Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Index of Episodes

The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast is a supplement to the LHMP blog and discusses specific individuals, topics, or publications that I think people might find particularly interesting. While the blog summarizes research relating to various lesbian-like topics of interest to authors and readers, the podcast has a more informal storytelling style. It also gives me a chance to present readings from some of the historic texts that the project covers.

In the podcast's second year, I've expanded to a weekly schedule including other types of material: author interview segments, highlighting some of the writers whose stories include women who love women in historic or historically-inspired settings; book recommendation segments; a monthly review of past and upcoming material along with listener questions; and in months with a fifth weekly show, something special.

In the third year, I added a short audio fiction series, airing in months that have a fifth show.

I am in the process of adding transcripts of many of the episodes. Because my solo episodes are done from scripts, these are the ones I'm concentrating on at the moment. I don't know if I'll have the resources to transcribe the interview episodes. Transcripts will be linked from the index below as they become available.

The podcast series is hosted by The Lesbian Talk Show, a magazine-style podcast with multiple contributors that covers books, authors, and other related subjects. Although these links are to Podbean, you can also subscribe or listen through Stitcher or iTunes. If you like the content, consider leaving a rating or review at your venue of choice.

What are people saying about The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast?

• Lesbian Interest -- a website about lesbian films, webseries, and tv shows gives a shout-out to the shows on Sappho.
• The Guardian says the LHMPodcast is "among three of the best lesbian podcasts"
• I'm always delighted to note when the LHMPodcast gets a shout-out in media, but I have removed the link to the mention of my podcast at AfterEllen as I do not want to associate myself with their exclusionary position or potentially direct clicks to their site.

Episode 1: "Ordinary Women" - posted 2016/08/27 (transcript)

Episode 2: “Same-Sex Marriage in Restoration England” - posted 2016/09/23 (transcript)

Special Episode with Suzie Carr: "The Masks We Wear" - posted 2016/10/27 (no transcript available)

Special Halloween Episode 3: The Goblin Market - posted 2016/10/29 (transcript)

Episode 4: "Bosom Sex" - posted 2016/11/26 (transcript)

Episode 5: "Laudomia Loves Margaret" - posted 2016/12/31 (transcript)

Episode 6: "Catherine Vizzani" - posted 2017/01/28 (transcript)

Episode 7: "Aphra Behn" - posted 2017/02/25 (transcript)

Episode 8: "Medieval Love Poetry" - posted 2017/03/25 (transcript)

Episode 9: "The Travels and Adventures of Mademoiselle de Richelieu" - posted 2017/04/29 (transcript pending)

Episode 10: "Sappho of Lesbos: The Woman and the Legend" - posted 2017/06/03 (transcript)

Episode 11: "Sappho: The Translations" - posted 2017/06/24 (transcript)

Episode 12: "Catalina de Erauso" - posted 2017/07/29 (transcript pending)

In the new weekly schedule, episodes will be numbered for the month, with sequential letters for the week.

August 2017

• Episode 13a: On the Shelf -- What the blog and podcast are doing this month. Ask Sappho: When and where was lesbianism illegal? - posted 2017/08/05 (transcript)
• Episode 13b: Author interview with Catherine Lundoff - posted 2017/08/12 (transcript)
• Episode 13c: Book appreciation with Cathering Lundoff - posted 2017/08/19 (transcript)
• Episode 13d: Beguines, Boston Marriage and Bed Death: Historic Archetypes of Asexual Lesbianism - posted 2017/08/26 (transcript)

September 2017

• Episode 14a: On the Shelf -- What the blog and podcast are doing this month. Ask Sappho: what are some lesbian novels set in the American Civil War? - posted 2017/09/02 (transcript)
• Episode 14b: Author interview with Genevieve Fortin - posted 2017/09/09 (transcript)
• Episode 14c: Book appreciation with Genevieve Fortin - posted 2017/09/16 (transcript)
• Episode 14d: What did medieval lesbians do in bed? The evidence of penitential manuals - posted 2017/09/23 (transcript)
• Episode 14e: Female highwaymen in history, literature, and lesfic - posted 2017/09/30 (transcript)

