February 13, 2020

Queer histories

49 minutes

Morgan M Page, Jana Funke & Senthorum Raj look at how we apply modern LGBT+ language and identities to historical figures both real and fictional and what it means to have to "prove" your identity today in today's legal world. Shahidha Bari presents.

Morgan M Page is a writer, performance + video artist, and trans historian whose podcast is called One From The Vaults

Jana Funke teaches Medical Humanities at the University of Exeter

Senthorum Raj teaches at Keele University School of Law.

In the Free Thinking archives you can find programmes Writing Love: Jonathan Dollimore, Sappho https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08wn522

Queer Icons: Plato's Symposium https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08xcx1f

Censorship and Sex Naomi Wolf on John Addington Symonds and Sarah Parker on Michael Field https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00057k4

HD and Bryher are discussed, alongside Jane Harrison and Hope Mirrlees in this episode Pioneering Women: academics and classics https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000dj0g

Tom Smith explores the East German Military's fascination with its soldiers' sexuality https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00061m5

Weimar and the Subversion of Cabaret Culture https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000b7r7

Production team Caitlin Benedict & Alex Mansfield

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