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On the Shelf for December 2022 The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 245 with Heather Rose Jones

Your monthly roundup of history, news, and the field of sapphic historical fiction.

In this episode we talk about:

• Recent and upcoming publications covered on the blog
  • Altman, Meryl. 2009. “Parthenoi to Watch Out For? Looking at Female Couples in Vase-Painting and Lyric” in CAMWS.
  • Omar, Sara. 2012. “From Semantics to Normative Law: Perceptions of Liwat (Sodomy) and Sihaq (Tribadism) in Islamic Jurisprudence (8th - 15th Century CE)” in Islamic Law and Society 19. pp.222-256
  • Antrim, Zayde. 2020. “Qamarayn: The Erotics of Sameness in the 1001 Nights” in Al-Usur al-Wusta vol. 28. pp.1-44
  • Bosman, Frank G. 2021. “’I Am Not Good at Any of This’ Playing with Homoeroticism in The Arabian Nights” in Religions 12: 480.
• New and forthcoming fiction
  • Julie & Winifred's Most Excellent Adventure by Heather Massey
  • Observations on the Danger of Female Curiosity by Suzanne Moss
  • ”A Defence of Astronomical Curiosity for Ladies” by Suzanne Moss
  • My Life with Rachel: A Tale of Two Women in 1920's New York by Ariel Archer
  • Elsie Sees It Through by Derek Ansell
  • The Fire and the Place in the Forest: Collected Stories and Poems by Jeannelle M. Ferreira
  • A Chaperoned Christmas (Christmas masquerade #3) by Meg Mardell
  • The Captain's Choice: A Sapphic Seas Romance by Wren Taylor
  • Daunting Dilemmas (Wellington Mysteries #3) by Edale Lane
• What I’ve been consuming
  • Longshadow by Olivia Atwater (as audiobook)
  • A Restless Truth by Freya Marske (as audiobook)
  • Even Though I Knew the End by C.L. Polk (as audiobook)
  • The Woman King (movie)
  • Wakanda Forever (movie)
  • Warrior Nun (TV series)
  • Young Royals (TV series)
• Call for submissions for the 2023 LHMP audio short story series. See here for details.
• This month we interview Marianne Ratcliffe about her gothic novel The Secret of Matterdale Hall

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: He