the pangs of love
- Men jealous of women’s love for each other
- Men appropriating lesbian imagery
- Poems of satire and vituperation
- The triumph of love
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 10, 2020
Saturday Oct 10, 2020
Medieval Love Poetry (Reprise)
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 127 with Heather Rose Jones
This episode looks at examples of courtly love--both in poetry and in prose--expressed between two women, or by two female characters.
In this episode we talk about:
- The context and conventions of the “courtly love” genre
- The problems of relating the sentiments expressed in courtly love literature to everyday lives and experiences
- Scholarly blind spots when interpreting same-sex expressions of courtly love
- Love, desire, and friendship between women in the 13th century French story L’Escoufle
- The 13th century troubariz (female troubador) Bieiris de Romans and the love poem she wrote to a woman named Maria
- A passionate poem of love and longing written by one anonymous 12th century German woman to another
Books mentioned
- The full text of Na Maria by Bieris de Romans can be found in: Bogin, Meg. 1976. The Women Troubadours. Paddington Press, Ltd., New York. ISBN 0-8467-0113-8
- The full text of the Tegernsee MS poem can be found in: Matter, E. Ann. 1989. “My Sister, My Spouse: Woman-Identified Women in Medieval Christianity” in Weaving the Visions: New Patterns in Feminist Spirituality, eds. Judith Plaskow & Carol P. Christ. Harper & Row, San Francisco.
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 10, 2020
Saturday Oct 10, 2020
On the Shelf for October 2019
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 126 with Heather Rose Jones
Your monthly update on what the Lesbian Historic Motif Project has been doing.
In this episode we talk about:
- My recording vacation this month and why you’re getting three reprises of poetry shows
- Recent and upcoming publications covered on the blog
- Amtower, Laurel and Dorothea Kehler, eds. 2003. The Single Woman in Medieval and Early Modern England: Her Life and Representation. Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Tempe. ISBN 0-06698-306-6
- Laqueur, Thomas. 1990. Making Sex: Body and Gender from the Greeks to Freud. Harvard University Press, Cambridge. ISBN 0-674-54349-1
- Rich, Adrienne. 1980. “Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence,” Signs vol 5, no. 4, pp. 631-60 at 650.
- New and forthcoming fiction
- Call for submissions for the 2020 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)
Friday Oct 09, 2020
Friday Oct 09, 2020
How to Be a Feminist in History
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 125 with Heather Rose Jones
So you want your historic character to be a feminist. What does that mean? How early can we find women expressing opinions about gender equality and what did they think it looked like? What would your historic feminist’s blind spots be? What arguments and evidence would she bring to the table?
In this episode we talk about:
- Christine de Pisan
- Excerpts from: Christine de Pizan (trans by Earl Jeffrey Richards). 1982. The Book of the City of Ladies. Persea Books, New York.
- Moderata Fonte (Modesta di Pozzo)
- Excerpts from: Fonte, Moderata (trans by Virginia Cox). 2018. The Merits of Women (Wherein is Revealed Their Nobility and Their Superiority to Men). The University of Chicago Press, Chicago.
- Marie de Gournay
- Excerpt from: Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy
- Olympe de Gouges
- Mary Wollstonecraft
- Excerpts from: A Vindication of the Rights of Women (Project Gutenberg)
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)
Friday Oct 09, 2020
Friday Oct 09, 2020
Book Appreciation with Olivia Waite
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 124 with Heather Rose Jones
In the Book Appreciation segments, our featured author will talk about one or more favorite books with queer female characters in a historic setting.
In this episode we talk about:
- 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 Olivia Waite Online
- Website: oliviawaite.com
- Twitter: @O_Waite
- Instagram: o_wow_waite
Friday Oct 09, 2020
Friday Oct 09, 2020
Interview with Olivia Waite
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 123 with Heather Rose Jones
A series of interviews with authors of historically-based fiction featuring queer women.
In this episode we talk about:
- What attracted her to writing historical stories
- How the Ladies’ Guide started as a straight romance and the contrast in social dynamics
- Exerience versus imagination in writing romance
- Bi representation in romance
- Figuring out how your characters understand their sexuality
- What it’s like to publish f/f romance with a mainstream publisher
- The experience of being a bisexual woman reading lesfic
- Classical erotic literature and the range of sexual experiences
- Trying to get into the heads (or other organs) of people in history
- The next two books in the “Feminine Pursuits” series
- 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 Olivia Waite Online
- Website: oliviawaite.com
- Twitter: @O_Waite
- Instagram: o_wow_waite
Friday Oct 09, 2020
Friday Oct 09, 2020
On the Shelf for September 2019
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 122 with Heather Rose Jones
Your monthly update on what the Lesbian Historic Motif Project has been doing.
In this episode we talk about:
- My trip to Ireland and Worldcon
- Recent and upcoming publications covered on the blog
- Articles from The Single Woman in Medieval and Early Modern England: Her Life and Representation
- Classics in the field of the history of gender and sexuality (specific titles TBD)
- Announcing this month’s author guest, Olivia Waite
- New and forthcoming fiction
- Under the Microscope by Kim Finney (Cygneture Books)
- Worlds Apart by Stein Willard
- Beggar’s Flip by Benny Lawrence (Bedazzled Ink)
- Les révolutions d'Olympe by Le Jardin de Sappho
- Outlaw: A Lesbian Retelling of Robyn Hood by Niamh Murphy
- Prairie Hearts by JB Marsden (Sapphire Books)
- Bloomsbury’s Late Rose: A Novel by Pen Pearson (Chickadee Prince Books)
- Stage Dreams by Melanie Gilman (Graphic Universe)
- Somewhere Along the Way by Kathleen Knowles (Bold Strokes Books)
- Cantoras by Carolina de Robertis (Knopf)
- Sappho’s Soapbox: Mainstream historic fantasy featuring queer women
- Call for submissions for the 2020 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)
Thursday Oct 08, 2020
Thursday Oct 08, 2020
The Black Handkerchief by Gwen C. Katz
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 121 with Heather Rose Jones
The third story in our 2019 fiction series.
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 Gwen C. Katz Online
- Website: gwenckatz.com
- Twitter: @gwenckatz
Links to Lara Zielinsky Online
- Twitter: @lczielinsky
- Facebook: AuthorLaraZielinsky
Thursday Oct 08, 2020
Thursday Oct 08, 2020
Postcards from Worldcon
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 120 with Heather Rose Jones
A collection of micro-interviews recorded live at Worldcon in Dublin, Ireland.
Recommendations and shout-outs from:
- Adri Joy
- Freya Marske
- Everina Maxwell
- Liz Bourke
- Jennifer Mace
- Sara Uckelman
- Katri
- @fromankyra
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)