I'm always delighted to get my eyeballs on material from outside western Europe and Anglophone cultures. This article is particularly interesting for letting us into the everyday details of language and domestic arrangements around female couples. One does, however, need to filter out the judgmental commentary, even though it's milder than what we might see in western European sources.
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Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 168 (previously 48d) - Humors, Horoscopes, and Homosexuality - transcript
(Originally aired 2020/07/25 - listen here)
Humors, Horoscopes, and Homosexuality.
I should probably set up a topic-tag for the LHMP for books that are intended either as textbooks or general reference works (e.g., encyclopedia-type texts) because I'm starting to get a number of them and it seems like a category that people might find useful. Not sure how to handle that, because it doesn't really fit with the types of tags I already have set up. But, hey, I can just add it to the "topics" list and sort it out later if I decide to do it differently.
Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 167 (previously 48c) - Book Appreciation with Luci Dreamer
(Originally aired 2020/07/11 - listen here)
[Note added 2023/03/28: Luci Dreamer now goes by Luc and pronouns are now he/him.]
Transcript pending.
Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 166 (previously 48b) - Interview with Luci Dreamer
(Originally aired 2020/07/11 - listen here)
[Note added 2023/03/28: Luci Dreamer now goes by Luc and pronouns are now he/him.]
Transcript pending.
Consider today's entry as a teaser for this month's podcast essay, entitled "Humors, Horoscopes, and Homosexuality." I'm always happy to sieze on convenient inspiration.
I got behind a bit, which is why this is going up Tuesday evening rather than Monday morning. Strange and terrifying as it may seem, that enormous bolus of journal articles I downloaded and had all written up in advance is almost at an end. I guess that means I need to find my reading brain again. This book was not a good candidate for finding my brain again. It wasn't new material (for me) and was structurally very difficult to summarize. That doesn't mean it isn't a useful book. It just wasn't fun to blog.
Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 165 (previously 48a) - On the Shelf for July 2020 - Transcript
(Originally aired 2020/07/04 - listen here)
Welcome to On the Shelf for July 2020.
How are you all holding up through the quarantimes? Are you finding enough fluffy comfort reads to get you through? Or are you surviving on unleashed rage alone...against all the shitty things going down in the world?
The year is half past and it's not too early to start thinking about next year's fiction series. The call for submissions is essentially identical to the one for this year's series. You are encouraged to publicize this Call widely. My goal is to have so many excellent submissions that it breaks my heart that I can only pick four.
Full details on the Call for Submissions can be found here (and will be prominent on the drop-down menu for the duration).
This collection was not particularly fruitful in terms of LHMP content, with barely two articles speaking to the topic of women's same-sex desire. This is, alas, all too common in general collections, as well as all too common under the umbrella of Queer Studies. This tendency creates what I have come to call the "Little Red Hen Problem." You know the story about the little red hen?
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