Queer as Fact

Queer as Fact

a queer history podcast

  • 1 hour 32 minutes
    Frieda Belinfante

    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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    [Image: Frieda dressed in a men's jacket and tie with a masculine haircut, smoking a cigarette and looking directly at the camera.] 

     

    5 October 2023, 11:39 am
  • 1 hour 11 minutes
    Franz Nopcsa

    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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    [Image: Franz in traditional Albanian dress, 1913]

    14 September 2023, 11:01 pm
  • 54 minutes 20 seconds
    Queerness in Tabletop Roleplaying Games

    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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    [Image: The front cover of the 1983 Dungeons & Dragons Basic Set]

    31 August 2023, 9:34 pm
  • 1 hour 6 minutes
    Jane Austen

    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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    [Image: sketch of Jane Austen by her sister Cassandra Austen, c.1810 - source.]

    15 July 2023, 12:00 am
  • 45 minutes 25 seconds
    A League of Their Own

    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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    [Image: A cropped version of the poster for the 2022 TV series A League of Their Own, featuring (left to right, top to bottom) Chante Adams as Maxine Chapman, Abbi Jacobson as Carson Shaw, Gbemisola Ikumelo as Clance Morgan and D'Arcy Carden as Greta Gill].

    30 June 2023, 11:00 pm
  • 43 minutes 49 seconds
    Interview with Danielle Scrimshaw

    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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    [Image: The cover of Danielle's Book, She and her Pretty Friend. It shows two women on a purple background surrounded by native Australian plants.]

    15 June 2023, 1:48 am
  • 1 hour 19 minutes
    Hijra in 19th-century India

    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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    [Image: A Hijra and her companions in East Bengal, 1860s]

    1 June 2023, 12:46 am
  • 1 hour 37 minutes
    Isadora Duncan

    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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    [Image: Isadora Duncan in ancient Greek-inspired clothing - source]

    15 April 2023, 3:50 am
  • 46 minutes 2 seconds
    Victim

    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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    [Image Description: The poster for the movie Victim, starring Dirk Bogarde and Sylvia Syms. It features the face of a man wearing a pained expression, and the silhouette of another man. Text on the poster reads "A scorching drama of the most un-talked about subject of our time!"]

    1 April 2023, 6:23 am
  • 59 minutes 16 seconds
    Elke Mackenzie

    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.

    Check out our website, where you can find out everything there is to know about Queer as Fact. 

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    15 March 2023, 3:04 am
  • 1 hour 15 minutes
    Relationships Between Women in Ancient Rome

    Queer as Fact is back from hiatus! Today we're talking about relationships between women in ancient Rome. Join us to hear a queer creation myth, read some ancient love poetry, and find out which whether your star sign made you gay.

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    [Image: Relief of two Roman women holding hands]

    1 March 2023, 8:05 am
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