Anne Bonny, Mary Read, and the Invention of Lesbian Pirates The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 338 with Heather Rose Jones

In this episode we talk about:

  • Female pirates
  • Anne Bonny and Mary Read in the General History of the Pyrates
  • The motif of “lesbian Bonny & Read”
  • Bonny and Read in lesbian historical fiction
  • Sources mentioned
  • This topic is discussed in one or more entries of the Lesbian Historic Motif Project here:
  • Works mentioned by Helen Rodriguez:
    • The History and Lives of Notorious Pirates (1735)
    • The Extraordinary Adventures and Daring Exploits of Captain Henry Morgan (1813)
    • The Naval History of the United States by Willis J. Abbott (1896)
    • The Buccaneers and their Reign of Terror by C.M. Stevens (1899)
    • The Homosexuality of Men and Women by Magnus Hirschfield (1920)
    • ”Anne Bonny & Mary Read: They Killed Pricks” by Susan Baker in The Furies: Lesbian/Feminist Monthly Vol. 1, issue 6 (August 1972)
    • Mistress of the Seas (novel) by John Carlova (1964)
    • Forgotten Women ed. By Nancy M[???] (couldn’t identify this book)
    • The Women Pirates (play) by Steve Gooch (
    • Mary Read, Buccaneer (novel) by Philip Rush (1945)
    • Beneath the Black Flag by David Cordingly
    • Kingston by Starlight (novel) by Christopher John Farley
    • Black Sails (tv series)
    • Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag (video game)
    • The Pirates of Neverland (video game)
    • Our Flag Means Death (tv series)
    • Hellcats (podcast fiction)

A transcript of this podcast is available here.

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