Lavender Lit Club Podcast
1) Episode 12 Poetry Minisode 3
In our returning episode, recorded over a year ago, we discuss the poems of some Black, Queer poets and relate their themes to the pandemic and protests around the country. Poems featured are "What th...Show More
2) Episode 11 - Carmilla
In this episode we review one of the first queer books, Carmilla by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu as edited and introduced by Carmen Maria Machado. We talk queer coding and blood sucking and female sexualit...Show More
3) Episode 10 - On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
Ocean Vuong's debut, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous, is a complicated novel tackling themes of trauma, poverty, homophobia, and death. We discuss language, what is accessible and not, but also the be...Show More
4) Episode 9 - Carry On
In this episode we discuss the parody/fanfiction/spinoff thing that is Carry On by Rainbow Rowell. This is a silly and queer alternative perspective on the Chosen One trope we all already love reading...Show More
5) Episode 8 - Poetry Minisode 2
In our second poetry minisode, we read and discuss five of our favorite queer poems. "Come slowly--Eden" by Emily Dickensen, "After God Herself" by Justice Ameer, "Hubble Photographs: After Sappho" by...Show More
6) Episode 7 - The Man Who Fell in Love with the Moon
In this episode we get wild and rowdy with Tom Spanbauer's gay western The Man Who Fell in Love with the Moon. A problematic fave, for sure, this novel is a trip right from page one. We follow a Two-S...Show More
7) Episode 6 - The House of Impossible Beauties
In our sixth episode we look at The House of Impossible Beauties by Joseph Cassara, a fictionalized biographical novel which depicts the lives of various members of the House of Xtravaganza. Made famo...Show More
8) Episode 5 - Her Body and Other Parties
In the fifth episode of Lavender Lit Club we review a collection of speculative fiction by Carmen Maria Machado, Her Body and Other Parties. The stories in this collection blend well genre fiction and...Show More
9) Episode 4 - Poetry Minisode 1
In our first poetry minisode, we read and discuss four of our favorite queer poems. "On nights when I am your husband" by Meg Day, "Recreation" by Audre Lorde, "Because it's summer" by Ocean Vuong, an...Show More
10) Episode 3 - Rubyfruit Jungle
In the third episode of Lavender Lit Club we review the cult classic Rubyfruit Jungle by Rita Mae Brown. Despite this novel being one of the first of it's kind, a landmark lesbian coming of age novel,...Show More