On the Shelf for March 2021
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 196 with Heather Rose Jones
Your monthly roundup of history, news, and the field of sapphic historical fiction.
In this episode we talk about:
The topics that historical fiction flinches away from
Stories picked for the 2021 Fiction Series
Recent and upcoming publications covered on the blogChoquette, Leslie. 2001. “’Homosexuals in the City: Representations of Lesbian and Gay Space in Nineteenth-Century Paris” in Merrick, Jeffrey & Michael Sibalis, eds. Homosexuality in French History and Culture. Harrington Park Press, New York. ISBN 1-56023-263-3
Vicinus, Martha. 1992. "'They Wonder to Which Sex I Belong': The Historical Roots of the Modern Lesbian Identity" in Feminist Studies vol. 18, no. 3 467-497.
Binhammer, Katherine. 2002. "Thinking Gender with Sexuality in 1790s' Feminist Thought" in Feminist Studies vol 28, no 3. pp. 667-690.
Boyd, Nan Alamilla. 2013. "The History of the Idea of the Lesbian as a Kind of Person" in Feminist Studies vol. 39, no. 2 362-365.
Interview with Mari Ness about Madame de Murat and the salon fairy talesResistance and Transformation: On Fairy Tales by Mari Ness (Aqueduct Press)
New and forthcoming fictionA Call to Justice (series #3) by S.W. Andersen
The Wife in the Attic by Rose Lerner
Fishwives by Sally Bellerose
Flying High by G.B. Baldassari
”Bump in the Night” by Lara Kinsey
The Railwalkers by Ruth Hanson
The Ledge Light: New London by Diana Perkins
Eleutheria: Chronique des Amazones by Helena Manenti
Girls in Black (Ranger Paraversum Book 2) by Vesna Kurilic
Interview with Aliette de BodardThe inspirations for using a pre-colonial fantasy-Vietnam as a setting
Themes of colonization and apocalypse
Future plans for space pirates inspired by Ching Shih and other pirates of the south China SeaFireheart Tiger by Aliette de Bodard
In the Vanishers’ Palace by Aliette de Bodard
Dominion of the Fallen series by Aliette de Bodard
Xuya Universe series by Aliette de Bodard
Recommended work: Unconquerable Sun by Kate Elliott (gender-bent Alexander the Great in space with sapphic subplot)
Recommended work: When the Tiger Came Down the Mountain by Nghi Vo (historic fantasy with f/f tiger-human romance)
A transcript of this podcast is available here. (Interview transcripts added when available.)
Links to the Lesbian Historic Motif Project Online
Website: http://alpennia.com/lhmp
Blog: http://alpennia.com/blog
RSS: http://alpennia.com/blog/feed/
Twitter: @LesbianMotif
Discord: Contact Heather for an invitation to the Alpennia/LHMP Discord server
The Lesbian Historic Motif Project Patreon
Links to Heather Online
Website: http://alpennia.com
Email: Heather Rose Jones
Twitter: @heatherosejones
Facebook: Heather Rose Jones (author page)
Links to Aliette de Bodard Online
Website: AlietteDeBodard.com
Twitter: @aliettedb
Patreon: Aliette de Bodard
Links to Mari Ness Online
Website: Blogging with Dragons
Essays: Mari’s essays at Tor.com
Twitter: @mari_ness
Patreon: Mari Ness
