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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 Nov 19, 2022
Saturday Nov 19, 2022
Our F/Favorite Tropes: Kissing Lessons
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 244 with Heather Rose Jones
In this episode we talk about:
- The “kissing lessons” trope in historic romance
- The culture of kissing and how it interacts with gender
- Scenarios for using kissing lessons between women to drive a romance plot
- Sources mentioned
- This topic is discussed in one or more entries of the Lesbian Historic Motif Project here: Kissing
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 Nov 05, 2022
Saturday Nov 05, 2022
On the Shelf for November 2022
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 243 with Heather Rose Jones
Your monthly roundup of history, news, and the field of sapphic historical fiction.
In this episode we talk about:
- Conferences, both virtual and not
- Recent and upcoming publications covered on the blog
- Vermeil. 1765. Mémoire pour Anne Grandjean. Louis Cellot, Paris.
- New and forthcoming fiction
- Death on the Rocks (Veronica Nash #8) by A.J. Matthews
- Her Vixen Actress (Ladylike Inclinations #2) by Violet Cowper
- Lady Liesl's Seaside Surprise (Teacup Magic #4) by Tansy Rayner Roberts
- That Dickinson Girl: A Novel of the Civil War (Forgotten Women #1) by Joan Koster
- The Secret of Matterdale Hall by Marianne Ratcliffe
- A Restless Truth (The Last Binding #2) by Freya Marske
- Hot Keys by R.E. Ward
- Enigma by Suzie Clarke
- Even Though I Knew the End by C.L. Polk
- What I’ve been consuming
- The Haunting of Tram Car 015 by P. Djèlí Clark
- A Dead Djinn in Cairo by P. Djèlí Clark
- The Tale of Princess Fatima, Warrior Woman: The Arabic Epic of Dhat Al-Himma translated by Melanie Magidow
- A Thief in the Night by K.J. Charles
- Mrs. Wickham by Sarah Page
- This month we interview Miyuki Jane Pinckard and talk about:
- Looking outside the “medieval Europe” default for fantasy
- The Story Kitchen Studio
- ”The Wolf that Sings on the Mountain” by Miyuki Jane Pinckard
- ”A House Full of Voices is Never Empty” (Uncanny Magazine) by Miyuki Jane Pinckard
- ”Radcliffe Hall” (Uncanny Magazine) by Miyuki Jane Pinckard
- The Book of Witches edited by Jonathan Strahan
- The Heroine’s Journey by Gail Carringer
- The Unicorn by Iris Murdoch
- Call for submissions for the 2023 LHMP audio short story series. See here for details.
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 Miyuki Jane Pinckard Online
- Website: miyukijane.com
- Twitter: @miyukijane
- Instagram: @miyukijane
Saturday Oct 29, 2022
Saturday Oct 29, 2022
The Wolf that Sings on the Mountain by Miyuki Jane Pinckard
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 242 with Heather Rose Jones
This quarter’s fiction episode presents “The Wolf that Sings on the Mountain” by Miyuki Jane Pinckard, narrated by the author.
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 Miyuki Jane Pinckard Online
- Website: miyukijane.com
- Twitter: @miyukijane
- Instagram: @miyukijane
Saturday Oct 15, 2022
Saturday Oct 15, 2022
The Appeal of Anne/Jean-Baptiste Grandjean
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 241 with Heather Rose Jones
In this episode we talk about:
- The trial record of Anne/Jean-Baptiste Grandjean
- The context in which a woman was instructed to transition to a man in 18th century France
- Social and legal models of gender in the past
- The ambiguity of the historic record and the problem of “true identities”
- Sources mentioned
- Brief for Anne Grandjean, known by the name of Jean-Baptiste Grandjean, Accused & Appellant by M. Vermeil
- The full text of the source, in original, translation, and commentary, can be found on the Lesbian Historic Motif Project blog.
- This topic is discussed in one or more entries of the Lesbian Historic Motif Project here: Anne Grandjean
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 01, 2022
Saturday Oct 01, 2022
On the Shelf for October 2022
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 240 with Heather Rose Jones
Your monthly roundup of history, news, and the field of sapphic historical fiction.
In this episode we talk about:
- Recent convention activities
- Recent and upcoming publications covered on the blog
- 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
- Mémoire pour Anne Grandjean, connu sous le nom de Jean-Baptiste Grandjean, Accusé & Appellant. 1765. Louis Cellot, Paris.
- New and forthcoming fiction
- Christmas Secrets of the Soho Club: New Season New Secrets by various authors
- Pax Victoria (From the Ashes of Victory #6) by Cameron Darrow
- The Pannell Witch (The Pannell Witch #2) by Melissa Manners
- Siren’s Kiss by Ariel Spencer
- Reader, I Murdered Him by Betsy Cornwell
- Divided Lives by K.R. Mullins
- Maid to Love by S.J. Faden
- Nothing Sung and Nothing Spoken by Nita Tyndall
- A Belief in Her by Barbara Valletto
- Into the Riverlands by Nghi Vo
- What I’ve been reading
- Jane and the Canterbury Tale by Stephanie Barron
- Slippery Creatures by KJ Chalres
- The Oleander Sword by Tasha Suri
- Well…It’s Your Cow edited by Frog Jones
- Call for submissions for the 2023 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)
Saturday Sep 17, 2022
Saturday Sep 17, 2022
Our F/Favorite Tropes Part 3: Adapting Marriage Tropes
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 239 with Heather Rose Jones
In this episode we talk about:
- The structure of historic romance tropes focusing on marriage
- Historic relationships between women that can be used as marriage-analogues in tropes
- How separating the relationship aspect of the trope from the emotional dynamic creates the potential for even more angst and conflict
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 Sep 03, 2022
Saturday Sep 03, 2022
On the Shelf for September 2022
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 239 with Heather Rose Jones
Your monthly roundup of history, news, and the field of sapphic historical fiction.
In this episode we talk about:
- Recent and upcoming publications covered on the blog
- 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
- Call for submissions for the 2023 LHMP audio short story series. See here for details.
- New and forthcoming fiction
- Mackenzy O'Rorke P.I.: In the Case of the Dangerous Dames by Dee D. Matthews
- The Lioness Queen by Elly Greys/Alexia Damyl
- Temis and Lofn by Mary Eicher
- Queer Weird West Tales by various authors
- Sigrid and Elyn: A Tale of Norvegr (Tales of Norvegr 1) by Edale Lane
- Her Morning Star (Ladylike Inclinations #1) by Violet Cowper
- A Funeral for a Stranger by Eve Morton
- The Trunk by C.M. Castillo
- Rust in the Root by Justina Ireland
- The Killing Code by Ellie Marney
- What I’ve been consuming
- The Hellion’s Waltz by Olivia Waite (audiobook)
- Daughter of Mystery by Heather Rose Jones (audiobook)
- The Essex Serpent Netflix series based on the novel by Sarh Perry
- Miss Buncle’s Book by D.E. Stevenson
- A special appreciation segment on casual, unexpected positive queer representation in The Essex Serpent and Miss Buncle’s Book
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 Aug 20, 2022
Saturday Aug 20, 2022
Our F/Favorite Tropes Part 2: Spinsters
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 237 with Heather Rose Jones
In this episode we talk about:
- Overview of the trope series
- The social contexts of the spinster trope
- Singlewomen and spinsters in history
- Remaking the spinster trope for f/f romances
- This topic is discussed in one or more entries of the Lesbian Historic Motif Project here: singlewomen
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 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