Queer as Fact
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Queer history podcast covering content from around the world and throughout time.
Queer as Fact
6M ago
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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Queer as Fact
7M ago
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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Queer as Fact
7M ago
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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Queer as Fact
9M ago
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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Queer as Fact
9M ago
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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Queer as Fact
10M ago
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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Queer as Fact
10M ago
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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Queer as Fact
1y ago
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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Queer as Fact
1y ago
On today's Queer as Fiction, we discuss the 1961 British noir film Victim.
Join us for some dramatic performances, heavy-handed messaging and a surprising result from a government inquiry.
A link to the film's trailer: https://youtu.be/Ems3u2ZA9SA
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Queer as Fact
1y ago
Today's episode is on Elke Mackenzie, British lichenologist, Antarctic explorer and trans woman. We'll tell you about Elke's incredible devotion to her research, as well as penguin egg facts and one of the coolest landscapes known to humankind.
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