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 04, 2020Policing Sexuality and Gender in Early Modern Europe - The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Episode 103
Policing Sexuality and Gender in Early Modern Europe
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 103 with Heather Rose Jones
A continuing look at the structure of categories for gender and sexuality in history, focusing on how specific individuals challenged category definitions.
Previous podcast in this series: Unpacking Gender and Sexuality Categories.
In this episode we talk about:
Anne Grandjean
Primary Souce: Memoire pour Anne Grandjean, Connu sous le Nom de Jean-Baptiste Granjean, Accusé & Appellant. 1765. Imprimerie de Louis Cellot, Paris. Available for free download from Google Books.
LHMP Links: Anne Grandjean
Jehanne and Laurence
Podcast
Primary Article: Benkov 2001
LHMP Links: Jehanne & Laurence
Elen@ de Céspedes
Primary Article: Burshatin 1996
LHMP Links: Elena/Eleno de Céspedes
Catalina de Erauso
Podcast
Primary Article: Velasco 2000
LHMP Links: Catalina de Erauso
Amy Poulter and Arabella Hunt
Podcast
Primary Article: Crawford & Mendelson 1995
LHMP Links: Amy Poulter & Arabella Hunt
Greta von Mösskirch
Podcast
Primary Source: Chronicle of the Counts of Zimmern
LHMP Links: Greta von Mösskirch
Thomas(ine) Hall
Primary Article: Brown 1995
LHMP Links: Thomas(ine) Hall
Catharine Vizzani
Podcast
Primary Source: The True History and Adventures of Catharine Vizzani
LHMP Links: Catharine Vizzani
Other References
Authorized gender-crossing in the Balkans - Horváth 2011 (will be posted 2019/05/13)
Nederman & True 1996 - 12th century opinions on a “third sex”
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)
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37min
October 04, 2020Interview with Zen Cho - The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Episode 102
Interview with Zen Cho
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 102 with Heather Rose Jones
An interview with fantasy author Zen Cho.
NOTE: This month’s On the Shelf incorrectly announced this month’s guest as Molly Tanzer. The Molly Tanzer interview will appear at a future date.
In this episode we talk about:
The Malaysian influences in Zen’s fiction
19th century English literature and engaging with colonial legacies through fiction
Her favorite historic eras that may see stories in the future
The challenges of researching less-represented historic eras and regions
Being inspired by the gaps and omissions in mainstream history
The similar challenges of writing queer characters and writing non-Western characters
Books mentioned
The True Queen by Zen Cho
Sorcerer to the Crown by Zen Cho
The Perilous Life of Jade Yeo by Zen Cho
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 Zen Cho Online
Website: zencho.org
Mailing Lists: Subscribe
Twitter: @zenaldehyde
Facebook: Zen Cho
Instagram: Zen Cho
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24min
October 04, 2020On the Shelf for April 2019 - The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Episode 101
On the Shelf for April 2019
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 101 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
Articles on 19th c women
Lesbian-like categories in Arabic literature
12th c European gender categories
Commentaries on Dinshaw’s Getting Medieval
Accusations of sodomy within the church
Gender-crossing in medieval French romances
Book Shopping for the blog
A Rainbow Thread: An Anthology of Queer Jewish Texts from the First Century to 1969, edited by Noam Sienna
Precious and Adored: The Love Letters of Rose Cleveland and Evangeline Simpson Whipple, 1890–1918
This month’s author guest is Zen Cho (originally announced as Molly Tanzer who will appear next month)
This month’s essay topic is: Policing Gender and Sexuality
New and forthcoming fiction
The Huntress by Kate Quinn (William Morrow Paperbacks)
Sleight of Hand by Ilse V Rensburg aka Jason Hes (Sera Blue)
Robber Girl by S. T. Gibson (self-published)
A Vengeance of Spies: A WW2 Novella by Manda Scott (self-published)
Mrs. Martin’s Incomparable Adventure by Courtney Milan (self-published)
Liliana by Diana Robbins (self-published)
Die Frau des Zuckerhändlers by Nathalie C. Kutscher (Telegonos-Publishing)
No Man's Chattel by Lee Swanson (self-published)
*S h e r l o c k i a n* Desdemona Valentina - A Femme Fatale Mystery - 1 (Desdemona Valentina Mysteries) by S.L. Freake (self-published)
Today Dauphine Tomorrow Nothing by Saga Hillborn (self-published)
Love’s Portrait by Anna Larner (Bold Strokes Books)
The Cursed Heart by Bonnie Wormsley (Regal Crest Enterprises)
Gentleman Jack (Movie Tie-In): The Real Anne Lister by Anne Choma (Penguin Books)
God's Children by Mabli Roberts (Honno Press)
Ask Sappho: What’s the history of the slang term ‘tommy’ for a lesbian?
Reference: Examining the OED: CASE STUDY: TERMS FOR LESBIAN(ISM)
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
32min
October 04, 2020The 100th Episode - Where My Heart Goes - The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Episode 100
The 100th Episode - Where My Heart Goes
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 100 with Heather Rose Jones
To celebrate the podcast’s 100th episode, I offer you a bonus story.
