Heather Rose Jones

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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Guest Blog: L.J. Lee—Sossang and Danji: 15th century Korean maidservants in love | Alpennia

I’m formatting this guest blog as an LHMP entry so that it can be picked up by search tags.

Nov 29, 2024 at 6:21pmWeb
Show threadScarab (Sarah)Nov 30, 2024
@heatherrosejones @ljwrites "The government pushed to give these children their freedom so they would owe labor and taxation to the state, while the enslaving classes pushed for children of free-enslaved unions to be enslaved to them so they could continue to extract labor and payment down the generations." Oh, wow.
Show threadAuthor-ized L.J.Dec 1, 2024
@Configures Yeah, to the state freedom for the enslaved meant the freedom of the working classes to work for the state (in rotations at different times of year) and/or pay. Of course, what the working classes wanted was the freedom like the upper classes (Yangban) to avoid such work, so lots of them would go on to launder their origins to pass as nobility. The class movements caused by the overtaxation of the working classes and undertaxation of the upper classes would bring about social upheaval and increasing breakdown of the state. @heatherrosejones