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Inventing "Victorian" Sexuality in the 18th Century
It All Started in a Garden
Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Episode 343 – Salt for the Unmarried by Khayelihle Benghu
Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Episode 341 - On the Shelf for May 2026
Add "Inseparable" to Your Codewords for Sapphic
Who's Redefining Sex?
An Overview of the 2026 Best Related Work Finalists in the Context of The Theory of Related-ivity
Loyalties Betrayed in Staged History
Circling Back to Traub
A Guide to the Sapphic Regency - The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Episode 342
Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Episode 340 – Mary/Charles Hamilton: The Original Female Husband
Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Episode 339 - On the Shelf for April 2026
Fact-Checking Fielding
The Original Female Husband
The Conclusion of Anne Bonny and Mary Read
Analyzing Anne Bonny's Timeline
Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Episode 338 - Anne Bonny, Mary Read, and the Invention of Lesbian Pirates
Anne Bonny's Narrative
How Plausible is Mary Read's Narrative?
If a Text Says "You're Not Going to Believe This" Don't
The Pop Culture Background of Cross-Dressing Sailors
Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Episode 337 - On the Shelf for March 2026
The Theory of Related-ivity: Segment XVI
The Theory of Related-ivity: Segment XV
The Theory of Related-ivity: Segment XIV
The Theory of Related-ivity: Segment XIII
The Theory of Related-ivity: Segment XII
The Theory of Related-ivity: Segment XI
The Theory of Related-ivity: Segment X
The Theory of Related-ivity: Segment IX
The Theory of Related-ivity: Segment VIII
The Theory of Related-ivity: Segment VII
The Theory of Related-ivity: Segment VI
The Theory of Related-ivity: Segment V
The Theory of Related-ivity: Segment IV
The Theory of Related-ivity: Segment III
The Theory of Related-ivity: Segment II
The Theory of Related-ivity: Segment I
The Most Infamous Female Pirates Who Probably Weren't Lesbians
Contrasting Views of F/F Sex in the 17th Century
Mary Read's Narrative
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