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A podcast about LGBT+ issues and culture from a historical and scientific perspective. Each episode focuses on a relevant science or history topic, summarizing important points for the LGBT+ community.
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Wednesday May 05, 2021
Wednesday May 05, 2021
Amelio Robles Ávila was a trans man who fought in the Mexican Revolution who lived as himself for over seventy years and was a total badass!
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Music: Cabaret by Kai Engel
Links:
Oral history compiled by Olga Cárdenas Trueba
Mexican Secretary of Culture history on Amelio
Lydia Zárate's article in Pikara Magazine
Maria's thread reflecting on trans identity and stuff, you don't actually have to follow her, unless you want to?
Thursday Mar 04, 2021
Thursday Mar 04, 2021
Doing history can be tough, especially when it comes to addressing LGBTQIA+ topics! In this episode, we talk about some of the challenges we face, how we overcome them, and how our perspectives can color our view of history. Also we have a spirited discussion on technical jargon, and why we hate it with a passion!
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Music: Cabaret by Kai Engel
Links:
"The New Unhistoricism in Queer Studies" by Valerie Traub
Examples of erotic murals in Pompeii (NSFW...obviously)
Friday Feb 05, 2021
Friday Feb 05, 2021
In this episode we talk about how gender influences the way people speak and communicate. We start with a study on the differences between men and women using signed languages like ASL, then talk about a few studies examining the differences in word choice between cis-men and cis-women, and end with an article on trans men and what people perceive as “gay sounding” speech in men.
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Music: Cabaret by Kai Engel
Sources:
Turn-Taking, Fingerspelling, and Contact in Signed Languages edited by Ceil Lucas
Women, Men, and Language by Jennifer Coates
Hegemonic masculinity and the variability of gay-sounding speech: The perceived sexuality of transgender men by Lal Zimman
Wednesday Jan 20, 2021
Wednesday Jan 20, 2021
Cyberpunk 2077 is out and it sure is a video game! In this episode, Maria takes off her historian hat, puts on the gamer socks, and talks about what the game did right, what the game did wrong, and why QA teams are highly undervalued in video game development! All without any meaningful spoilers!
CW: Transphobia (15:04-15:23)
Homophobia (20:54-22:12)
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Music: Cabaret by Kai Engel
Links:
Bella Blondeau’s article at The Gamer
Interview with Kasia Redesuik at Eurogamer
Charlie Hall’s interview with Redesuik at Polygon
Friday Jan 08, 2021
Friday Jan 08, 2021
We’ve had two episodes about gay animals, now it’s time for an episode about animals that have more than two genders. These animals move beyond the gender binary that so many people think is set in stone and easily defined.
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Music: Cabaret by Kai Engel
Links:
1980 paper about female mimicry in bluegill sunfish
2003 paper about hormones and behavior in tree lizards
Evolution’s Rainbow (link to book on Goodreads)
Friday Dec 18, 2020
Thursday Dec 10, 2020
Thursday Dec 10, 2020
"One-Eyed" Charlie Parkhurst was a stagecoach driver and (probably) a trans man who led an awesome, cool life in the early days of California's statehood. Locally famous during his life, and then nationally afterwards, Charley's story is one very familiar to many: moving out to California and living your best life as your true self.
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Music: Cabaret by Kai Engel
Sources
Kathi Bristow, "Those Daring Stage Drivers", California Dept. of Parks and Recreation, 2008.
Charlie’s Obituary and story in the New York Times, January 9, 1880.
California State Parks map of Stagecoach lines in 1850s-1860s.
Thursday Dec 03, 2020
Thursday Dec 03, 2020
This episode discusses Edward Carpenter and his book The Intermediate Sex: A Study of Some Transitional Types of Men and Women. Edward Carpenter was a pretty cool guy overall, although (as you’ll learn) not quite as progressive as Alyssa first thought when she found this book.
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Links:
Edward and George’s gravestone
Wikipedia article with pictures of Edward being stylish
Wikipedia article on Ulrichs’ classification of sexual preferences
Music: Cabaret by Kai Engel
Wednesday Nov 25, 2020
Wednesday Nov 25, 2020
More gay animals! This time we talk about genetic mutations that cause same-sex attraction in fruit flies as well as two examples of gayness in birds that might be even cooler than gayness in penguins.
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Sources:
1996 study with fruitless mutations in male flies
2005 study with fruitless mutations in female flies
Female-Female Pairing in Western Gulls in Southern California
News article with more context on the lesbian seagulls and conservative Christian responses
NYT article about gay albatross
2008 Laysan albatross paper, unfortunately not open-access
Photos of Laysan albatross and their gorgeous smoky eye
Music: Cabaret by Kai Engel
Thursday Nov 19, 2020
Thursday Nov 19, 2020
An intersex person, born in England, moves to America and finds out how shitty people can be. Includes a ridiculous court case that ruled T Hall had to dress as both a man and a woman at all times.
Trigger warning: Really shitty behavior by colonial Virginians.
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Sources:
"Minutes of the Council and General Court, 1622-1629 (Continued)." The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography 31, no. 3 (1923): 207-14.
Norton, Mary Beth, "Communal Definitions of Gendered Identity in Colonial America", Ronald Hoffman, Mechal Sobel, Fredrika J. Teute (eds) Through a Glass Darkly: Reflections on Personal Identity in Early America. University of North Carolina Press, 1997.
Reis, Elizabeth. "Impossible Hermaphrodites: Intersex in America, 1620-1960." The Journal of American History 92, no. 2 (2005): 411-41.
Music: Cabaret by Kai Engel