In this episode we talk about:
“Where My Heart Goes” by Heather Rose Jones, originally published in Through the Hourglass edited by Sacchi Green and Patty G. Henderson.
The real historical figures who inspired this story were discussed in episode #5 Laudomia Loves Margaret
A transcript of this podcast may be 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
32min
October 04, 2020Title: Alphabet of Signs and Jade Generals by Ursula Whitcher - The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Episode 99
Alphabet of Signs and Jade Generals by Ursula Whitcher
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 99 with Heather Rose Jones
The first stories in our 2019 fiction series. Written by Ursula Whitcher and narrated by Jasmine Arch.
“Alphabet of Signs”
“Jade Genderals”
A transcript of this podcast may be 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: http://yarntheory.net
Twitter: @superyarn
Links to Jasmine Arch Online
Website: http://www.jasminearch.com
Twitter: @Jaye_Arch
...more
12min
October 04, 2020Laudomia Loves Margaret (Reprise) - The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Episode 98
Laudomia Loves Margaret (Reprise)
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 98 with Heather Rose Jones
The 16th century romance between Sienese poet and intellectual Laudomia Forteguerri and Duchess Margaret of Austria.
In this episode we talk about:
Translations and the context of the poetry Laudomia wrote for Margaret can be found in:
Eisenbichler, Konrad. “Laudomia Forteguerri Loves Margaret of Austria” in Same Sex Love and Desire Among Women in the Middle Ages (ed. By Francesca Canadé Sautman & Pamela Sheingorn), Palgrave, New York, 2001.
This topic is discussed in one or more entries of the Lesbian Historic Motif Project here:
Laudomia Forteguerri
Margaret Duchess of Austria/Parma
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
October 04, 2020Book Appreciation with Katharine Duckett - The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Episode 97
Book Appreciation with Katharine Duckett
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 97 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 Katharine Duckett recommends some favorite queer historical novels:
Books mentioned
The Last Nude by Ellis Avery
Passing Strange by Ellen Klages
Hild by Nichola Griffith
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 Katharine Duckett Online
Website: https://www.katharineduckett.com
Twitter: @kekduckett
...more
7min
October 04, 2020Interview with Katharine Duckett - The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Episode 96
Interview with Katharine Duckett
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 96 with Heather Rose Jones
A series of interviews with authors of historically-based fiction featuring queer women.
In this episode we talk about:
Katharine’s debut novella from Tor.com: Miranda in Milan
The jumping off point of the story from Shakespeare’s The Tempest
Historic Milan and the Sforzas
Books mentioned
Miranda in Milan by Katharine Duckett (Tor.com)
Leonardo da Vinci by Walter Isaacson
Disabled People Destroy Fantasy (fiction editor: Katharine Duckett) a special issue of Uncanny
Sharp and Sugar Tooth (anthology) edited by Octavia Cade (Upper Rubber Boot Books)
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 Katharine Duckett Online
Website: https://www.katharineduckett.com
Twitter: @kekduckett
...more
20min
October 04, 2020On the Shelf for March 2019 - The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Episode 95
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
Women in sexological literature ca. 1900
More on Anne Lister
Arabic sources for lesbian-like themes
Transgender concepts in the middle ages
This month’s author guest is Katharine Duckett
This month’s essay will look at how people who don’t fit their culture’s gender/sexuality categories provide information about the categories
New and forthcoming fiction
How to Talk to Nice English Girls by Gretchen Evans (Carnation Books)
As War Goes By by Aimée (Amazon digital)
By Royal Lottery by M. Wyllie (Amazon digital)
Sophistries of Summer Days by Jenny Lofters (Amazon digital)
Memoirs of a Triangle by Christine Twigg (NineStar Press)
The Highwayman by Eleanor Musgrave (Amazon digital)
Miranda in Milan by Katharine Duckett (Tor.com)
The Parting Glass by Gina Marie Guadagnino (Touchstone)
Alice Payne Rides (Alice Payne #2) by Kate Heartfield (Tor.com)
The True Queen by Zen Cho (Ace)
Levitate: A Spy Novel by Geonn Cannon (Supposed Crimes)
Ask Sappho: Eh Stevens asks “What’s your take on Eleanor Roosevelt and Lorena Hickok?”
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
23min
October 03, 2020Prepositions, Sexuality, and Gender: Unpacking Our Bundles - The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Episode 94
Prepositions, Sexuality, and Gender: Unpacking Our Bundles
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 94 with Heather Rose Jones
A really geeky philosophical discussion about the semantics of prepositions across different languages, and how we can use that as a gateway to thinking about different cultural models of sexuality and gender. This is the first part of a two-part series that looks at the complex differences in how gender and sexuality has been understood in different times and places, and what that means for the search for identification and connection with historic figures.
In this episode we talk about
Thinking of prepositions (and gender/sexuality categories) as bundles of distinct meaning-features that can be combined in different ways in different languages/cultures
Picking apart some of the types of meaning-features that are used to build gender and sexuality categories.
An example of different ways in which the same bundle of gender/sexuality features might be interpreted based on cultural models and assumptions
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

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