Here's a lovely article about photographer Alice Austen, commitment to queer relationships, & queer history:
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Photographer Alice Austen was the queer star of the Gilded Age
"[...] as one of America’s earliest and most adventurous women photographers and for her relationship with Gertrude Tate, which spanned more than half a century."
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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.
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).
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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The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast's 2024 fiction series wraps up with "A Very Long Malaise" by L.J. Lee, set in 18th c Korea. This is my favorite kind of story: beautifully written, deeply embedded in the historic setting, realistic but never tragic.
https://alpennia.com/blog/lesbian-historic-motif-podcast-episode-301-very-long-malaise-lj-lee
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As an accompaniment to tomorrow's Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast fiction episode by @ljwrites, I'm proud and delighted to present an article she wrote on two 15th century Korean women whose romantic and sexual relationship was recorded in the context of a court scandal.
https://alpennia.com/blog/guest-blog-lj-lee-sossang-and-danji-15th-century-korean-maidservants-love
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This article on prosecutions for female sodomy in the Netherlands finishes up the material I flagged to read as background for the #LesbianHistoricMotifProject Podcast's "Lesbians and Law" episode. Now I need to get started on that podcast script!
https://alpennia.com/blog/anomalous-spate-prosecutions-female-sodomy
This is the last article I had flagged to finish before writing the "Lesbians and the Law" episode for the podcast, though of course there are many more publications relevant to the topic that I haven't yet read. One of the eternal truths of this project is that I can never wait to know "everything" before writing on a topic. That's going to be a real pain point when I work on
Currently the #LesbianHistoricMotifProject is focusing on books and articles about the legal context of lesbianism (in preparation for a podcast on the topic). Here's another publication by legal scholar Caroline Derry this time analyzing the famous Pirie & Woods case.
This article fits in well with the question of what the actual legal issues are when lesbianism is part of the context of a legal case. When you dig into it, the central usefulness of Pirie & Woods vs Cumming Gordon is not what it says about whether two specific women had a lesbian relationship, but rather the amount of detail it provides about legal and social attitudes
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