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The Pop Culture Background of Cross-Dressing Sailors

Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Episode 337 - On the Shelf for March 2026

The Most Infamous Female Pirates Who Probably Weren't Lesbians

Contrasting Views of F/F Sex in the 17th Century

Why yes, it's more 17th century pornography

Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Episode 336 – Aye, There’s the Rub

Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Episode 335 - On the Shelf for February 2026

Think of the strongest sexual taboos and then "nun harder"

Sex, Satire, and Social Pedagogy

Pop Culture Lesbian Sororal Incest - Yeah They Went There

A Sexual Biography in 17th c Flanders

The Edges of Gender

Gender Non-Conformity in All its Forms

How to do Homosexual History

Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Episode 334 – Fiction Double-Header: Down By the Tumbling Stream by E C Hallewell & Where You Go by Jennifer Nestojko

Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Episode 333 – Our F/Favorite Tropes Part 19: Age Gap

Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Episode 332 - On the Shelf for January 2026

Rekhti Poetry and its Context

A Disappointing and Brief Article on the Mahabharata

Book Review: Inventing the Renaissance by Ada Palmer

A Japanese Comedy of Genders

Yet Another "We Have Very Little Information" (because we haven't looked very hard)

Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Episode 331 – Jane Austen Birthday Celebration

Cross-Cultural Questions

A Great Article Whose Content I Skim Lightly

A High-Level Overview of Asian Sexual Cultures

Ya win some, ya lose some - more queer Chinese history

Chinese Models of Gender Crossing

Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Episode 330 - On the Shelf for December 2025

Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Episode 329 – Ma’am, This is a Fruit Stand by Maya Dworsky-Rocha

Heading East For A While

Nothing Much to See Here Part 2

Early Modern English Crossdressing Anxieties

Have We Had Enough Katherine Philips Yet?

Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Episode 328 – Christina Rosetti’s “The Goblin Market” (reprised)

The Range of Cross-Gender Performance on the 18th Century Stage

Award Eligibility Post

Masquerading in 18th Century England

Methinks the Poet Doth Protest Too Much

Women and Sexual Graffiti in Ancient Pompeii

Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Episode 327 - On the Shelf for November 2025

Lucian's Courtesan-Philosophers

Fan-girling Sappho

The History of the History of Sappho

Who was Sappho's Audience?

Fish Markets in 19th Century Marseille

Psychoanalyzing Sappho's "Deviance"

Sappho's Love Charm?

Or maybe it was just a whole different ball game

Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Episode 326 – Speculative Fiction and Sapphic Plots

For the Love of Ambiguity

Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Episode 325 - On the Shelf for October 2025

A brief overview of Athenian sexuality

Downing comes through after all

Cleanup in Classical Aisle 5

You Can't Win 'Em All

Squeezing in a tiny bit of female content in the article

New Zealand: The Birding

Yet More on Ancient Greek Dildos

Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Episode 324 - Emma Stebbins Exhibition Interview