The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast

By Heather Rose Jones

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.... more

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October 20, 2020“Your Fingers Like Pen and Ink” by Jeannelle M. Ferreira - The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Episode 173
“Your Fingers Like Pen and Ink” by Jeannelle M. Ferreira
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 173 with Heather Rose Jones
The LHMPodcast fiction series presents a story by Jeannelle M. Ferreira, set in a late 19th century Russian Jewish community. Jeannelle is also the author of The Covert Captain: or, A Marriage of Equals. The story is narrated by Violet Dixon, who also recorded the audiobook of The Covert Captain.
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 Jeannelle M. Ferreira Online
Website: https://jeannellewrites.wordpress.com/
Twitter: @JeannelleWrites
...more
22min
October 20, 2020Artificial Scarcity of Representation: Asexual Artemis/Lesbian Diana - The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Episode 172
Artificial Scarcity of Representation: Asexual Artemis/Lesbian Diana
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 172 with Heather Rose Jones
An exploration of the mythic figures of Artemis and Diana
In this episode we talk about:
Their complex and contradictory mythology and religious traditions
How Artemis/Diana was represented in later literature and art
Diana & Callisto: the lesbian tradition
Diana vs. Venus: the asexual tradition
Why we need to stop fighting over them
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)
...more
24min
October 20, 2020Book Appreciation: Artemis/Diana in Fiction - The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Episode 171
Book Appreciation: Artemis/Diana in Fiction
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 171 with Heather Rose Jones
In the Book Appreciation segments, our featured authors (or your host) will talk about one or more favorite books with queer female characters in a historic setting.
In this episode we talk about works featuring the goddess of the hunt, either n her Greek form as Artemis or as Roman Diana.
Books mentioned
The Titan’s Curse by Rick Riordan
Artemis the Brave by Joan Holub and Suzanne Williams
Outrun the Wind by Elizabeth Tammi
Goddess of the Hunt by Shelby Eileen
Theia Mania by Li Österberg
Olympic Hearts by Madeline Kelly
The Arrow of Artemis Trilogy by K Aten
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)
...more
8min
October 20, 2020Diana and Callisto: The Sometimes Problematic Search for Representation (reprise) - The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Episode 170
Diana and Callisto: The Sometimes Problematic Search for Representation (reprise)
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 170 with Heather Rose Jones
Ovid’s myth of Diana and Callisto had lasting popularity through the medieval and early modern periods and provided a context for some unexpected representation of erotic interactions between women. But hoo boy are there some problematic aspects to this topic!
In this episode we talk about:
The goddess Diana and her attributes
The myths of Diana and Acteon, and of Diana and Callisto
Virginity and chastity and what they have to do with lesbians
Why the Callisto story has some major issues when considered through a transgender lens
Female homoerotic art and the male gaze
The goddess Diana as a symbol of women’s separatist lives in literature
This topic is discussed in one or more entries of the Lesbian Historic Motif Project here:
Diana and Callisto
Artistic representation
Marriage Resistance
Gender disguise: m>f
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)
...more
25min
October 20, 2020On the Shelf for August 2020 - The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Episode 169
On the Shelf for August 2020
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 169 with Heather Rose Jones
Your monthly update on what the Lesbian Historic Motif Project has been doing.
In this episode we talk about:
The podcast is four years old!
Recent and upcoming publications covered on the blog
Armenian astrology text (British Library Ms. Or. 6471)
Kuefler, Mathew (ed). 2007. The History of Sexuality Sourcebook. Broadview Press, Ontario. ISBN 978-1-55111-738-6
Engelstein, Laura. 1990. "Lesbian Vignettes: A Russian Triptych from the 1890s" in Signs vol. 15, no. 4 813-831.
Robertson, Jennifer. 1999. "Dying to Tell: Sexuality and Suicide in Imperial Japan" in Signs vol. 25, no. 1 1-35.
Hatem, Mervat. 1986. "The Politics of Sexuality and Gender in Segregated Patriarchal Systems: The Case of Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Egypt" in Feminist Studies vol. 12, no. 2 250-274.
