The Lesbian Project Podcast
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All the sapphic traffic - for anyone who wants more lesbian in their life www.thelesbianprojectpod.com
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Episodes
Episode 26 FREE: Love Lies Bleeding; lesbian non-bed death; a military memorial for LGBT people; "assigned female at birth queer joy" and other ridiculous euphemisms for normal experiences.
5/10/2024
Love Lies Bleeding:
Lesbian non-bed, actual death:
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/article-abstract/2818061
https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/news/hsph-in-the-news/bisexual-lesbian-women-die-earlier-than-heterosexual-women/
https://nypost.com/2024/04/26/lifestyle/bisexual-and-lesbian-women-die-younger-study/
Military memorial https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13348195/Britains-LGBT-armed-forces-memorial-created.html
Truly appalling article about Kathleen’s supposed hate speech https://www.cambridgeblog.org/2023/10/why-kathleen-stock-is-wrong-to-assume-that-its-not-hate-speech-to-say-males-cant-be-women/
Academic article of the week: An abundance of cakes’: Assigned female at birth queer joy and queer ethics across generations.
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/13634607241245945
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Duration:00:57:37
Episode 25: PREMIUM - aftermath of Lesbian Visibility Week; Auto(gynephilia)straddle; don't sleep with your sperm donor; the intersectionality of lesbian death on television (or something).
5/3/2024
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Joanna Cherry MP’s speech https://www.thelesbianproject.co.uk/resources/joanna-cherry-parliamentary-speech
Former Stonewall boss Nancy Kelly rises to gaslight lesbians yet again https://www.campaignlive.com/article/transphobic-media-organisations-alienating-whole-queer-community/1870077
Diva Awards https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/nicola-…
Duration:00:10:00
Episode 24 FREE: Interview with the our beloved patron - the one, the only MARTINA NAVRATILOVA!
4/26/2024
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Duration:00:55:26
Episode 23 PREMIUM: Reliving the 80s Lesbian Sex Wars! with Linda Semple; plus multiple orgasms and Liz Hurley's new film.
4/19/2024
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LINKS
Lesbians have more orgasms than straight women
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/wellness-us/article-13272001/lesbians-likely-orgasms-straight-women-new-study.html
Liz Hurley does lesbian sex scene in film, directed by her 21 year old son
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-13280017/elizabeth-damian-hurley-chic-lesbian-sex-scene-strictly-confident…
Duration:00:15:00
Episode 22 FREE - Julie and Kathleen react to the Cass Review; plus queer pheasants, Isla's Way (film), and the ancestral wisdom of our queer elders.
4/10/2024
LINKS:
The Cass Review final report: https://cass.independent-review.uk/home/publications/final-report/
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13289329/20-years-women-intimidation-death-threats-livelihoods-sanity-Julie-Bindel.html
Queer pheasants: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/03/21/pheasants-queer-museum-lgbt-exhibition-hastings/
Isla’s Way: https://www.theguardian.com/film/2023/nov/05/isla-roberts-islas-way-documentary-partner-susan-phillips-rees
Academic article of the week: Letters from Queer Elders: Transmitting Intergenerational Wisdom in LGBTQ+ Communities https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/00918369.2024.2326482?casa_token=O6B6jEsmm9cAAAAA:x97vmTVT-kLpd9cNqIcWTri45lrXkJVgtY4x4n9_VGWScgAppntTnJC8yCVBjkaJnGkqHpexPDTU3g
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Duration:00:43:05
Episode 21 PREMIUM: trans day of resurrection; lesbian festivals for men; TV drama Float; the lesbian new wave in cinema; Meg Jones; wearing T-shirts and calling it politics.
4/5/2024
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LINKS
The trans day of visibility/ Easter Sunday mashup https://globalnews.ca/news/10388638/calgary-unitarians-easter-story-drag-trans-day-of-visibility/
Oban Festival https://diva-magazine.com/2024/03/19/what-do-you-call-a-lesbian-festival-these-days/
Float – https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2024/mar/26/ive-never-seen-anything-like-it-how-a-scott…
Duration:00:15:00
Episode 20 FREE: Canada update, Can-SG conference update, Drive Away Dolls, ridiculous NHS surveys, queering the fruit fly.
3/29/2024
LINKS
Vancouver trip: https://www.newwesttimes.com/news/indigenous-scholar-debunks-two-spirit-gender-concept-as-colonial-fabrication/article_68ac36aa-eb92-11ee-be40-633a3a11ae1b.html
Can-SG conference https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/03/23/doctors-gender-critical-conference-ambushed-protestors/
Kathleen’s review of Judith Butler: https://unherd.com/2024/03/what-is-judith-butler-afraid-of/
Drive-Away Dolls:
NHS survey:
https://twitter.com/Docstockk/status/1772722904817430775
Queer fruit flies:
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/08164649.2020.1775068
https://www.them.us/story/fruit-flies-gay-air-pollution
https://www.outfrontmagazine.com/is-air-pollution-turning-fruit-flies-gay-not-quite/
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Duration:00:59:08
Episode 19 PREMIUM - Kathleen globetrotting, lesbian parents on birth certificates, rising LGBTQ+ identification, pomodorosexuals (or something).