October 2017

• Episode 15a: On the Shelf -- What the blog and podcast are doing this month. Ask Sappho: How did people feel about female rulers who were rumored to be lesbians? - posted 2017/10/07 (transcript)
• Episode 15b: Author interview with Caren Werlinger - posted 2017/10/14 (transcript)
• Episode 15c: Book appreciation with Caren Werlinger - posted 2017/10/21 (transcript)
• Episode 15d: Female Knights in Shining Armor - posted 2017/10/28 (transcript)

November 2017

• Episode 16a: On the Shelf -- What the blog and podcast are doing this month. Ask Sappho: How did women in history signal to each other that they were Sapphically inclined, especially if they were in marriages to men? Announcement of the call for submissions for future audio fiction episodes. - Posted 2017/11/04 (transcript)
• Episode 16b: Author Interview with Farah Mendlesohn - posted 2017/11/11 (transcript)
• Episode 16c: Book appreciation with Farah Mendlesohn - posted 2017/11/18 (transcript)
• Episode 16d: When did we become lesbians? The historic vocabulary of love between women - posted 2017/11/25 (transcript)

December 2017

• Episode 17a: On the Shelf -- What the blog and podcast are doing this month. Ask Sappho (with guest Lauri Wilson): Were there changes over time in the reception and context of cross-dressing and passing women, and did that affect the motif of women falling in love with a woman disguised as a man? - posted 2017/12/02 (transcript)
• Episode 17b: Author Interview with T.T. Thomas - posted 2017/12/09 (transcript)
• Episode 17c: Book appreciation with T.T. Thomas - posted 2017/12/16 (transcript)
• Episode 17d: Death did not Them Depart - posted 2017/12/23 (transcript)
• Episode 17e: The LHMP Year in Review - posted 2017/12/30 (transcript)

January 2018

• Episode 18a: On the Shelf -- What the blog and podcast are doing this month. Ask Sappho: What are some 19th century novels with secret Sapphic content? - posted 2018/01/06 (transcript)
• Episode 18b: Author Interview with Kathleen Knowles - posted 2018/01/13 (no transcript available)
• Episode 18c: Book appreciation with Kathleen Knowles - posted 2018/01/20 (no transcript available)
• Episode 18d: (Un)Conventional Women (the complex historic relationship between lesbians and convents) - posted 2018/01/27 (transcript)

February 2018

• Episode 19a: On the Shelf -- What the blog and podcast are doing this month. Ask Sappho: Sources for women loving women in non-European contexts - posted 2018/02/03 (transcript)
• Episode 19b: Author interview with Ellen Klages  - posted 2018/02/10 (no transcript available)
• Episode 19c: Book appreciation with Ellen Klages - posted 2018/02/17 (no transcript available)
• Episode 19d: Charlotte Cushman: 19th century lesbian actress and celebrity - posted 2018/02/24 (transcript)

March 2018

• Episode 20a: On the Shelf -- What the blog and podcast are doing this month. Ask Sappho: an interview with Phoebe Legere about her musical "Speed Queen" - posted 2018/03/03 (transcript)
• Episode 20b: Author interview with Elizabeth Bear - posted 2018/03/10 (no transcript available)
• Episode 20c: Book appreciation with Elizabeth Bear - posted 2018/03/17 (no transcript available)
• Episode 20d: Falling in Love with Cross-Dressing Girls - posted 2018/03/24 (transcript)
• Episode 20e: Fiction Special - One Night in Saint-Martin by Catherine Lundoff - posted 2018/03/31(transcript)

April 2018

• Episode 21a: On the Shelf -- What the blog and podcast are doing this month. Ask Sappho: What are some research leads for lesbians in 1920s Chicago? - posted 2018/04/07 (transcript)
• Episode 21b: Author interview with Alyssa Cole - posted 2018/04/14 (no transcript available)
• Episode 21c: Book appreciation with Liz Bourke - posted 2018/04/21 (no transcript available)
• Episode 21d: Diana and Callisto: The Sometimes Problematic Search for Representation - posted 2018/04/28 (transcript)

May 2018

• Episode 22a: On the Shelf -- What the blog and podcast are doing this month. - posted 2018/05/05 (transcript)
• Episode 22b: Author interview with Jeannelle M. Ferreira - posted 2018/05/12 (no transcript available)
• Episode 22c: Book appreciation with Jeannelle M. Ferreira - posted 2018/05/19 (no transcript available)
• Episode 22d: Queer Women's Community Through History - posted 2018/05/26 (transcript)

