Episodes
Saturday Aug 06, 2022
On the Shelf for August 2022 - The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Episode 236
Saturday Aug 06, 2022
Saturday Aug 06, 2022
On the Shelf for August 2022
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 236 with Heather Rose Jones
Your monthly roundup of history, news, and the field of sapphic historical fiction.
In this episode we talk about:
- Call for submissions for the 2023 LHMP audio short story series. See here for details.
- Daughter of Mystery is out in audiobook
- QueerPodcasts.net
- Vintage Lesbians (podcast)
- Recent and upcoming publications covered on the blog
- Castle, Terry. 1993. The Apparitional Lesbian. Columbia University Press, New York. iSBN 0-231-07653-3
- Huebner, Sabine R. & Christian Laes (eds). 2019. The Single Life in the Roman and Later Roman World. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. ISBN 978-1-108-47017-9
- New and forthcoming fiction
- The Valkyrie's Daughter by Tiana Warner
- Infamous by Lex Croucher
- My Lady's Shadow: Power and intrigue in Medieval France by Coirle Mooney
- The Lady's Keeper by Coirle Mooney
- The Cloistered Lady by Coirle Mooney
- Set in Stone by Stela Brinzeanu
- Mademoiselle Revolution by Zoe Sivak
- The Inconvenient Heiress (The Spinsters of Inverley #1) by Jane Walsh
- Ashthorne by April Yates
- The Lady Adventurers Club by Karen Frost
- The Drowned Woods by Emily Lloyd-Jones
- The Oleander Sword (Burning Kingdoms 2) by Tasha Suri
- What I’ve Consumed
- The Grief of Stones by Katherine Addison
- An Extraordinary Union by Alyssa Cole
- This month we interview Rebecca Fraimow and talk about:
- The Yiddish theatre in late 19th c Russia and after
- Rebecca’s series of queer Jewish historic fantasy stories
- Sienna, Noam (ed). 2019. A Rainbow Thread: An Anthology of Queer Jewish Texts from the First Century to 1969. Print-O-Craft, Philadelphia. ISBN 978-0-9905155-6-2 (link is to LHMP blog entry)
- “Further Arguments In Support of Yudah Cohen’s Proposal to Bluma Zilberman” by Rebecca Fraimow (Podcastle)
- “Shaina Rubin Keeps Her Head Under Circumstances Nobody Could Have Expected” by Rebecca Fraimow (Podcastle)
- “Gitl Schneiderman Learns to Live With Her In-Laws” by Rebecca Fraimow (Podcastle)
- “God of Vengeance” by Sholem Asch (Wikipedia link for Sholem Asch)
- Indecent xx (link to IMDb.com)
- ”Fearfully and Wonderfully Made” by Rebecca Fraimow (in Kaleidotrope)
A transcript of this podcast is available here. (Interview 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 Rebecca Fraimow Online
- Website: https://rebeccafraimow.com/
- Twitter: @ryfkah
Saturday Jul 30, 2022
Saturday Jul 30, 2022
A Farce to Suit the New Girl by Rebecca Fraimow
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 235 with Heather Rose Jones
This quarter’s fiction episode presents “A Farce to Suit the New Girl” by Rebecca Fraimow, narrated by Violet Dixon.
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 Rebecca Framow Online
- Website: rebeccafraimow.com
- Twitter: @ryfkah
Saturday Jul 16, 2022
Saturday Jul 16, 2022
Our F/Favorite Tropes Part 1: Only One Bed
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 234 with Heather Rose Jones
In this episode we talk about:
- Introducing the trope series
- What is a trope?
- The logical structure of the Only One Bed trope
- The history of attitudes toward female bed-sharing
- Bed-sharing and sex between women
- Remaking the trope for f/f romances
- This topic is discussed in one or more entries of the Lesbian Historic Motif Project here: bed-sharing
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 Jul 02, 2022
On the Shelf for July 2022 - The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Episode 233
Saturday Jul 02, 2022
Saturday Jul 02, 2022
On the Shelf for July 2022
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 233 with Heather Rose Jones
Your monthly roundup of history, news, and the field of sapphic historical fiction.
