

The Lesbian Project Podcast
The Lesbian Project Podcast
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Sep 5, 2025 • 39min
Episode 91 FREE: remembering Ann McManus; hot stolen moments in the garden centre; lesbian Hedda Gabler; queer signature scent.
Remembering Ann McManus:https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2025/aug/28/ann-mcmanus-obituaryhttps://metro.co.uk/2025/08/28/ann-mcmanus-created-uks-iconic-shows-dies-aged-67-24022909/School gate crusheshttps://www.thetimes.com/magazines/the-times-magazine/article/divorced-women-midlife-lesbian-affairs-xjxhkxhzq Lesbian remake of Hedda Gabler https://www.attitude.co.uk/culture/hedda-trailer-tessa-thompson-lesbian-reimagining-491967/Film version with Ingrid Bergman Queer perfume https://www.whowhatwear.com/beauty/gender-affirming-power-of-scent This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.thelesbianprojectpod.com/subscribe

Aug 15, 2025 • 50min
Episode 89 FREE: same-sex divorce rates, mullets in Berlin, lesbian cutlery.
Same-sex marriage https://www.economist.com/britain/2025/07/31/in-britain-same-sex-marriages-are-more-common-for-women-than-men Aesthetic norms in Berlin https://www.dazeddigital.com/beauty/article/68335/1/sapphic-gaze-berlin-lesbian-renaissance-reclaim-desire-gender-beauty-lip-serviceLesbian cutlery https://www.thetimes.com/uk/history/article/yours-for-800-the-lesbian-cutlery-inscribed-with-secret-love-notes-kn6qczv2g This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.thelesbianprojectpod.com/subscribe

Aug 8, 2025 • 10min
Episode 88 PREMIUM: chat with Sarah Tanburn and Dee McCullough of LGB Alliance Cymru; plus the Lionesses and a lez archbishop.
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thelesbianprojectpod.comhttps://lgballiancecymru.wales/the-legal-defence-of-lesbian-space/https://lgballiancecymru.wales/the-legal-defence-of-lesbian-space/Belper Pride - https://lgballiance.org.uk/the-curious-story-of-belper-pride/https://www.facebook.com/groups/22360544014/posts/10163487456889015/https://www.facebook.com/LGBAllianceUK/photos/we-were-in-belper-in-derbyshire-y…

Aug 1, 2025 • 52min
Episode 87 FREE: Amy Bradley is Missing; surf champ statue; are lesbian parents stricter?
Amy Bradley is Missing https://www.out.com/gay-tv-shows/amy-bradley-netflixhttps://www.netflix.com/title/81741332Pauline Menczer https://qnews.com.au/lesbian-surf-champ-pauline-menczer-to-get-statue-at-bondi/World’s strictest lesbian parents This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.thelesbianprojectpod.com/subscribe

Jul 24, 2025 • 10min
Episode 87 PREMIUM: a chat with film-maker Melanie Chait, director of Breaking the Silence. no Pride for Northumbria police, heteronormativity in Jane Austen, and a dilezza.
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thelesbianprojectpod.comMelanie Chait:https://lesbianhistorygroup.org/2025/06/01/breaking-the-silence/https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0025vb2Melanie’s recent film: https://www.primevideo.com/detail/Dance-Me-To-The-End-Of-Time/0G115RFO7LWRA7M3QY7VK61APZFrom Melanie: I would appreciate asking lesbian mothers and their children between the 1960s to 1980s who lost custody/ did n…

Jul 18, 2025 • 46min
Episode 85 FREE: the LP does Glyndebourne; Desexing Society pod; was Margot Leadbeatter a lesbian?; are you a doppelbanger? and other vital questions.
Glyndebourne:THE CANAPES….Desexing Society podcast on Lesbians in Oz https://x.com/DesexingSociety/status/1941048356899631259?t=Js_rY_ug4neobq_iCYBgFA&s=19Lesbian prison angle for the Erin Patterson casehttps://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/mushroom-killer-erin-patterson-locked-35546058Gateways club gets a blue plaquehttps://www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/chelseas-secret-lesbian-haven-honoured-with-english-heritage-blue-plaque-82264/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gateways_clubLesbian slanghttps://www.refinery29.com/en-au/lesbian-slang-terms-definitions#slide-17 Send us your dilezzas! thelesbianprojectpod@substack.com This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.thelesbianprojectpod.com/subscribe

