This post is mostly an exercise in convincing myself that I've been productive this year, even though I only had two pieces of fiction come out (and one of those was a self-published free novelette). I hope that it may have a second purpose, which is to entice people who don't follow my blog to consider doing so. I will freely confess that one of the reasons I blog so extensively is that pernicious voice whispering in my brain, "Maybe if you just write enough, if you research enough, if you make yourself useful enough to other people, maybe then they'll want to talk to you and be your friend." I recognize this for the fallacy it is. No one has contracted with me for this output. No one owes me eyes or attention. And there are wonderful people who would be my friend even if I weren't blogging. But there it is: I own that aspect of it. I even blogged about it. (Of course I did.)
For entries posted in the first 3/4 of the year, I'm mostly linking to Live Journal (exceptions being some of the longer series that have their own tag at the Alpennia.com blog). Entries from the last 1/4 or so of the year (after I set up a blog at my own website) are linked to my Alpennia Blog.
So what have I written this year? Here's a brief overview. The majority of this material either falls generally in SFF topics, or in historical topics (especially my lesbian history project and related material).
Random Thoughts and Philosophical Discussions
Non-Industrial Metaphors for Anger (2016/02/03) - More on the topic of metaphoric reasoning.
Failure Modes of Metaphoric Thinking (2016/02/10) - The conclusion of my brief series on the topic.
To Do and To Let Be (2016/03/10) - How do you know when something will improve spontaneously?
Poem: 2016 (2016/044/21) - Inspired by the conversation about notable deaths in 2016.
Process of Writing (does not include general progress reports and teasers for Mother of Souls)
Guest Blog: Lesbian Fiction Appreciation Event (2016/01/30) - "Puzzle it Out"
Unicorn Management, or Inspiration Around Us (2016/02/11) - Just where do I get my ideas?
Revisions, Revisions, Revisions (2016/06/07) - An overall look at my book revision process.
The Awkwardness of Category Defaults, or Under What Circumstances am I a Man Writing Gay Sci Fi?
A Pretty Girl is Like a Melody... (2016/09/08) - Musical structures and fictional structures.
To Dance, Perchance to Dream (2016/10/11) - On inventing social customs for a fictional country.
Convention Reports (Many of my convention reports discuss issues of being an introvert at SFF conventions, just in case this is a particular interest of the reader)
Kalamazoo Medieval Conference (2016/05/13-15)
Bay Con (2016/05/28-31)
Worldcon (2016/08/17-21)
111. Walen, Denise A. 2005. Constructions of Female Homoeroticism in Early Modern Drama. New York: Palgrave MacMillan. ISBN 978-1-4039-6875-3
112. Castle, Terry (ed). 2003. The Literature of Lesbianism: A Historical Anthology from Ariosto to Stonewall. Columbia University Press, New York. ISBN 0-231-12510-0
113. Bennett, Paula. “The Pea That Duty Locks: Lesbian and Feminist-Heterosexual Readings of Emily Dickinson’s Poetry” in Jay, Karla & Joanne Glasgow (eds). 1990. Lesbian Texts and Contexts: Radical Revisions. New York University Press, New York. ISBN 0-8147-4177
114. Zimmerman, Bonnie. “’The Dark Eye Beaming’: Female Friendship in George Eliot’s Fictions” in Jay, Karla & Joanne Glasgow (eds). 1990. Lesbian Texts and Contexts: Radical Revisions. New York University Press, New York. ISBN 0-8147-4177
115. Brown, Judith C. 1984. “Lesbian Sexuality in Renaissance Italy: The Case of Sister Benedetta Carlini” in Signs 9 (1984): 751-58. (reprinted in: Freedman, Esteele B., Barbara C. Gelpi, Susan L. Johnson & Kathleen M. Weston. 1985. The Lesbian Issue: Essays from Signs. The University of Chicago Press, Chicago. ISBN 0-2256-26151-4)
116. Newton, Esther. “The Mythic Mannish Lesbian: Radclyffe Hall and the New Woman” in Signs 9 (1984): 557-575. (reprinted in: Freedman, Esteele B., Barbara C. Gelpi, Susan L. Johnson & Kathleen M. Weston. 1985. The Lesbian Issue: Essays from Signs. The University of Chicago Press, Chicago. ISBN 0-2256-26151-4)
117. Lansing, Carol. 2005. “Donna con Donna? A 1295 Inquest into Female Sodomy” in Studies in Medieval and Renaissance History: Sexuality and Culture in Medieval and Renaissance Europe, Third Series vol. II: 109-122.
