Hello and welcome to Queer's Fiction.

My name is Eli.

And I'm Jason.

This is the first in our little series of extra episodes for Queer's Fact.

And on these ones, we're going to be talking about the intersection of history and

queerness in the media.

Today we're talking about Jay Sheridan Left by News 1872 lesbian vampire novella Carmilla.

As ever, we have some content warnings for this episode. In it, we mention the general

oppression of the Irish by the English in the 19th century,

including mentions of famine. We also talk about the possessive and unhealthy dynamics between

Laura and Carmilla, pretty much just what you would expect of a relationship with a vampire in it.

We also briefly touch on the issue of sexual assault on college campuses later in the episode when we

talk a little bit about the web series Carmilla. There are also a couple of brief mentions of

incest, as well as the sexism that comes along with a 19th century novel. If any of that

sounds like something that you'd rather not listen to, feel free to skip this one. But otherwise,

let's get started

on Carmilla. Carmilla was originally serialized in the literary magazine, The Dark Blue,

over 1871 to 1872. Well, that sounds very modern, like the name, like a literary

magazine named Dark Blue and it being serialized. That was quite a common thing. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

I was always aware that, like, writers were being paid by the page and that a lot of work was serialized. That was quite a common thing. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I was always aware that, like,

writers were being paid by the page

and that a lot of work was serialized,

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