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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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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
Sunday Oct 04, 2020
Sunday Oct 04, 2020
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
- Women in sexological literature ca. 1900
- More on Anne Lister
- Arabic sources for lesbian-like themes
- Transgender concepts in the middle ages
- This month’s author guest is Katharine Duckett
- This month’s essay will look at how people who don’t fit their culture’s gender/sexuality categories provide information about the categories
- New and forthcoming fiction
- How to Talk to Nice English Girls by Gretchen Evans (Carnation Books)
- As War Goes By by Aimée (Amazon digital)
- By Royal Lottery by M. Wyllie (Amazon digital)
- Sophistries of Summer Days by Jenny Lofters (Amazon digital)
- Memoirs of a Triangle by Christine Twigg (NineStar Press)
- The Highwayman by Eleanor Musgrave (Amazon digital)
- Miranda in Milan by Katharine Duckett (Tor.com)
- The Parting Glass by Gina Marie Guadagnino (Touchstone)
- Alice Payne Rides (Alice Payne #2) by Kate Heartfield (Tor.com)
- The True Queen by Zen Cho (Ace)
- Levitate: A Spy Novel by Geonn Cannon (Supposed Crimes)
- Ask Sappho: Eh Stevens asks “What’s your take on Eleanor Roosevelt and Lorena Hickok?”
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 03, 2020
Saturday Oct 03, 2020
Prepositions, Sexuality, and Gender: Unpacking Our Bundles
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 94 with Heather Rose Jones
A really geeky philosophical discussion about the semantics of prepositions across different languages, and how we can use that as a gateway to thinking about different cultural models of sexuality and gender. This is the first part of a two-part series that looks at the complex differences in how gender and sexuality has been understood in different times and places, and what that means for the search for identification and connection with historic figures.
In this episode we talk about
- Thinking of prepositions (and gender/sexuality categories) as bundles of distinct meaning-features that can be combined in different ways in different languages/cultures
- Picking apart some of the types of meaning-features that are used to build gender and sexuality categories.
- An example of different ways in which the same bundle of gender/sexuality features might be interpreted based on cultural models and assumptions
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 03, 2020
Saturday Oct 03, 2020
Ordinary Women (Reprise)
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 93 with Heather Rose Jones
A reprise of the debut episode of a podcast about women loving women in history and literature and the fiction we write about them.
In this episode we talk about:
- Greta von Mösskirch who loved girls in 16th century German
- Two 15th century French peasant women, Jehanne and Laurence, whose love affair ended in violence and a lawsuit.
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 03, 2020
Saturday Oct 03, 2020
10 Lesbian Historical Books and Movies I Loved in 2018
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 92 with Heather Rose Jones
A brief tour through some of my favorite media consumed in 2018.
In this episode we talk about:
- Roman Homosexuality by Craig A. Williams
- The Lesbian Premodern ed. by Noreen Giffney, Michelle M. Sauer, and Diane Watt
- The Favourite (movie)
- “That Could Be Enough” by Alyssa Cole
- Life Mask by Emma Donoghue
- The Covert Captain by Jeannelle M. Ferreira
- Mary Diana Dods: A Gentleman and a Scholar by Betty T. Bennett
- When Romeo was a Woman: Charlotte Cushman and her Circle of Female Spectators by Lisa Merrill
- Creatures of Will and Temper by Molly Tanzer
- Battle of the Sexes (movie)
- A Study in Honor by Claire O’Dell
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 03, 2020
Saturday Oct 03, 2020
On the Shelf for February 2019
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 91 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 16-17th century topics, including gender presentation
- Articles on late 19th century sexologists
- Book Shopping for the blog
- Delarivier Manley’s The New Atalantis
- This month’s essay topic is: an exploration of the category structure of gender and sexuality (to be continued)
- New and forthcoming fiction
- Running Wild: A Steamy Lesbian Romance in Ancient Greece by Laurel Clarke (Amazon Digital)
- Breaking Mae's Curse by Amy DeMeritt (self-published)
- Souls of Viridian by Ayin Weaver (NovelWeaver Press)
- A Harvest of Sisters by Emma Bawden (self-published)
- The Arrival of Lady Suthmeer by Connie Valientis (self-published)
- The Plan by Kim Pritekel (Sapphire Books)
- Acts of Contrition (Passing Rites 4) by Elena Graf (Purple Hand Press)
- Rainbow Bouquet by various authors (Manifold Press)
- Figuring by Maria Popova (Pantheon)
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 02, 2020
Friday Oct 02, 2020
The New Atalantis - Secret Lesbian Clubs in 17th c Literature
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 90 with Heather Rose Jones
Readings from an early 18th century satirical roman à clef that depicts a secret society of sapphist at the court of Queen Anne of England.
In this episode we talk about:
- The context and purpose of Delarivier Manley’s work
- An annotated reading of selections discussing f/f relationships
- The full text of The New Atalantis can be found at Google Books
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)