#lesbianhistory — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #lesbianhistory, aggregated by home.social.
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#TimeTravelAuthors 06/28 Balance
#TimeTravelingGhost Part 14Fallen Angel
Josephine’s act ended, and Ghost sat there, stunned. More than the godlike dancing, it was the joy on Mademoiselle Baker’s face—mischievous, radiant, pure puckish abandon—that stayed with Ghost.
“Would you like to meet the goddess in person?” Countess’s voice broke the spell.
A juggler had taken the stage, balancing a plate on their nose while juggling three balls. The shift was as jarring as vaudeville following Shakespeare at the Globe. Ghost nodded, still too dazzled to trust her voice.
Countess drained her Champagne and snubbed her cigarette in the empty glass, where it briefly sizzled. “Shall we go?” she said softly. The veil had fallen again; red gems sparkled where once were crimson lips and pale skin.
She threaded unsteadily through the tables where tipsy revelers sat, pieces of costume strewn around them. Tinsel clung to her like cosmic threads, a fallen star personified, cast down but radiant still. Voices called out her name: La Comtesse de Pougy, La Duchesse de Gramont, even Madame la Comtesse. She nodded to each with gracious indifference, letting every title stand.
“Who was this woman?” Ghost wondered. The veil was only the beginning—a symbol of an identity woven from shadow. Not even her familiars agreed on her name. The dark hints she dropped made her think perhaps she was someone even older and more sinister than any of them realized. Or perhaps they ignored her subtle hints.
“Madame la Comtesse,” the stage doorman greeted us. “Here to see Mademoiselle Baker? This way, she is expecting you.”
“How are the kids, Louis?” Countess’s voice shifted; no trace of Hungarian remained. It rang with the false warmth of a politician: hearty, too familiar.
“Well, Madame. They were grateful for the gifts.”
“Good. Here is the door we can see ourselves in. Tell the wife I say hi.”
The man hurried back to his station, a smile on his face.
The Countess looked after him, and then in her Hungarian-heavy French asked me, “Do you hate kids too?”
She lit one of her black cigarettes, waiting for an answer that never came, and finally added, “Loathsome creatures. On God’s great balance wheel, less than rats.”
Liane de Pougy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liane_de_Pougy
Élisabeth de Gramont: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89lisabeth_de_Gramont#MicroFiction #NMPrompts #NMTTA #JosephineBaker #CountessElizabethBáthory #Roaring20s #Lesbian #Sapphic
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In the second part of our 3 part episode on groundbreaking pioneer #sexologist #MagnusHirschfeld, we talk about his influence on German #genderidentity and #sexualpolitics up through World War One and his instrumental influence on #WeimarEra culture! Cabaret Clothes! Divine Decadence! #GenderEuphoria! Hurrah!
listen where you get your podcasts!
#WeimarBerlin #BerlinCabaret #1920sCabaret #1920s #lesbians #lesbianhistory #gays #gayhistory #bi #trans #transhistory #nonbinary #Berlin
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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.
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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.
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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
#LGBTQHistory #LesbianHistory #SapphicHistory #LesbianHistoricMotifProject
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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#LesbianHistoricMotifProject #LesbianHistory #LesbianFiction #SapphicHistory #SapphicFiction
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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#LesbianHistoricMotifProject #LesbianHistory #LesbianFiction #SapphicHistory #SapphicFiction
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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#LesbianHistoricMotifProject #LesbianHistory #SapphicHistory
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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
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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.
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Given the scarcity of formal records focused on women in the middle ages, the occasional reference to lesbian relations is valuable. At the same time, it can be incredibly hard to put in context. Is this case typical? Or unique?
https://alpennia.com/blog/rare-and-ambiguous-15th-c-french-legal-case
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The #LesbianHistoricMotifProject: Caroline Derry's book on Lesbianism and the Criminal Law moves on into the 20th century with a bill against "gross indecency between females" that was considered too scandalous to pass.
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The #LesbianHistoricMotifProject looks at chapter 3 of Derry's book on lesbianism and the law in England, in which a case involving a non-consensual medical exam is used to establish an age of consent for f/f sex.
https://alpennia.com/blog/peculiar-way-acknowledging-ff-sexual-possibility
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The #LesbianHistoricMotifProject looks at chapter 2 of Derry's work on lesbianism and the law in England. Why were "female husbands" the primary focus of courts when addressing lesbianism?
https://alpennia.com/blog/legal-context-female-husbands-england
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The November "On the Shelf" episode of the #LesbianHistoricMotifProject Podcast brings you listings of new lesbian and sapphic historicals, plus a survey of books set in the '20s ... the 1920s, that is!
https://alpennia.com/blog/lesbian-historic-motif-podcast-episode-299-shelf-november-2024
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I'm doing some reading in preparation for a Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast episode on "lesbians and the law" and how could I resist Caroline Derry's meticulous study of legal attitudes toward lesbianism (and associated social phenomena) in England?
