Episodes

  • Frieda Belinfante
    Oct 5 2023

    Today's episode is on the Dutch cellist, conductor, and WWII resistance fighter Frieda Belinfante. Join us to hear about Frieda's groundbreaking career as a female conductor, the many women who fell in love with her, and how to forge a 1940s Dutch ID card in excruciating detail.   

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    [Image: Frieda dressed in a men's jacket and tie with a masculine haircut, smoking a cigarette and looking directly at the camera.] 

     

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    1 hr and 32 mins
  • Franz Nopcsa
    Sep 14 2023

    Today's episode is on the Hungarian palaeontologist, geologist, spy and ethnographer, Franz Nopcsa. Join us as we discuss dinosaurs, Franz's travels in Albania, and the world's first plane hijacking.

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    [Image: Franz in traditional Albanian dress, 1913]

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    1 hr and 12 mins
  • Queerness in Tabletop Roleplaying Games
    Aug 31 2023

    We're back!

    Today's episode covers depictions of queerness throughout the history of tabletop roleplaying games, including Dungeons & Dragons, Vampire: The Masquerade and many, many more.

    Join us for a discussion spanning nearly 50 years of D&D and TTRPG history, featuring masochistic clerics, gay vampire gangs and lesbian political satirists.

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    [Image: The front cover of the 1983 Dungeons & Dragons Basic Set]

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    54 mins
  • Jane Austen
    Jul 15 2023

    Today's episode is on the English writer Jane Austen. Join us as we discuss whether Jane was queer, on-stage lesbian Mr Darcy, and the evolving queerness of Austen adaptations.

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    [Image: sketch of Jane Austen by her sister Cassandra Austen, c.1810 - source.]

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    1 hr and 7 mins
  • A League of Their Own
    Jun 30 2023

    Today's episode covers the 1940s All American Girls Professional Baseball League, and the 2022 television series based on it, A League of Their Own.

    Join us for a discussion featuring shoes deemed "excessively masculine-looking", perhaps too many women named Dottie, and more "close, life-long friends and roommates" than you can shake a stick at.

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    [Image: A cropped version of the poster for the 2022 TV series A League of Their Own, featuring (left to right, top to bottom) Chante Adams as Maxine Chapman, Abbi Jacobson as Carson Shaw, Gbemisola Ikumelo as Clance Morgan and D'Arcy Carden as Greta Gill].

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    45 mins
  • Interview with Danielle Scrimshaw
    Jun 15 2023

    In today's episode, Irene and Alice interview historian and author Danielle Scrimshaw about her new book, She and her Pretty Friend. She and her Pretty Friend is the first book of its kind, exploring the history of Australia's queer women. We discuss the queer generation gap, how to navigate changes in queer language and identity as a historian, and the experience of doing research in the spaces between recorded histories.

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    [Image: The cover of Danielle's Book, She and her Pretty Friend. It shows two women on a purple background surrounded by native Australian plants.]

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    44 mins
  • Hijra in 19th-century India
    Jun 1 2023

    Today's episode is on Hijra in 19th-century India. Listen to learn about who these 19th-century Hijra were, how they structured their society, and their resistance in the face of British colonial oppression.

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    [Image: A Hijra and her companions in East Bengal, 1860s]

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    1 hr and 20 mins
  • Isadora Duncan
    Apr 15 2023

    Today's episode is on US dancer Isadora Duncan. Listen to find out how she revolutionised dance, what the Singer sewing machine had to do with it, and enjoy some sapphic love poetry.

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    [Image: Isadora Duncan in ancient Greek-inspired clothing - source]

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    1 hr and 38 mins