118. Lyons, Clare A. 2007. “Mapping an Atlantic Sexual Culture: Homoeroticism in Eighteenth-Century Philadelphia” in: Foster, Thomas A. (ed). Long Before Stonewall: Histories of Same-Sex Sexuality in Early America. New York University Press, New York. ISBN 13-978-0-8147-2749-2
119. Ingrassia, Catherine. 2003. “Eliza Haywood, Sapphic Desire, and the Practice of Reading” in: Kittredge, Katharine (ed). Lewd & Notorious: Female Transgression in the Eighteenth Century. The University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor. ISBN 0-472-11090-X
120. Lanser, Susan S. 2003. “Queer to Queer: The Sapphic Body as Transgressive Text” in Kittredge, Katharine (ed.) Lewd & Notorious: Female Transgressions in the Eighteenth Century. The University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor. ISBN 0-472-11090-X
121. Durling, Nancy Vine. 1989. “Rewriting Gender: Yde et Olive and Ovidian Myth” in Romance Languages Annual 1: 256-62.
122. Lardinois, André. “Lesbian Sappho and Sappho of Lesbos” in Bremmer, Jan. 1989. From Sappho to de Sade: Moments in the HIstory of Sexuality. London: Routledge. ISBN 0-415-02089-1
123. Jelinek, Estelle. 1987. “Disguise Autobiographies: ‘Women Masquerading as Men’” in Women’s Studies International Forum, 10, pp.53-62.
124. Dover, K. J. 1978. Greek Homosexuality. Harvard University Press, Cambridge. ISBN 0-674-36261-6
125. Clarke, John R. 1998. Looking at Lovemaking: Constructions of Sexuality in Roman Art 100 B.C.-A.D. 250. University of California Press, Berkeley. ISBN 0-520-20024-1
126. Friedli, Lynne. 1987. “Passing Women: A Study of Gender Boundaries in the Eighteenth Century” in Rousseau, G. S. and Roy Porter (eds). Sexual Underworlds of the Enlightenment. Manchester University Press, Manchester. ISBN 0-8078-1782-1
127. Hobby, Elaine. 1991. “Katherine Philips: Seventeenth-Century Lesbian Poet” in Hobby, Elaine & Chris White (eds). What Lesbians do in Books. Women’s Press, London.
128. Wheelwright, Julie. 1989. Amazons and Military Maids: Women who Dressed as Men in the Pursuit of Life, Liberty, and Happiness. Pandora, London. ISBN 0-04-440494-8
129. Crompton, Louis. 1985. “The Myth of Lesbian Impunity: Capital Laws from 1270 to 1791” in Licata, Salvatore J. & Robert P. Petersen (eds). The Gay Past: A Collection of Historical Essays. Harrington Park Press, New York. ISBN 0-918393-11-6 (Also published as Journal of Homosexuality, Vol. 6, numbers 1/2, Fall/Winter 1980.)
130. Eriksson, Brigitte. 1985. “A Lesbian Execution in Germany, 1721: The Trial Records” in Licata, Salvatore J. & Robert P. Petersen (eds). The Gay Past: A Collection of Historical Essays. Harrington Park Press, New York. ISBN 0-918393-11-6 (Also published as Journal of Homosexuality, Vol. 6, numbers 1/2, Fall/Winter 1980.)
131. Monter, E. William. 1985. “Sodomy and Heresy in Early Modern Switzerland” in Licata, Salvatore J. & Robert P. Petersen (eds). The Gay Past: A Collection of Historical Essays. Harrington Park Press, New York. ISBN 0-918393-11-6 (Also published as Journal of Homosexuality, Vol. 6, numbers 1/2, Fall/Winter 1980.)