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Frieda Belinfante (1904-1995) was an openly homosexual Dutch cellist & conductor of Jewish descent. During the War, Belinfante joined the same resistance movement as Willem Arondeus and other Dutch homosexuals & artists specializing in forging false identity papers & helping those wanted by the Gestapo into hiding. Belinfonte aided in organizing the 1943 bombiing of the Population Registry in Amsterdam. After the perpetrators were turned in by an unknown informant Belinfante fled Holland, dressed as a man, through Belgium & France to Switzerland. Once the war ended she was able to continue her musical career.
#friedabelinfante #musician #resistance #resistancefighter #rememberlegends #butiwasagirl #freedomfighter #cellist #conductor #dutchresistance #dutchmusician #jewishdescent #gayhistory #jewishhistory #wwii #worldwarii #history #lesbian #lesbianhistory #holocaust #holocaustsurvivor
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The #LesbianHistoricMotifProject Podcast looks at "Our F/Favorite Tropes" with the second part of our "theater and actresses" episode, on the historic connection between actresses and transgressive sexuality.
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Book Review #44 is Lilian Faderman's Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers: A History of Lesbian Life in Twentieth Century America. This is a very detailed look at female relationships over the course of nearly 100 years. And again, I found Faderman's work helpful in understanding their story, too. ☕☕☕☕
@bookstodon @books #americanhistory #lesbianhistory #books #bookstodon #lgbtq
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started a #wikipedia article on social worker, therapist, activist, Bernice Goodman (1927-2003): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernice_Goodman @wikiwomeninred @wikilovespride #LGBTQ #AudreLorde #AdrienneRich #socialwork #LesbianHistory
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New #LesbianHistoricMotifProject Podcast episode: "All the Historic Lesbianisms" -- returning to my theme of "models of lesbianism as constantly shifting bundles of variable features."
https://alpennia.com/blog/lesbian-historic-motif-podcast-episode-287-all-historic-lesbianisms
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Because I'm nice, here are a few more shots of Kathleen de vere Taylor looking dashing. From the Heteroxy scrapbook in the Inez Haynes Irwin collection at the Schlesinger Library. #lesbianhistory #LGBTQ #queerhistory #heterodoxy
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New Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast episode: Poetry about Love between Women in the 19th Century. Concluding our poetry series, with poems about love, sex, longing, loss, and admiration for fellow poets.
#LesbianHistoricMotifProject #LesbianHistory #SapphicHistory #Poetry
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Current Amazon fantasy stories assume a strong association with sapphic relationships, but was that the case for classical and medieval depictions of Amazons? The #LesbianHistoricMotifProject Podcast examines the question.
https://alpennia.com/blog/lesbian-historic-motif-podcast-episode-282-amazons
#LesbianHistory #SapphicHistory #LesbianFiction #SapphicFiction #Amazons
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The #LesbianHistoricMotifProject Podcast's "Our F/Favorite Tropes" series mostly looks at differences in how tropes play out for f/f vs m/f couples. But this time we look at a trope unique to f/f historic romance: the Bluestocking & the Amazon.
#LesbianHistory #SapphicHistory #LesbianFiction #SapphicFiction
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This week, the #LesbianHistoricMotifProject Podcast tackles the history of lesbians and ... ah ... ahem ... um ... sex toys.
https://alpennia.com/blog/lesbian-historic-motif-podcast-episode-278-dildo-episode
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Today the #LesbianHistoricMotifProject blogs about Liza Blake's 2011 article “Dildos and Accessories: The Functions of Early Modern Strap-Ons.” If that sounds intriguing, I read it in preparation for next week's podcast!
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Je ne sais toujours pas bien si c'est pertinent de poster ici ces infos univ, mais avis aux amateurs de #lectures, #littérature #lesbienne et #queer et tentons #LesbianHistory
Prochaine séance du #seminaire "La littérature à l'oblique" le 26 janvier à Paris, 18-20h: Frontières et littératures lesbiennes
On entendra Camille Back et Marie-Agnès Palaisi, à propos textes et la pensée de la poète et théoricienne chicana Gloria Anzaldúa au prisme de l’espace frontière
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51 years ago, #OnThisDay in 1972, the National Coalition of Gay Organizations held a Gay Pride rally at Lafayette Park in Washington D.C. This event marked an important moment in the modern LGBTQ rights movement, helping to solidify the community's visibility and strength in fighting for their rights.
#LGBTQIA #LGBTQ #LGBTQ #Pride #GayHistory #BiHistory #LesbianHistory #QueerHistory #TransHistory
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51 years ago, #OnThisDay in 1972, the Gay Activists Alliance and Gay Liberation Party demonstrated at the Statue of Liberty. I was not able to find more details on the purpose of the demonstration (yet), but the FBI and National Park Service surveilled it leaving this fragment of information to follow.
#LGBTQIA #LGBTQ #LGBTQHistory #GayHistory #LesbianHistory #BiHistory #QueerHistory #OTD
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69 years ago, #OnThisDay in 1954, the FBI considered paying to attend a Mattachine convention after their informant declined over the expenses. Under J. Edgar Hoover, the FBI was intensely involved in surveilling LGBTQ groups and organizations, an extension of the fear and paranoia that existed in this period known as the Lavender Scare.
