Episodes

Friday Jun 15, 2018
Sofya Parnok
Friday Jun 15, 2018
Friday Jun 15, 2018
Today's episode is about the life of Sofya Parnok, an early 20th century Russian poet who wrote openly about her relationships with women, owned a pet monkey, and died surrounded by her loving girlfriends.

Friday Jun 08, 2018
Willem Arondeus
Friday Jun 08, 2018
Friday Jun 08, 2018
Today's mini-episode is on Dutch World War II resistance fighter Willem Arondeus. Learn about his life as an artist, incredibly brave efforts to combat the Nazi regime and the origins of his famous last words.

Friday Jun 01, 2018
Osh-Tisch
Friday Jun 01, 2018
Friday Jun 01, 2018
Today we have our first episode on an Indigenous American two-spirit person - Crow warrior and craftsperson Osh-Tisch, whose batée gender was not only recognised but respected and supported by their community. Tune in to learn about the Crow understanding of gender, the best poker player in the region, and the Battle of the Rosebud, in which Osh-Tisch fought alongside the female warrior The Other Magpie and earnt the name Finds-Them-And-Kills-Them.

Tuesday May 22, 2018
Sylvia Beach
Tuesday May 22, 2018
Tuesday May 22, 2018
Today's episode is on the publisher and bookseller Sylvia Beach. Learn about the delightful history of her bookshop, Shakespeare and Company, Sylvia's instrumental role in publishing James Joyce's Ulysses, and her fateful meeting with her long term partner Adrienne Monnier.

Tuesday May 15, 2018
Male Sexuality in Ancient Rome
Tuesday May 15, 2018
Tuesday May 15, 2018
Today's episode is on male sexuality in Ancient Rome! Listen on for ancient same sex marriages, dirty Latin poetry, and the wittiest retort you'll hear all week. Also: some weird facts about hyenas!
(Note: the image above is an 1827 sculpture by French artist Jean-Baptiste Roman on the theme of Ancient Roman sexuality. It's not a genuine Roman work.)

Saturday May 12, 2018
Bonus Episode with CAMP Magazine
Saturday May 12, 2018
Saturday May 12, 2018
Today's surprise episode is an ad we produced with CAMP Magazine, the University of Melbourne's newest autonomous publication for queer people. Listen for some new poetry from the unimelb graduate and bisexual labour activist Lesbia Harford!
Listen to our other episodes to learn more about Lesbia Harford, or, as mentioned in this episode, writer Mary Shelley, Moomins-creator Tove Jansson, or queer women in medieval Arab literature.

Tuesday May 08, 2018
Did Queen Victoria believe in lesbians?
Tuesday May 08, 2018
Tuesday May 08, 2018
Unlike sex between men, sex between women was never illegal in Britain. Could it have been because Queen Victoria refused to believe that it could happen? Find out in the second of our mini episodes, exploring myths and shorter stories from queer history.

Tuesday May 01, 2018
Pauli Murray: Part 2
Tuesday May 01, 2018
Tuesday May 01, 2018
Today's episode is our second and final look at the life of the activist, lawyer, priest and poet, Pauli Murray. Learn about his involvement with the landmark women's rights case Reed v. Reed, the mischief he got up to as a self-described "pixie priest", and how his transgender identity has been handled (and mishandled) by scholars.

Sunday Apr 22, 2018
Carmilla (1872)
Sunday Apr 22, 2018
Sunday Apr 22, 2018
Today's episode is the first of Queer as Fiction, a series in which we talk to you about the intersection of the historical and the queer in the media. We'll kick things off with J. Sheridan Le Fanu's 1872 lesbian vampire novella Carmilla, and talk about just how gay it actually is, the pop culture it has influenced and, apparently, 300 years of Anglo-Irish conflict.

Sunday Apr 15, 2018
Pauli Murray: Part 1
Sunday Apr 15, 2018
Sunday Apr 15, 2018
Today's episode is on Pauli Murray, the activist, lawyer, poet and priest who did so much with his life that it's going to take us two episodes to fit it all. In this first half we're covering the period from 1910 to 1965, including Pauli's time at university, and his work as a lawyer and activist fighting segregation and sexism in the USA. We'll be talking about everything from his ground-breaking theories on intersectionality to his cross-country adventures dressed as a boy-scout, and featuring cameos from Eleanor Roosevelt, James Baldwin, and Langston Hughes.