A relatively short Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast episode for February's "On the Shelf" -- where are all my new Sapphic historic Valentine's Day books? (Probably mostly self-published and not visible online yet. Folks: tell me about your books so I can promote them!)
https://alpennia.com/blog/lesbian-historic-motif-podcast-episode-306-shelf-february-2025
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Last day to get submissions in for the Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast's 2025 fiction series! Polish up that sapphic historical short story and get it into my in-box before I wake up tomorrow.
Let me know if you've sent a story and haven't received an acknowledgement.
https://alpennia.com/lhmp/essays/call-submissions-2025-lesbian-historic-motif-podcast-fiction-series
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The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast will be open for submissions in January 2025 for short stories in the lesbian historic fiction genre, to be produced in audio format for the podcast, as well as published in text on the website. I strongly advise authors to review these guidelines thoroughly before submitting. If your submission doesn't meet the requirements, you will have
Three months in the making! The #LesbianHistoricMotifProject Podcast episode on "Lesbians and the Law" is up (only one day late). We ask the question "was it ever illegal to be a lesbian in the pre-20th century West?" It's complicated. Probably not as illegal as you think.
https://alpennia.com/blog/lesbian-historic-motif-podcast-episode-305-lesbians-and-law
Another #LesbianHistoricMotifProject blog following Stephen Turton's work with the history of queer vocabulary in English.
It's often the case that my bibliography includes not only substantial books on queer history, but the articles written by the same author as they developed the material--sometimes across decades. I have a couple articles by Turton in my list, and this one seemed like a good chaser.
New episode for the Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast: On the Shelf for January 2025.
And don't forget that submissions are open for the 2025 fiction series! (I'm not saying the first submission received gets extra consideration, but it makes me feel better. *hint*)
https://alpennia.com/blog/lesbian-historic-motif-podcast-episode-304-shelf-january-2025
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The #LesbianHIstoricMotifProject is still working through Turton's Before the Word Was Queer. Today's chapter is on medical dictionaries and their obsession with the (supposed) physiological effects of f/f sex.
https://alpennia.com/blog/lesbians-medical-dictionaries
The Lesbian Historic Motif Project continues to blog about Stephen Turton's Before the Word Was Queer -- a history of how queer vocabulary has been handled in English dictionaries.
https://alpennia.com/blog/words-long-ago-and-far-away
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This chapter picks up a theme we've seen regularly across time and geography, where everyone attributes the origins of same-sex sexuality to "foreigners" and as something that only happened long ago (or at least, has only recently arrived in the speaker's home territory).
Continuing the #LesbianHistoricMotifProject's read-though of Stephen Turton's Before the Word Was Queer.
In reading about the history of how dictionary publishers deliberately obscured or silenced discussions of sex -- especially of non-normative sex -- I can't help but think of the current (and periodic) panics over controlling the access of children to information about sex and gender. The attitude prevalent in the early modern period that simply knowing about certain sex acts
A couple days tardy, but well worth the wait! The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast interviews author Margaret Vandenburg about queerness, history, postmodernism, and her new novel Craze.
https://alpennia.com/blog/lesbian-historic-motif-podcast-episode-303-interview-margaret-vandenburg
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It's the December "On the Shelf" episode of the Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast! This is your best genre-focused venue for sapphic/lesbian historical fiction: reader, author, or publisher, we're here for you! All episodes have transcripts for those who prefer.
https://alpennia.com/blog/lesbian-historic-motif-podcast-episode-302-shelf-december-2024
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Heather Rose Jones