132. Jennings, Rebecca. 2007. A Lesbian History of Britain: Love and Sex Between Women Since 1500. Greenwood World Publishing, Oxford. ISBN 978-1-84645-007-5
133. Traub, Valerie. “The Past is a Foreign Country? The Times and Spaces of Islamicate Sexuality Studies” in Babayan, Kathryn and Afsaneh Najmabadi (eds.). 2008. Islamicate Sexualities: Translations Across Temporal Geographies of Desire. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. ISBN 978-0-674-03204-0
134. Amer, Sahar. “Cross-Dressing and Female Same-Sex Marriage in Medieval French and Arabic Literatures” in Babayan, Kathryn and Afsaneh Najmabadi (eds.). 2008. Islamicate Sexualities: Translations Across Temporal Geographies of Desire. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. ISBN 978-0-674-03204-0
135. Epps, Brad. “Comparison, Competition, and Cross-Dressing: Cross-Cultural Analysis in a Contested World” in Babayan, Kathryn and Afsaneh Najmabadi (eds.). 2008. Islamicate Sexualities: Translations Across Temporal Geographies of Desire. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. ISBN 978-0-674-03204-0
136. Babayan, Kathryn. “’In Spirit We Ate Each Other’s Sorrow’ Female Companionship in Seventeenth-Century Safavi Iran” in Babayan, Kathryn and Afsaneh Najmabadi (eds.). 2008. Islamicate Sexualities: Translations Across Temporal Geographies of Desire. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. ISBN 978-0-674-03204-0
137. Faderman, Lillian. 1981. Surpassing the Love of Men. William Morrow and Company, Inc., New York. ISBN 0-688-00396-6
LHMP Podcast #1: Ordinary Women (2016/08/26)
LHMP Podcast #2: Same-Sex Marriage in Restoration England (2016/09/24)
Special Lesbian Talkshow Podcast with Suzie Carr: The Masks We Wear (2016/10/27)
Special Halloween LHMP Podcase: The Goblin Market by Christina Rossetti (2016/10/29)
LHMP Podcast #3: "Bosom Sex" in 19th Century America
Queer Fantasy Roots Column at Queer Sci Fi #4: The Changing Role of Amazons (2016/11/15)
Random Research
Gardening and Cooking (does not include minor garden-progress posts)
Three Fantasy Gardens (2016/03/31) - A prompted essay.
Sex in the Garden (2016/06/16) - Manual pollination of squashes, what did you think it was about?
Reviews: Movies - Lesbian (Link is to the overall index page for my lesbian movie reviews)
Portrait of a Marriage (2016/03/11)
The Secret Diaries of Miss Anne Lister (2016/04/15)
Lost and Delirious (2016/04/22)
Imagine Me and You (2016/10/28)
Reviews: Movies - Other
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
Reviews: Books
Allegiance by Beth Bernobich (2016/01/15)
Bryony and Roses by T. Kingfisher (2016/02/12)
A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett (Extended series of posts)
Letters to Tiptree (ed. Alisa Krasnostein and Alexandra Pierce) (2016/02/19)
Four Lesbian Historic Romances of the 1980s (2016/03/03)
Vermillion by Molly Tanzer (2016/03/04)
Black Wolves by Kate Elliott (2016/04/29)
The Raven and the Reindeer by T. Kingfisher (2016/05/06)
Through the Hourglass ed. by Sacchi Green and Patty G. Henderson (2016/06/03)
Graveyard Sparrow by Kayla Bashe (2016/06/10)
Gentleman Jole and the Red Queen by Lois McMaster Bujold (2016/06/24)
Uprooted by Naomi Novik (2016/07/15)
Masks and Shadows by Stephanie Burgis (2016/07/22)
Goddess by Kelly Gardiner (2016/08/12)
The Emperor's Agent by Jo Graham (2016/09/02)
Everfair by Nisi Shawl (2016/10/21)
The Sisterhood by Penelope Friday (2016/11/18)
Reviews: Graphic Stories
The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage by Sydney Padua (2016/01/22)
Reviews: Audio Fiction
Tremontaine by (multiple authors) (2016/02/05)
The Little Dog Ohori by Anatoly Belilovsky (2016/03/18)
Podcastle.org (2016/04/01) - Episodes 402-408
The Husband Stitch by Carmen Maria Machado (Podcastle.org Episode 409) (2016/04/08)
Podcastle.org (2016/07/08) - Episodes 410-421
The Dark Wife by Sarah Diemer (2016/09/24)
Podcastle.or (2016/09/30) - Episodes 422-434
Reviews: Live Theater
Mary Page Marlowe (2016/05/20)
Much Ado About Nothing (Shakespeare) (2016/06/17)
Fences (August Wilson) (2016/08/05)
You Never Can Tell (George Bernard Shaw) (2016/09/09)