NEW EPISODE!
Today's episode is on Kenyan director Wanuri Kahiu’s 2018 lesbian romance film, Rafiki.
Join us for a rich exploration of Kenyan culture through the lens of the director’s self-titled “Afrobubblegum” genre, legal drama, and a DJ named after an Australian cartoon character.
NEW EPISODE!
queerasfact.podbean.com/e/hwarang/
Hwarang, a group of youth in first millenium Korea who represent nationalism, masculinity, and gay love. Episode contains: the most beautiful men in Korea, song lyrics about gay love, and how to approach queer history across time and culture.
NEW EPISODE!
queerasfact.podbean.com/e/hwarang/
Hwarang, a group of youth in first millenium Korea who represent nationalism, masculinity, and gay love. Episode contains: the most beautiful men in Korea, song lyrics about gay love, and how to approach queer history across time and culture.
Check out our podcast on Megillus if you want to hear more about this ancient trans character! queerasfact.podbean.com/e/megillus/
They also described themself as attracted to celibacy, and may have been asexual.
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Throughout their life they continued to reject aspects femininity, often wearing a mix of masculine and feminine clothing, and at times experimenting with male names. Christina wrote coded love letters to a cardinal, and also had a relationship with one of their ladies-in-waiting. (2/3)
"Don't make a woman out of me. My name is Megillus ... I was born a woman like the rest of you, and I have the mind and the desires and everything else of a man." Megillus in Lucian's 'Dialogues of the Courtesans', 2nd century CE
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In 1654, Sweden’s monarch Christina abdicated the throne, cut their hair, donned trousers, and left the country to pursue a life of arts and scholarship in Rome... (1/3)