June 2018

• Episode 23a: On the Shelf -- What the blog and podcast are doing this month. Ask Sappho: When did "coming out" become a thing? - posted 2018/06/02 (transcript)
• Episode 23b: Author interview with Lise MacTague - posted 2018/06/09 (no transcript available)
• Episode 23c: Book appreciation with Lise MacTague - posted 2018/06/16 (no transcript available)
• Episode 23d: The Ladies of Llangollen - posted 2018/06/23 (transcript)
• Episode 23e: Fiction Special - "Inscribed" by V.M. Agab - posted 2018/06/30 (transcript)

In June 2018 I was also a guest on Les Do Books, another Lesbian Talk Show podcast.

• Les Do Books: Heather Rose Jones Shares 5 Books (and Reasons!) that Prove the English Regency is the Perfect Setting for Romances Between Women - Aired June 8, 2018

July 2018

• Episode 24a: On the Shelf -- What the blog and podcast are doing this month. Ask Sappho: Was there anything similar to drag king performers before the 20th century? - posted 2018/07/07 (transcript)
• Episode 24b: Author Inverview with Justine Saracen - posted 2018/07/14 (no transcript available)
• Episode 24c: Book appreciation with Justine Saracen - posted 2018/07/21 (no transcript available)
• Episode 24d: Women and Same-Sex Marriage in Western History - posted 2018/07/28 (transcript)

August 2018

• Episode 25a: On the Shelf -- What the blog and podcast are doing this month. Ask Sappho: Why do I use the word "lesbian" when I talk about people with a wide range of identities? - posted 2018/08/04 (transcript)
• Episode 25b: Author Interview with Vanda - posted 2018/08/11 (no transcript available)
• Episode 25c: Book Appreciation with Darlene Vendegna - posted 2018/08/18 (no transcript available)
• Episode 25d: Poetry about Love Between Women from the 16th and 17th Centuries - posted 2018/08/26 (transcript)

September 2018

• Episode 26a: On the Shelf -- What the blog and podcast are doing this month. Ask Sappho: Tell us about Bilitis - posted 2018/09/01 (transcript)
• Episode 26b: Author Interview with K. Aten - posted 2018/09/08 (no transcript available)
• Episode 26c: Book Appreciation with K. Aten - posted 2018/09/15 (no transcript available)
• Episode 26d: Mary Frith aka Moll Cutpurse - posted 2018/09/22 (transcript)
• Episode 26e: Fiction Special - "Peaceweaver" by Jennifer Nestojko - posted 2018/09/29 (transcript)

October 2018

• Episode 27a: On the Shelf -- What the blog and podcast are doing this month. Ask Sappho: The most outrageous, tropiest, Regency same-sex relationship you ever heard...and it's true. - posted 2018/10/06 (transcript)
• Episode 27b: Reprise of "Sappho of Lesbos: The Woman and the Legend" - posted 2018/10/13 (transcript)
• Episode 27c: Reprise of "Sappho: The Translations" - posted 2018/10/20 (transcript)
• Episode 27d: Woman Plus Woman in Classical Rome - posted 2018/10/27 (transcript)

November 2018

• Episode 28a: On the Shelf -- What the blog and podcast are doing this month  - posted 2018/11/03 (transcript)
• Episode 28b: Author Interview with Elizabeth Tammi - posted 2018/11/10 (no transcript available)
• Episode 28c: Book Appreciation with your host "Reading Outside Your Comfort Zone" - posted 2018/11/17 (transcript)
• Episode 28d: Anne Damer - posted 2018/11/24 (transcript)

December 2018

• Episode 29a: On the Shelf -- What the blog and podcast are doing this month. Ask Sappho: An amusing archaeological find. - posted 2018/12/01 (transcript)
• Episode 29b: Author Interview with Carrie Pack - posted 2018/12/08 (no transcript available)
• Episode 29c: Book Appreciation with Carrie Pack - posted 2018/12/15 (no transcript available)
• Episode 29d: Queen Anne of England - posted 2018/12/22 (transcript)
• Episode 29e: Fiction Special - "At the Mouth" by Gurmika Mann - posted 2018/12/29 (transcript)