Phillips, Kim M. & Barry Reay. 2011. Sex Before Sexuality: A Premodern History. Polity Press, Cambridge. ISBN 978-0-7456-2522-5
TBD
This month we have a theme focusing on the mythological figure of Artemis/Diana:
Reprise: Diana and Callisto: The Sometimes Problematic Search for Representation
Book Appreciation: Stories involving Artemis/Diana
Asexual Artemis/Lesbian Diana: Artificial Scarcity and Representation
Original Fiction: “Your Fingers Like Pen and Ink” by Jeannelle M. Ferreira
New and forthcoming fiction
The Miseducation of Evie Epworth by Matson Taylor
All Men Want to Know by Nina Bouraoui (translated by Aneesa Abbas Higgins)
Guarding Hearts by Jaycie Morrison
Keeping Secrets by McGee Mathews
Call for submissions for the 2021 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)
...more
13min
October 19, 2020Humors, Horoscopes, and Homosexuality - The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Episode 168
Humors, Horoscopes, and Homosexuality
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 168 with Heather Rose Jones
In this episode we talk about:
This history of astrological explanations for sexual preference
The lack of a “unified model of homosexuality”
The relation of gender and sexual preference under the “one-sex model”
The basics of humoral theory
How sex affects humoral balance
The connections between astrology and humoral theory
How fiction can use this topic to explore characterization
Books used
Amer, S. 2009. “Medieval Arab Lesbians and 'Lesbian-Like'” in Journal of the History of Sexuality, 18(2), 215-236.
Brooten, Bernadette J. 1997. Love Between Women: Early Christian Responses to Female Homoeroticism.University of Chicago Press, Chicago. ISBN 0-226-07591-5
Cadden, Joan. 1993. Meanings of Sex Difference in the Middle Ages: Medicine, Science, and Culture. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-48378-6
Decker-Hauff, Hansmartin and Rudolf Seigel (editors). 1967. Die Cronik der Grafen von Zimmern: Handschriften 580 und 581 der Fürstlich Fürstenbergischen Hofbibliothek Donaueschingen. Jan Thorbecke Verlag, Konatanz und Stuttgart.
Habib, Samar. 2009. Arabo-Islamic Texts on Female Homosexuality: 850-1780 A.D. Teneo Press, Youngstown. ISBN 978-1-934844-11-3
Hubbard, Thomas K. 2003. Homosexuality in Greece and Rome: A Sourcebook of Basic Documents. University of California Press, Berkeley. ISBN 978-0-520-23430-7
Laqueur, Thomas. 1990. Making Sex: Body and Gender from the Greeks to Freud. Harvard University Press, Cambridge. ISBN 0-674-54349-1
Lemay, Helen Rodnite. 1982. “Human Sexuality in Twelfth- through Fifteenth-Century Scientific Writings” in Sexual Practices and the Medieval Church, Vern L. Bullough and James Brundage eds. Prometheus Books, Buffalo. ISBN 0-87975-141-X
Nederman, Cary J. and Jacqui True. 1996. “The Third Sex: The Idea of the Hermaphrodite in Twelfth-Century Europe” in Journal of the History of Sexuality 6:4: 497-517.
Traub, Valerie. 2002. The Renaissance of Lesbianism in Early Modern England. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. ISBN 0-521-44885-9
Velasco, Sherry. 2011. Lesbians in Early Modern Spain. Vanderbilt University Press, Nashville. ISBN 978-0-8265-1750-0
This topic is discussed in one or more entries of the Lesbian Historic Motif Project here:
Astrological Texts
Humoral Theory
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)
...more
28min
October 19, 2020Book Appreciation with Luci Dreamer - The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Episode 167
Book Appreciation with Luci Dreamer
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 167 with Heather Rose Jones
In the Book Appreciation segments, our featured authors (or your host) will talk about one or more favorite books with queer female characters in a historic setting.
In this episode we talk about:
The book that started her love of historic fiction
Text versus audio-books
Books mentioned
Backwards to Oregon by Jae
Fingersmith by Sarah Waters
Tipping the Velvet by Sarah Waters
The Night Watch by Sarah Waters
A transcript of this podcast may be available here. (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 Luci Dreamer Online
Website: Luci Dreamer
Twitter: @LuciDreamer70
...more
8min
October 19, 2020Interview with Luci Dreamer - The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Episode 166
Interview with Luci Dreamer
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 166 with Heather Rose Jones
A series of interviews with authors of historically-based fiction featuring queer women.