3/22/2024
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LINKS
Lesbian parents on birth certificates:
https://lesbiangenius.org/lesbians-defeat-the-far-right-in-italy/
https://unherd.com/2023/07/lesbian-mothers-should-be-on-birth-certificates/
https://feministpost.it/en/insights-reflections/maternita-lesbica-lettera-aperta-a-kathleen-stock/
LGBTQ+ identification now at 7.6% : https://news.gallup.com/poll/611864/lg…
Duration:00:10:00
Episode 18 FREE - We talk to television industry icon Caroline Spry! Plus: taxpayer-funded Highland orgies and orchidsexuals.
3/15/2024
LINKS:
Caroline Spry’s career:
https://carolinespry.com/
https://web.archive.org/web/20211120052651/https://lesbianandgaynews.com/2021/06/caroline-spry-the-woman-who-put-gays-on-tv/
REIN: https://www.leonieraegasson.com/reinauditions
Orchidsexuality: https://asexuals.fandom.com/wiki/Orchidsexual
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Duration:01:02:39
Episode 17 PREMIUM: lesbian sperm whales and our queer seas; the Gateways Club; prison dramas and Bad Girls; aporagender.
3/8/2024
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LINKS
Gay, lesbian and intersex whales: our queer sea has much to teach us
The Gateways club https://metro.co.uk/2024/03/01/secret-history-worlds-oldest-lesbian-bar-20372868/amp/
The Speed Twins by Maureen Chadwick https://www.bigbroad.co.uk/productions/the-speed-twins/
Bad Girls https://www.amazon.co.uk/Bad-Girls-Series-1/dp/B01MY33139
Aporagender https://…
Duration:00:15:00
Episode 16 FREE - Class sneak behaviour on trains; lesbian phone lines remembered; marriage and divorce; identifying as gender apathetic
3/1/2024
LINKS:
Kathleen’s talk to the Committee For Academic Freedom:
Cambridge Lesbian Line remembered https://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/news/history/1970s-phone-line-keeping-cambridgeshire-28706575
Lesbian weddings and divorces https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/lesbian-brides-beat-gay-grooms-in-rush-down-aisle-20240223-p5f792.html
Gender apathetic https://www.charliehealth.com/post/what-does-it-mean-to-be-gender-apathetic
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Duration:01:03:04
Episode 15 PREMIUM: Julie swanning about; Kristen Stewart's Rolling Stone cover; straight women watching same-sex porn; lesbian bed death
2/23/2024
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(Apologies for Julie's sound - recorded on holiday. Normal service resumes next week.)
LINKS
Kristen Stewart Rolling Stone cover https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/kirsten-stewart-rolling-stone-cover-1235828984/
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-13098663/Kristen-Stewart-says-shes-really-happy-Rolling-Stone-pictorial-exuded-sexu…
Duration:00:10:00
Episode 14 FREE: life as a lesbian in Montenegro and Canada; Albanian sworn virgins; opera and trouser roles; lesbian bars and Valentine's horrors; with special guest Lydia Perović
2/16/2024
LINKS:
Lydia Perović: https://www.lydiaperovic.com/
The Albanian Sworn Virgin tradition https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mAPfugbPjPs
Houskeeping for beginners film trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PeMlORxufuc
Straight men in lesbian bars https://mashable.com/article/tiktok-cubbyhole-debacle-raises-question-who-belongs-in-queer-spaces
Anne-Sophie von Otter as Carmen at Glyndebourne (NOT a trouser role!) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_yfyXGpxt4
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Duration:01:12:00
Episode 13 PREMIUM: 20th anniversary of Julie being cancelled; hot Spanish chefs; mean books about lesbians by lesbians; football club lunacy; sapiosexuals.
2/9/2024
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LINKS
THAT Guardian article by Julie, as headlined and illustrated by someone else at the paper https://twitter.com/bindelj/status/1753000280369582438?s=20
Nieves Barragán Mohacho https://foodandtravel.com/food/cover-interviews/nieves-barragan-mohachos-basque-country
"Lesbians are dying out" graphic novel by Kay Hyatt. https://twitter.com/ScotLesbians/status/1753163969366249766
Linzi Smith banned from Newcastle Utd games for tweeting https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13043619/Newcastle-United-fan-matches-2026-trans-Premier-League-Stasi-dossier.html
Tracy Chapman and Luke Combs at the Grammys (clip) https://twitter.com/Phil_Lewis_/status/1754316946403709139
Duration:00:31:47
Episode 12 FREE: being a young gender-critical feminist; remembering Magdalen Berns; Nyad; phallic pride columns; and why lesbians cannot have their own things - with very special guest Nicole Jones.
