#sapphichistory — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #sapphichistory, aggregated by home.social.
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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 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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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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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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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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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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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!