January 2019

• Episode 30a: On the Shelf -- Cross-time, Time-slip, and Time Travel Stories  - posted 2019/01/05 (transcript)
• Episode 30b: The State of Lesbian Historicals in 2018 - posted 2019/01/12 (transcript)
• Episode 30c: Movie Review of "The Favourite" - with Farah Mendlesohn and Trystan Bass - posted 2019/01/19 (partial transcript available)
• Episode 30d: Delariviere Manley's The New Atalantis - posted 2019/01/26 (transcript)

February 2019

• Episode 31a: On the Shelf - posted 2019/02/02 (transcript)
• Episode 31b: 10 Lesbian Historical Books and Movies I Loved in 2018 - posted 2019/02/09 (transcript)
• Episode 31c: Ordinary Women (Reprise) - posted 2019/02/16 (transcript)
• Episode 31d: Prepositions, Sexuality, and Gender: Unpacking Our Bundles - posted 2019/02/23 (transcript)

March 2019

• Episode 32a: On the Shelf - posted 2019/03/02 (transcript)
• Episode 32b: Interview with Katharine Duckett - posted 2019/03/09 (transcript pending)
• Episode 32c: Book Appreciation with Katharine Duckett - posted 2019/03/16 (transcript pending)
• Episode 32d: Reprise "Laudomia Loves Margaret" - posted 2019/03/23 (transcript)
• Episode 32e: 2019 Fiction Series: "Alphabet of Signs" and "Jade Generals" by Ursula Whitcher - posted 2019/03/30 (transcript)

April 2019

• Episode 33a: Special 100th Episode Surprise! Bonus Audio fiction "Where My Heart Goes" by Heather Rose Jones - posted 2019/04/06 (transcript)
• Episode 33b: On the Shelf - posted 2019/04/13 (transcript)
• Episode 33c: Interview with Zen Cho - posted 2019/04/20 (transcript pending)
• Episode 33d: Policing Gender and Sexuality in Early Modern Europe - posted 2019/04/27 (transcript)

May 2019

• Episode 34a: On the Shelf - posted 2019/05/04 (transcript)
• Episode 34b: Interview with Molly Tanzer - posted 2019/05/11 (transcript pending)
• Episode 34c: Historic Lesbians on the Screen: What We Love - posted 2019/05/18 (transcript)
• Episode 34d: Catherine Vizzani (reprise) - posted 2019/05/25 (transcript)

June 2019

• Episode 35a: On the Shelf - posted 2019/06/01 (transcript)
• Episode 35b: Book Appreciation with Anna Clutterbuck-Cook (Part 1) - posted 2019/06/08 (transcript pending)
• Episode 35c: Book Appreciation with Anna Clutterbuck-Cook (Part 2) - posted 2019/06/15 (transcript pending)
• Episode 35d: Emily Dickinson Goes to the Movies - posted 2019/06/22 (partial transcript)
• Episode 35e: Fiction - "By Her Pen She Conquers" by Catherine Lundoff - posted 2019/06/29 (transcript)

July 2019

• Episode 36a: On the Shelf - posted 2019/07/06 (transcript)
• Episode 36b: Interview with K.J. Charles - posted 2019/07/13 (transcript pending)
• Episode 36c: Book Appreciation with K.J. Charles - posted 2019/07/20 (transcript pending)
• Episode 36d: Swinging Singles and Lesbian Opportunities - posted 2019/07/27 (transcript)

August 2019

• Episode 37a: On the Shelf - posted 2019/08/03 (transcript)
• Episode 37b: Interview with Penny Mickelbury - posted 2019/08/10 (transcript pending)
• Episode 37c: Reprise "Bosom Sex" - posted 2019/08/17 (transcript)
• Episode 37d: Postcards from Worldcon - posted 2019/08/24 (transcript)
• Episode 37e: Fiction - "The Black Handkerchief" by Gwen C. Katz - posted 2019/08/31 (transcript)

September 2019

• Episode 38a: On the Shelf - posted 2019/09/07 (transcript)
• Episode 38b: Interview with Olivia Waite - posted 2019/09/14 (transcript pending)
• Episode 38c: Book Appreciation with Olivia Waite - posted 2019/09/21 (transcript pending)
• Episode 38d: How to Be a Feminist in History - posted 2019/09/28 (transcript)

