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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 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
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
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
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
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)
Saturday Apr 02, 2022
Saturday Apr 02, 2022
On the Shelf for April 2022
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 226 with Heather Rose Jones
Your monthly roundup of history, news, and the field of sapphic historical fiction.
In this episode we talk about:
- When is a fairy tale retelling a historic story?
- 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
- Book Shopping
- 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
- Promises in Pompeii (Ancient Ashes #1) by Violet Morley
- Cowboys and Kisses by Karin Kallmaker
- Once in Berlin by Jo Havens
- The Undesirables by Lumen Reese
- Walks with Spirits by Edale Lane
- Spear by Nicola Griffith
- The Language of Roses by Heather Rose Jones
- Something Bright by R. Cooper
- This Rebel Heart by Katherine Locke
- What am I reading?
- A Conspiracy in Belgravia (Lady Sherlock #2) by Sherry Thomas
- The Hollow of Fear (Lady Sherlock #3) by Sherry Thomas
- The Art of Theft (Lady Sherlock #4) by Sherry Thomas
- Band Sinister by K.J. Charles
- Backwards to Oregon by Jae
- Orlando Furioso by Ariosto (trans. Guido Waldman)
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)
Monday Mar 21, 2022
Monday Mar 21, 2022
A History of Lesbian Sex in Pornography
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 225 with Heather Rose Jones
With apologies for the sound quality problems in the originally-posted version of this episode.
Note: This episode has an accompanying slide show, which can be accessed through the YouTube version of the podcast. (See transcript link.) Please note that the video includes explicit sexual imagery.
In this episode we talk about:
- A brief history of pornography/erotica as a social and legal category
- The varied and changing place of sex between women in pornography
- The rise of pornography as a socio-political force across the 18th and 19th centuries
- The intertwined history of pornography and sensational medical literature
- How pornography of the “decadent” era both objectified lesbian sex and opened doors to lesbian self-representation
- Images—all images are sincerely believed to be in the public domain, based on the evidence cited in Wikimedia, which is linked when available.
- 1. From Jean-Charles de Latouche(?) Histoire de Dom Bougre, portier des Chartreux 1748
- 2. From I Modi (The modes), sonnet by Pietro Aretino art by Marcantonio Raimondi, mid-16th c
- 3. Marcantonio Raimondi Woman with a dildo mid-16th c
- 4. Johann Heinrich Tischbein Diana & Callisto 18th c
- 5. Pompeii - fresco in a bathhouse
- 6. Illustration of “sodomites” from a Bible Moralisée Vienna MS 2554
- 7. Jean Mignon Women bathing ca. 1535-1555
- 8. Nicholas Chorier L’Academie des Dames 1660
- 9. L’Ecole des filles (The School for Venus) 19th c. illustration
- 10. Jean Barrin Venus dans le Cloitre, ou La Religieuse en Chemise (Venus in the Convent) 1683
- 11. Delarivere Manley The New Atalantis 1714
- 12. Denis Diderot La Religieuse (The Nun) 1797 edition
- 13. Thérèse Philosophe (Therese the Philosopher) 1748
- 14. From Jean-Charles de Latouche(?) Histoire de Dom Bougre, portier des Chartreux 1748
- 15. Illustration from Giacomo Casanova A History of My Life by Jules-Adolphe Chauvet, late 19th c illustration for 18th c text
- 16. Marquis de Sade Juliette 1797
- 17. Illustration from Le paysan ét la paysane pervertis; ou Les dangérs de la ville (The Perverted Peasant-man and Peasant-woman; or the Dangers of the Town by Restif de La Bretonne 1787
- 18. Political attack pamphlet showing Queen Marie Antoinette in a lesbian embrace
- 19. Political attack pamphlet showing Queen Marie Antoinette in a lesbian embrace
- 20. Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres The Turkish Bath 1862
- 21. Les Deux Amies (The Two Girlfriends) by Jean-Jacques Lagrenée
- 22. Lesbian Games – anonymous lithograph ca. 1840
- 23. Illustration by Aubrey Beardsley for Théophile Gautier’s Mademoiselle de Maupin, 1835
- 24. Nicolas Francois Octave Tassaert Le Femme Damnée (inspired by the poetry of Baudelaire) 1859
- 25. Cover for Adolphe Belot Mademoiselle Giraud ma Femme (Mlle. Giraud my Wife) 1870
- 26. George Barbier 1922 illustration for Pierre Louÿs The Songs of Bilitis 1894
- 27. Frontispiece for Catulle Mendès Lila and Colette 1885
- 28. Gustave Courbet Le Sommeil (the sleepers) 1866
- This topic is discussed in one or more entries of the Lesbian Historic Motif Project here: Sex between women
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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)