Christina of Sweden

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4.8 • 644 Ratings

🗓️ 1 July 2019

⏱️ 86 minutes

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17th-century monarch Christina of Sweden's sexuality and gender has been a topic of debate for close to four centuries. Tune in to learn more, along with coded love letters, political intrigue, and what to put on your CV to become a European king. Sources If you enjoy this episode, consider supporting us on Patreon, checking out our merch, and following us on Twitter, Tumblr and Facebook.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to Queer as Fact.
0:01.6	The podcast bringing you queer history from around the world and throughout time.
0:04.8	I'm Alice.
0:05.5	I'm Irene.
0:06.3	I'm Eli.
0:07.1	And today we're talking about 17th century monarch, Christina, of Sweden.
0:14.6	We have some content warnings before we begin this episode.
0:20.9	This episode will include historical and contemporary queer phobia and misogyny and
0:25.1	historical and contemporary intersexism, including brief mentions of non-consensual
0:29.3	surgeries on intersex people and the historical killing of intersex babies.
0:33.8	It will also include the use of outdated language for intersex people in quotes, misgendering in quotes,
0:39.1	mentions of mental illness, mention of deliberate harm of an infant, brief mentions of war and
0:44.0	death in war, and the description and discussion of an execution.
0:47.4	If any of that sounds like something you don't want to hear, feel free to skip this episode
0:50.3	and check out any of our other content.
0:52.3	I'd also like to thank Radale, whose username I
0:55.2	may be mispronouncing, The Pretiest Boy and two other anonymous Tumblr users who suggested
1:00.0	the topic of today's episode. I love the power of making your username the prettiest boy,
1:06.9	because whenever we mention them, we have to be like, shout out to the prettiest boy, and get to be like it's me yeah true yeah that's true we've mentioned them a few
1:15.0	times on this podcast so I hope they enjoy that every time that is a username it's
1:19.4	not just us having been like not like we did the research and it's just true turns out
1:24.0	it's true I would also like to thank our patrons who voted on the topic of this episode.
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