October 2019

• Episode 39a: On the Shelf - posted 2019/10/05 (transcript)
• Episode 39b: Medieval Love Poetry (Reprise) - posted 2019/10/12 (transcript)
• Episode 39c: Poetry about Love Between Women from the 16th and 17th Centuries (Reprise) - posted 2019/10/19 (transcript)
• Episode 39d: The Goblin Market (Reprise) - posted 2019/10/26 (transcript)

November 2019

• Episode 40a: On the Shelf - posted 2019/11/02 (transcript)
• Episode 40b: Interview with Heather Rose Jones - posted 2019/11/09 (transcript pending)
• Episode 40c: Book Appreciation with Heather Rose Jones - posted 2019/11/16 (transcript pending)
• Episode 40d: Class and Models of Lesbian Desire - posted 2019/11/23 (transcript)
• Episode 40e: Fiction - "The Mermaid" by Kathleen Jowitt - posted 2019/11/30 (transcript)

December 2019

• Episode 41a: On the Shelf - posted 2019/12/07 (transcript)
• Episode 41b: The Highwaywoman Special (reprise) - posted 2019/12/14 (transcript)
• Episode 41c: Things I Loved in 2019 - posted 2019/12/21 (transcript)
• Episode 41d: Lesbian Vikings! - posted 2019/12/28 (transcript)

January 2020

• Episode 42a: On the Shelf - posted 2020/01/04 (transcript)
• Episode 42b: Interview with Kate Heartfield - posted 2020/01/11 (transcript pending)
• Episode 42c: Book Appreciation with Kate Heartfield - posted 2020/01/18 (transcript pending)
• Episode 42d: Iphis and Ianthe - posted 2020/01/25 (transcript)

February 2020

• Episode 43a: On the Shelf - posted 2020/02/01 (transcript)
• Episode 43b: Interview with Stephanie Burgis - posted 2020/02/08 (transcript pending)
• Episode 43c: Book Appreciation with Stephanie Burgis - posted 2020/02/15 (transcript pending)
• Episode 43d: The Evolution of "Butch" as a Lesbian Signifier - posted 2020/02/22 (transcript)
• Episode 43e: Fiction - Talking to Ghosts by Caitlin Flavell - posted 2020/02/29 (transcript)

March 2020

• Episode 44a: On the Shelf - posted 2020/03/07 (transcript)
• Episode 44b: Interview with Catherine Lundoff (Queen of Swords Press) - posted 2020/03/14 (transcript pending)
• Episode 44c: Movie Review Portrait of a Lady on Fire - posted 2020/03/21 (transcript)
• Episode 44d: Bertolina Guercia - posted 2020/03/28 (transcript)

April 2020

• Episode 45a: On the Shelf - posted 2020/04/04 (transcript)
• Episode 45b: Interview with Edale Lane - posted 2020/04/11 (transcript pending)
• Episode 45c: Book Appreciation Tara Scott - posted 2020/04/18 (transcript pending)
• Episode 45d: The (Sex) Lives of Fair and Gallant Women - posted 2020/04/25 (transcript)

May 2020

• Episode 46a: On the Shelf - posted 2020/05/02 (transcript)
• Episode 46b: Interview with Janet Todd - posted 2020/05/09 (transcript pending)
• Episode 46c: History Chat with Janet Todd - posted 2020/05/16 (transcript pending)
• Episode 46d: Aphra Behn (reprise) - posted 2020/05/23 (transcript)
• Episode 46e: Fiction - Cardinal's Gambit by Catherine Lundoff - posted 2020/05/30 (transcript)

June 2020

• Episode 47a: On the Shelf - posted 2020/06/06 (transcript)
• Episode 47b: Interview with Amy Hoff - posted 2020/06/13 (transcript pending)
• Episode 47c: Book Appreciation: Black Authors/Black Characters - posted 2020/06/20 (transcript)
• Episode 47d: Lesbian-Like History and Racial Othering - posted 2020/06/27 (transcript)

July 2020

• Episode 48a: On the Shelf - posted 2020/07/04 (transcript)
• Episode 48b: Interview with Luci Dreamer - posted 2020/07/11 (transcript pending)
• Episode 48c: Book Appreciation with Luci Dreamer - posted 2020/07/18 (transcript pending)
• Episode 48d: Humors, Horoscopes, and Homosexuals - posted 2020/07/25 (transcript)

August 2020