Jul 4, 2025 • 10min
Episode 84 PREMIUM: Eve Adams, The Ministry of Lesbian Affairs, sapphic Tudor romps, another dilezza.
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thelesbianprojectpod.comEve Adams:https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/america-deported-her-for-publishing-a-book-titled-lesbian-love-years-later-she-was-murdered-by-the-nazis-for-being-jewish-180986864/https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/rediscovering-eve-adams-the-radical-lesbian-activisthttps://www.amazon.co.uk/Lesbian-Love-Evelyn-Addams-ebook/dp/B0CWPRSM9MThe …

Jun 27, 2025 • 56min
Episode 83 FREE: Sarah McBride interview; queer food book; Jillian Michaels on Pride; another dilezza.
Sarah McBride interview:https://web.archive.org/web/20250618050456/https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/17/opinion/ezra-klein-podcast-sarah-mcbride.htmlhttps://web.archive.org/web/20250619180848/https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/18/us/politics/democrats-supreme-court-transgender-ruling.html/Jillian Michaels on Pridehttps://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14814341/JILLIAN-MICHAELS-gay-woman-pride-month-hijacked.htmlQueer foodhttps://48hills.org/2025/06/what-is-queer-food-book-john-birdsall-interview/Send us your dilezzas! thelesbianprojectpod@substack.com This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.thelesbianprojectpod.com/subscribe

Jun 20, 2025 • 10min
Episode 82 PREMIUM: wives who look like sisters; vegetarian lesbian cookbook; are you doing femme fashion right?; celebrating lesbian lineage through photos; Kathleen has a rant.
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thelesbianprojectpod.comMarrying your twin sisterhttps://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jun/11/pride-wife-twin-sister-similar Lesbian vegetarian cookbookhttps://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/ng-interactive/2025/jun/12/my-unexpected-pride-icon-the-green-roasting-tin-a-cookbook-no-lesbian-vegetarian-can-be-withoutFemme fashion – are you doing it right?https://www.elle…

Jun 13, 2025 • 51min
Episode 81 FREE: limerence, a romcom, Jeanette Winterson, L word memoir, lesbians mean business.
Limerancehttps://www.pride.com/answers-advice/love-and-sex/limerence-explained#rebelltitem5The Situationship https://www.primevideo.com/detail/Situationship/0P6OGKYFC7QIGCBYN8EESPEMXDRSC to do Oranges are not the only fruithttps://www.thetimes.com/culture/books/article/rsc-jeanette-winterson-lesbian-novel-rf38stcvxhttps://www.audible.co.uk/pd/Why-Be-Happy-When-You-Could-Be-Normal-Audiobook/B007JINC6A?qid=1749460796&sr=1-1&ref_pageloadid=not_applicable&pf_rd_p=c6e316b8-14da-418d-8f91-b3cad83c5183&pf_rd_r=WCGBTSKE4KVZQRVAJA90&plink=Q8F7jevkz0J8ZUMl&pageLoadId=UGGNfb0TZb8LtxeP&creativeId=41e85e98-10b8-40e2-907d-6b663f04a42d&ref=a_search_c3_lProduct_1_1https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/434513/christmas-days-by-jeanette-winterson/9781784709020 L word memoir out https://www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-pop-culture/so-gay-you-memoir-kate-moennig-leisha-hailey-l-word-rcna210393 Lesbians mean business (can’t believe they didn’t call it that) https://www.swlondoner.co.uk/life/04062025-lesbian-led-business-group-takes-on-workplace-exclusion This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.thelesbianprojectpod.com/subscribe