In this episode we talk about:
Luci’s plans for the trilogy
The call of the Klondike
Handling cross-gender performance
The book’s origins in Wynona Earp fanfic
Books mentioned
Heart of Gold by Luci Dreamer
The Call of the Wild by Jack London
In the Black by Luci Dreamer (contemporary)
A transcript of this podcast may be available here. (Transcripts are added as 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 Luci Dreamer Online
Website: Luci Dreamer
Twitter: @LuciDreamer70
...more
21min
October 19, 2020On the Shelf for July 2020 - The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Episode 165
On the Shelf for July 2020
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 165 with Heather Rose Jones
Your monthly update on what the Lesbian Historic Motif Project has been doing.
In this episode we talk about:
Recent and upcoming publications covered on the blog
Boyd, David Lorenzo & Ruth Mazo Karras. 1995. "The Interrogation of a Male Transvestite Prostitute in Fourteenth-Century London" in GLQ vol. 1, 459-465.
Klosowska, Anna. 2005. Queer Love in the Middle Ages. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 1-4039-6342-8
Traub, Valerie. 1994. “The (In)Significance of ‘Lesbian’ Desire in Early Modern England” in Queering the Renaissance ed. by Jonathan Goldberg. Duke University Press, Durham and London. ISBN 0-8223-1381-2
Stephens, Dorothy. 1994. “Into Other Arms: Amoret’s Evasion”” in Queering the Renaissance ed. by Jonathan Goldberg. Duke University Press, Durham and London. ISBN 0-8223-1381-2
Crawford, Katherine. 2007. European Sexualities, 1400-1800. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0521548403
An early 17th century Armenian astrology manual depicting sex between women
Kuefler, Mathew (ed). 2007. The History of Sexuality Sourcebook. Broadview Press, Ontario. ISBN 978-1-55111-738-6
Engelstein, Laura. 1990. "Lesbian Vignettes: A Russian Triptych from the 1890s" in Signs vol. 15, no. 4 813-831.
Robertson, Jennifer. 1999. "Dying to Tell: Sexuality and Suicide in Imperial Japan" in Signs vol. 25, no. 1 1-35.
This month’s author guest is still being arranged.
New and forthcoming fiction
Love, Wherever it Falls by Katherine Chandler
I Love You, Nora Whispered by Kathy L. Salt
Budding Romance by Lara Kinsey
Resurrectionist: The Diary of Doctor Du, Book Two by M.S. Linsenmayer
A Matter of Blood (The Unlikely Adventures of Mortensen & Spurlock Book 2) by Lucy True (aka Jea Hawkins)
Girl, Serpent, Thorn by Melissa Bashardoust
The Care and Feeding of Waspish Widows (Feminine Pursuits 2) by Olivia Waite
The Pull of the Stars by Emma Donoghue
Call for submissions for the 2021 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)
...more
16min
October 18, 2020Lesbian-Like History and Racial Othering - The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Episode 164
Lesbian-Like History and Racial Othering
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 164 with Heather Rose Jones
An unblinking look at the historic intersection of women’s same-sex relations and racial othering
In this episode we talk about:
Finding historic writing from within non-Western cultures
Habib, Samar. 2009. Arabo-Islamic Texts on Female Homosexuality: 850-1780 A.D. Teneo Press, Youngstown. ISBN 978-1-934844-11-3
Vanita, Ruth and Saleem Kidwai, eds. 2000. Same-Sex Love in India: Readings from Literature and History. St. Martin’s, New York. ISBN 0-312-22169-X
Morgan, Ruth and Saskia Wierenga. 2005. Tommy Boys, Lesbian Men, and Ancestral Wives: Female Same-Sex Practices in Africa .Jacana Press, Johannesburg.
”They Do it Over There; Not Here”
”They Especially Do it in Turkey”
Masculinizing Women of Color
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)
...more
15min

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