#LGBTQIA #LGBTQ #GayHistory #BiHistory #LesbianHistory #QueerHistory #OTD
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69 years ago, #OnThisDay in 1954, Senator Wiley of Wisconsin reported the public sales and use of the postal service by "One" magazine, a gay publication, to the FBI. Obscenity laws at the time were used against LGBTQ publishers, prohibiting them from using the service for their media. Over the next decade, publishers would fight these laws in courts which would overturn many of these restrictions.
#LGBTQIA #LGBTQ #LGBTQHistory #GayHistory #QueerHistory #BiHistory #LesbianHistory #OTD
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33 years ago, #OnThisDay in 1990, President George H.W. Bush signed into law the Hate Crime Statistics Act which requires the Attorney General to collect data on hate crimes. This law was the first in U.S. history to explicitly name lesbian, gay, and bisexual identities.
#LGBTQIA #LGBTQ #LesbianHistory #GayHistory #BiHistory #QueerHistory #OTD
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94 years ago, #OnThisDay in 1929, a U.S. court declared Radcliffe Hall's novel "The Well of Loneliness" not to be obscene. There were numerous attempts by censorship organizations to suppress its publication. The novel, which featured lesbian themes. Historical artifacts like this show victories even in the past as we face an ongoing need to combat censorship and promote free expression for marginalized voices today. #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #LGBTQHistory #LesbianHistory #GayHistory #BiHistory #OTD
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51 years ago, #OnThisDay in 1972, members of the Gay Activists Alliance (GAA) disrupted a ballroom event at a hotel to protest against the handling of LGBTQ stories by the media. During the third intermission, a group of approximately 25 individuals identified themselves as members of the GAA, invaded the ballroom, and began distributing fliers; one member even attempted to take the event mic.
#LGBTQIA #LGBTQ #LGBTQHistory #GayHistory #LesbianHistory #BiHistory #Queerstory #QueerHistory
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76 years ago, #OnThisDay in 1947, newspapers began publishing clarifications on "blue discharges," a practice that denied GI benefits for veterans, sometimes on discriminatory grounds. Thousands of LGBTQ individuals were given blue discharges, which Congress recognized as a bar to benefits. Let's remember and honor the sacrifices made by LGBTQ+ veterans, and continue to fight for justice and equality for all.
#LGBTQHistory #GayHistory #LesbianHistory #BiHistory #QueerHistory #Queerstory #OTD
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Mariana Lawton's second visit to the Ladies of Llangollen took place on June 15th, 1817. The visit lasted until June 23rd.
My mapping of #AnneLister, her travels and the company she kept continues 🤓
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Upcoming Call for Submissions: Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast
It's that time of year when I start pre-panicking about getting submissions for the LHMP fiction series. We'll be open to short story submissions in January. Expect regular postings. Please boost.
https://alpennia.com/lhmp/essays/call-submissions-2024-lesbian-historic-motif-podcast-fiction-series
#LesbianFiction #SapphicFiction #LesbianHistoricMotifProject #LesbianHistory #SapphicHistory
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When the #LesbianHistoricMotifProject Podcast airs an episode examining Early Modern European images of lesbianism in the Ottoman Empire, what else to title it but "Turkish Delights"?
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Satanic Panic in the 18th Century! The #LesbianHistoricMotifProject finishes our series on texts that connect lesbianism with Ottoman Turkey with excerpts from Satan's Harvest Home, an amusing little treatise that can't decide if it's moralism or pornography.
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The #LesbianHistoricMotifProject's series on European perceptions of lesbianism in Ottoman Turkey shifts gears to look at pop culture texts that reference this assumed connection in order to displace lesbianism onto the Other, even when asserting its presence at home.
https://alpennia.com/blog/turkish-lesbians-become-standard-trope
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The #LesbianHistoricMotifProject presents the last of our "eyewitness" accounts of Early Modern European travelers to the Ottoman Empire. This time we get a woman's observations.
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French gem merchant Jean-Baptiste Tavernier is the next author who tells stories about lesbianism in Ottoman society. But he also raises our suspicions about the originality of his information. The #LesbianHistoricMotifProject continues our Ottoman Empire series.
https://alpennia.com/blog/recycled-ottoman-content-or-persistant-motifs
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To complete the series on European accounts of lesbianism in the Ottoman Empire, I'll be posting a new source every day this week, leading up to a podcast on the topic. Today's account is from Thomas Glover, an Englishman born and raised in Constantinople.
https://alpennia.com/blog/ottoman-society-thomas-glovers-guide-visitor
#LesbianHistoricMotifProject #LesbianHistory #SapphicHistory
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New entry in the series "early modern European men describe lesbian goings on in the Ottoman Empire." This time we have Venetian ambassador Ottaviano Bon.
#LesbianHistoricMotifProject #LesbianHistory #SapphicHistory
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The second entry in the #LesbianHistoricMotifProject's series on "Early Modern European men report on lesbian desire in the Ottoman Empire."