In this episode we talk about:
- Podcast of interest: Swords & Sapphics
- Recent and upcoming publications covered on the blog
- Garber, Linda. 2022. Novel Approaches to Lesbian History. Palgrave, Cham. ISBN 978-3-030-85416-4
- Medd, Jodie (ed). 2015. The Cambridge Companion to Lesbian Literature. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. ISBN 978-1-107-66343-5
- Castle, Terry. 1993. The Apparitional Lesbian: Female Homosexuality and Modern Culture. Columbia University Press, New York. ISBN 0-231-07653-3
- New and forthcoming fiction
- What I’ve been consuming
- Across the Green Grass Fields by Seanan McGuire
- The Galaxy and the Ground Within by Becky Chambers
- Witness for the Dead by Katherine Addison
- First Kill Netflix tv 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)
Saturday Jun 18, 2022
Saturday Jun 18, 2022
Yuri Manga and Anime: Interview with Erica Friedman
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 232 with Heather Rose Jones
In this episode we talk about:
- What is Yuri?
- Roots in Japanese girls’ culture of the 1920s
- Common tropes
- How is Yuri related to overtly queer culture?
- Different “flavors” of Yuri for different readerships
- Isekai “light novels”
- Differences and similarities between Yuri and Yaoi or “BL” (boys’ love) media
- How US attitudes towards sexual content have affected the reception of romantic/erotic themes in manga/anime
- The “girl prince” trope in The Rose of Versailles (see Erica’s YouTube discussion)
- How Erica approaches Japanese media as a non-Japanese consumer
- What By Your Side covers
- Publications Mentioned – Note: Links may be to the yuricon.com online store which is Erica Friedman’s website and benefits her financially.
- By Your Side :The First 100 Years of Yuri Anime and Manga by Erica Friedman
- Hana Monogatari (Flower Stories) by Yoshiya Nobuko “Two Maidens in the Attic”
- Revolutionary Girl Utena by Chiho Saito
- Boyish 2 (Butch x Butch Yuri Anthology)
- If We Leave on the Dot by Ayu Inui
- Sailor Moon (Hulu, Netflix) – especially season 3
- The Rose of Versailles by Riyoko Ikeda (5 vol. of manga, 2 seasons of anime)
- “Yellow Rose” by Yoshiya Nobuko from Hana Monogatari, translated by Dr. Sara Frederick
- Dear Brother by Riyoko Ikeda
- Maria Watches Over Us by Konno Oyuki
- I’m in Love With the Villainess by inori - Isekai “light novel” and manga
- Sexiled: My Sexist Party Leader Kicked Me Out, So I Teamed Up With a Mythical Sorceress! by Ameco Kaeruda - Isekai “light novel”
- JK Haru is a Sex Worker in Another World by K? Hiratori? - Isekai “light novel”
- RESISTANCE: The LGBT Fight Against Fascism in WWII by Avery Cassell (Author), Diane Kanzler (Editor), Diego Gomez (Illustrator)
- No Straight Lines: Four Decades of Queer Comics Justin Hall (Editor)
A transcript of this podcast will be available here at a later date.
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 Erica Friedman Online
- Website: http://yuricon.com
- Blog: http://okazu.yuricon.com
- Twitter: @OkazuYuri
- Discord: https://discord.gg/4NPHGH7Vc4
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/YuriconALC
- YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/yuristudio
- Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/Okazu
Sunday Jun 05, 2022
On the Shelf for June 2022 - The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Episode 231
Sunday Jun 05, 2022
Sunday Jun 05, 2022
On the Shelf for June 2022
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 231 with Heather Rose Jones
Your monthly roundup of history, news, and the field of sapphic historical fiction.
