This week’s Tale is, moving forwards, an annual topic I’d like to return to each November - as I do spooky things on Halloween and Christmassy things around Christmas. The week this script was written (13-19 November) was Transgender Awareness week. The 20th also marked Transgender Day of Remembrance - a commemorative day, originally in observance of the unsolved hate crime murder of Rita Hester, and subsequently a day to mourn the loss of trans people the world over that year. 

Though I try to keep myself out of the tales, as a rule, I see no reason not to tell the tales of other trans people from history once a year - cause Trans Visibility Matters. This year we’re going far back into the timeline to discuss an angry poet, a medieval barmaid, a couple of pagan religious orders, an emperor and a warrior prince/princess…            

Sources this week include: I wrote this script largely from memory, but did refer to 

This brief write up in the Jewish Virtual Library

And, easily one of my favourite reads of 2022, Janina Ramirez’ Femina.

The blog post of the episode is here.

December’s episode, out on The Enfundu should be out in the coming days.    

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