Sweetbitter | A Sappho (S1) & Pirates (S2) History Podcast

By Leesa Charlotte, Ellie Brigida & Alyse KnorrEducation History

Sweetbitter | A Sappho (S1) & Pirates (S2) History Podcast episodes

December 23, 2021 Pirates: the Uskoks
This episode, we discuss the Uskoks, but are they REALLY Pirates?
Thank you to our guest this week, Wendy Bracewell. Our Pirate Shanty this week is written, performed & edited by Joshua Nelson.
As always, you can find us on Twitter and Instagram @sweetbitterpod.You can support us on Patreon at patreon.com/sweetbitter.
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47 min
December 13, 2021 Vote for the Murderesses of Cook County Jail for iHeartRadio's Next Great Podcast!
Please vote for Leesa & Lungowe to win iHeartRadio's Next Great Podcast!
Go to nextgreatpodcast.com to vote before Dec 15th!
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1 min
December 09, 2021 Pirates: Grace O'Malley
This episode, we discuss the Irish Pirate Queen - Grace O'Malley.
Thank you to our guests this week, Laura Duncombe, Ryan Burns and Anne Chambers. Our Pirate Shanty this week is by Alyse Knorr with engineering by Joshua Nelson.
As always, you can find us on Twitter and Instagram @sweetbitterpod.You can support us on Patreon at patreon.com/sweetbitter.
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1 hr 10 min
November 04, 2021 Pirates: Teuta
This episode, we discuss the ancient pirate, Teuta.

Thank you to our guests this week, Laura Duncombe and Brandon Jones. Our Pirate Shanty this week is by Alyse Knorr with engineering by Joshua Nelson. As always, you can find us on Twitter and Instagram @sweetbitterpod.You can support us on Patreon at patreon.com/sweetbitter.
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38 min
October 14, 2021 Pirates: Women Pirates
This episode, we discuss some of our fave women Pirates!

Thank you to our guests this week, Rebecca Simon and Laura Duncombe. Our Pirate Shanty this week is by Alyse Knorr with engineering by Joshua Nelson. As always, you can find us on Twitter and Instagram @sweetbitterpod.You can support us on Patreon at patreon.com/sweetbitter.
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34 min
September 30, 2021 Pirates: Queer Pirates II
This episode is our second of two-parts about Queer Pirates! Content warning, we discuss sexual violence in this episode.

Thank you to our guests this week, Jamie Goodall and Nick Marsellas. Our Pirate Shanty this week is by Alyse Knorr with instrumental, vocals and engineering by Joshua Nelson. As always, you can find us on Twitter and Instagram @sweetbitterpod.You can support us on Patreon at patreon.com/sweetbitter.
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26 min
September 16, 2021 Pirates: Queer Pirates I
This episode is our first of two-parts about Queer Pirates! Were the Jolly Rogers getting their Rogers jollied or was matelotage just about economics? Or both?

Thank you to our guests this week, Jamie Goodall, Clint Jones, Rebecca Simon and Christopher John Farley. Our Pirate Shanty this week is by Alyse Knorr with instrumental, vocals and engineering by Joshua Nelson. As always, you can find us on Twitter and Instagram @sweetbitterpod.You can support us on Patreon at patreon.com/sweetbitter.

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32 min
September 02, 2021 Pirates: Introduction
This episode, we take a broad look at pirates and their lives with the help of our guests. Did pirates really bury treasure and make treasure maps? And were Pirate Ships utopic societies or chaotic af?

Thank you to our guests this week, Jamie Goodall, Rebecca Simon, Wendy Bracewell and Clint Jones. You can read more about our guests and where to find them on our website. Our Pirate Shanty this week is by Joshua Nelson. As always, you can find us on Twitter and Instagram @sweetbitterpod.You can support us on Patreon at patreon.com/sweetbitter.

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45 min
August 19, 2021 Pirates: Welcome to Season 2!
Welcome to season 2 of Sweetbitter! This season, we bring you a high-seas adventure full of surprises as we uncover the queer & women’s history of pirates. In this episode, Ellie, Alyse & Leesa talk about what's coming up this season and what we're looking forward to!

Thanks to Chloe Duckart and Joshua Nelson for their contributions to the Pirates all are gay sea shanty. As always, you can find us on Twitter and Instagram @sweetbitterpod.You can support us on Patreon at patreon.com/sweetbitter.

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28 min
May 27, 2021 Season One Wrap-up (live recording)
We had such a blast wrapping up our first season of the podcast! Please enjoy this live recording of the event, along with some incredible guests: Kristin Russo (Buffering the Vampire Slayer), Liv Albert (Let's Talk About Myth's Baby), Leigh (History is Gay) and Vanessa Stovall (Playwright & Musician) -- and also the audience members who joined us.

We can't wait to see y'all for season 2! In the meantime, you can keep in touch with us via Twitter & Instagram @sweetbitterpod.

You can support us on patreon.com/sweetbitter - we have a bunch of bonus episodes for patrons at all levels.

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1 hr 54 min

About Sweetbitter | A Sappho (S1) & Pirates (S2) History Podcast

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About Sweetbitter | Sweetbitter is an investigative history podcast with a focus on queer & women's history. Each season, we explore a different corner of history,…

using historical figures and texts as a starting point to discuss a broader story of erasure of people with marginalized identities. Along with the listener, in collaboration with multidisciplinary experts, we untangle untold histories for a modern audience.

Season 1 | Sappho is the first known woman in the European literary tradition, one of only a few poets we know from antiquity and the o-g lesbian (or rather, where the word “lesbian” originates from). While much of Sappho’s work was destroyed, with only one full poem, Ode to Aphrodite, remaining, she is considered one of the best poets of all time, known as both the “Tenth Muse” and “the Poetess.” Despite her first-person, female-loving poetry, some scholars have fought against the popular image of Sappho as both a woman and lover of women, and still do today.

In the first season of Sweetbitter, we delved into the truth and controversy of Sappho’s life, the Isle of Lesbos and homosexuality in ancient Greece. Was Kerkylas of Andros (translation: “Penis of Mansville”) Sappho’s husband, or a wink to her known love of women? Did she really have a daughter named Kleos, or was she her young lover?

Collaborating with experts in the fields of poetry, queer studies, theatre and Ancient Greece, we will untangle the life of Sappho including the importance of her work and sexuality in modern times.

Season 2 | In our second season, we bring you a high-seas adventure full of surprises as we uncover the queer & women’s history of pirates. Gay love and even marriage were more common in the 17th-century world of pirates than we might expect, and history is full of cross-dressing, swashbuckling pirates who broke gender norms and created their own queer culture. Even Johnny Depp, in the Pirates of the Caribbean series, intentionally played Captain Jack Sparrow as a gay man.

Collaborating with experts in the field, we take a deep dive into the stories you don’t hear in the mainstream, exploring why they have been erased for hundreds of years.

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