In this episode we talk about:
- How I put together a podcast episode
- SFF Pride Storybundle
- Recent and upcoming publications covered on the blog
- Frye, Susan & Karen Robertson (eds). Maids and Mistresses, Cousins and Queens: Women’s Alliances in Early Modern England. Oxford University Press, New York. ISBN 0-19-511735-2
- Garber, Linda. 2022. Novel Approaches to Lesbian History. Palgrave, Cham. ISBN 978-3-030-85416-4
- Medd, Jodie (ed). 2015. The Cambridge Companion to Lesbian Literature. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. ISBN 978-1-107-66343-5
- Book Shopping
- Tinsley, Omise'eke Natasha. 2010. Thiefing Sugar: Eroticism between Women in Caribbean Literature. Duke University Press, Durham. ISBN 978-0-8223-4777-4
- Donato, Clorinda. 2020. The Life and Legend of Catterina Vizzani: Sexual identity, science and sensationalism in eighteenth-century Italy and England. Voltaire Foundation, Oxford. ISBN 978-1-78962-221-8
- By Your Side: The First 100 Years of Yuri Manga & Anime by Erica Friedman
- New and forthcoming fiction
- Emma: Restraint and Presumption by Garnet Marriott & Jane Austen
- On Stolen Land by Stephanie Rabig
- Something Happened in River Falls by Karyn Walters
- Valiant Ladies by Melissa Grey
- Glorious Poison by Kat Dunn
- The Bluestocking Beds Her Bride: An Age Gap Regency Romance (Must Love Scandal) by Fenna Edgewood
- title by author
- Briefly, A Delicious Life by Nell Stevens
- Perilous Passages (The Wellington Mysteries #2) by Edale Lane
- Beautiful Little Fool by Sarah Zane
- LOTE by Shola von Reinhold
- Last Call at the Nightingale by Katharine Schellman
- Harlem Sunset (A Harlem Renaissance Mystery Book 2) by Nekesa Afia
- In the Shadow of Love (Shadow Series #2) by J.E. Leak
- Dead Letters from Paradise by Ann McMan
- Vera Kelly: Lost and Found (Vera Kelly #3) by Rosalie Knecht
- Jobs for Girls with Artistic Flair by June Gervais
- What I’ve been reading:
- Light from Uncommon Stars by Ryka Aoki
- Blood Moon by Catherine Lundoff
- Toad Words by T. Kingfisher
- A Master of Djinn by P. Djèlí Clark
- Black Water Sister by Zen Cho
- Spear by Nicola Griffith
A transcript of this podcast is available here. (Interview 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)
Saturday May 21, 2022
Saturday May 21, 2022
The Long History of the Lavender Menace
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 230 with Heather Rose Jones
In this episode we talk about:
- The changing focus of feminist activism across the centuries
- Different ways in which feminism was attacked
- The rationale behind accusing feminists of lesbianism
- Cycles of activism and backlash
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 May 07, 2022
On the Shelf for May 2022 - The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Episode 229
Saturday May 07, 2022
Saturday May 07, 2022
On the Shelf for May 2022
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 229 with Heather Rose Jones
Your monthly roundup of history, news, and the field of sapphic historical fiction.
In this episode we talk about:
- The merry month of May
- Book shopping!
- The Cambridge Companion to Lesbian Literature edited by Jodie Medd
- Ingenious Trade: Women and Work in Seventeenth-Century London by Laura Gowing
- New and forthcoming fiction
- What I’ve been reading:
- The Company Daughters by Samantha Rajaram
- Passing as Elias by Kate Bloomfield
- Swordheart by T. Kingfisher
- Murder on Cold Street by Sherry Thomas
- Miss Moriarty, I Presume? by Sherry Thomas
- The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid
- Stormsong (Kingston Cycle #2) by C.L. Polk
- Unconquerable Sun by Kate Elliott
- This month we interview Ursula Whitcher about her story in the previous episode.
- The inspirations for the story
- Writing disability in a historic context
- Braiding different interests into a single story
- Ursula’s previous fiction appearances on the LHMPodcast
- Huebner, Sabine R. & Christian Laes (eds). 2019. The Single Life in the Roman and Later Roman World. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. ISBN 978-1-108-47017-9
- ”The Last Tutor” by Ursula Whitcher in Asimov’s Science Fiction May/June 2022
A transcript of this podcast is available here. (Interview 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 Ursula Whitcher Online
- Website: yarntheory.net
- Twitter: @superyarn
Saturday Apr 30, 2022
Saturday Apr 30, 2022
”The Spirits of Cabassus” by Ursula Whitcher
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 228 with Heather Rose Jones
This quarter’s fiction episode presents “The Spirits of Cabassus” by Ursula Whitcher, narrated by Heather Rose Jones.
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 Ursula Whitcher Online
- Website: yarntheory.net
- Twitter: @superyarn
Saturday Apr 16, 2022
Charlotte Charke - The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Episode 227
Saturday Apr 16, 2022
Saturday Apr 16, 2022
Charlotte Charke
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 227 with Heather Rose Jones
In this episode we talk about:
- The decidedly queer life of 18th c English actor Charlotte Charke
- The full text of A Narrative of the Life of Mrs. Charlotte Charke…Written by herself can be found through Google Books
- This topic is discussed in one or more entries of the Lesbian Historic Motif Project here: Charlotte Charke
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)