2/2/2024
Links
Check out Nicole's wonderful art, writing, and activism here https://linktr.ee/satiricole
The late, great Magdalen Berns' youtube channel https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvTTakI97sQ4SkMnsH8r0qQ
Rebecca Reilly-Cooper: Critically examining the doctrine of gender identity https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPVNxYkawao
Nyad https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3anCgVSQb3Q
Programmes about lesbians turning into programmes about drag queens https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-13015647/Lucy-Worsley-fire-feminist-BBC-Lady-Killers-podcast-episode-lesbian-invisibility-shifts-focus-discrimination-male-drag-artists.html
Is the world friendlier when you are a straight woman? (Paywall) https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/im-bisexual-but-the-world-felt-friendlier-when-i-passed-as-straight-tmvxxq5hm
Phallic pride column revealed at London Bridge station (Paywall) https://www.telegraph.co.uk/columnists/2024/01/30/london-bridge-pride-column-trains-virtue-signalling/
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Duration:01:08:03
Episode 11 PREMIUM: The L-word anniversary, YA same-sex romances, the ethics of surrogacy, the Mean Girls reboot, jokes about lesbians, fraysexuals, and Fray Bentos pies.
1/26/2024
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Links:
Remembering Maisie: https://unherd.com/2024/01/farewell-to-my-princess-diana-dog/?fbclid=IwAR1d6YfYx0etlIwkMuQLBHrkz1ksY3E-68QX3jjipwv8yJ8x5uxm9f5q8xM
L Word turns 20: https://www.indiewire.com/features/commentary/the-l-word-pilot-20-anniversary-lgbtq-backslide-1234945385/
Lesbian and same-sex YA romance: https://unherd.com/2024/01/why-women-love-lesbian-romance/
Taiwan legislators wish to expand surrogacy to lesbian couples https://www.taiwannews.com.tw/en/news/5079549
Mean Girls reboots Janis as proud lesbian: https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/movies/story/2024-01-13/mean-girls-movie-musical-janis-lgbtq
Duration:00:10:35
Episode 10 FREE: guilt-by-association, queering Taylor Swift, Sandi Toksvig at Cambridge, sperm donors, lesbians in Gaelic, and demisexuals
1/19/2024
Links
The Lesbian Project's report on Sexual Orientation and the Census https://www.thelesbianproject.co.uk/resources
Jeanette Winterson's love of Le Creuset https://www.theguardian.com/books/2000/sep/02/fiction.jeanettewinterson
Queering Taylor Swift https://web.archive.org/web/20240108024029/https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/04/opinion/taylor-swift-queer.html
Sandi Toksvig at Cambridge https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/i-still-get-death-threats-30-years-after-coming-out-says-toksvig-pts56cs7f
Lesbians reject Jewish sperm donor https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/jewish-sperm-donor-shunned-antisemitic-lesbians-6vc2zprc2
Lesbians in Gaelic https://www.thenational.scot/news/24036802.bbc-alba-soap-feature-first-lesbian-storyline-gaelic-drama/
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Duration:01:11:02
Episode 9: PREMIUM The wonderful world of lesbians in the 80s - with special guest Maria Esposito
1/12/2024
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Links
Maria Esposito https://www.mariaesposito.co.uk/
Out On Tuesday, Channel 4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJ-N_AqXnPI
Jan Allain - Apple Sized Golden Clitoris https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RwQeeyRS90k
Duration:00:11:00
Episode 8: FREE Festive recap, Christmas films, abrosexuality, Skirt Club.
1/5/2024
LINKS
Abrosexuality: https://www.foxnews.com/media/abrosexual-uk-journalist-explains-little-known-sexual-identity
Skirt Club: https://skirtclub.co.uk/
Lesbian couple sue Melbourne police: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12900435/Lesbian-couple-sue-Crown-Casino-Melbourne.html
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Duration:01:09:11
Episode 7: PREMIUM Christmas humbug, forgiveness, Enid Blyton lesbian shenanigans
12/22/2023
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Links:
Ray Williams' youtube channel https://www.youtube.com/@RayAlexWilliams
Enid Blyton's lesbian affair https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/enid-blytons-lesbian-lover-named-in-new-book-wlfwzv3jb
Bindel on panettone https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/dec/24/panettone-festive-delicacy-italian-monstrosity
Duration:00:09:21