Hello and welcome to Queer as Fact, the podcast bringing you queer history from around the world

and throughout time.

My name is Eli.

I'm Alice.

And today we're talking about the 19th century British military surgeon, Dr. James Barry.

I'd like to acknowledge the Wawandari warrior-run people of the Kulin Nation as the traditional

owners of the land on which we record this podcast and pay respects to their elders past and

present.

We recognize them as the custodians of an oral history tradition far older than this podcast.

We also have some content warnings before we start this episode.

This episode contains, I would say, fairly mild discussions of general periodical misogyny,

homophobia, transphobia, racism and colonialism. It will also contain misgendering in quotes,

and there will also be brief mentions of imprisonment, dissection of human remains, and

grave robbery, death

in childbirth, gun violence, and sex. If any of that sounds like something that you don't want

to listen to, please feel free to skip this episode and listen to one of our other episodes.

Lastly, I wanted to just say a few brief words about our sources before we get started.

There have been a few biographies of James written over the last few decades.

The one that I relied on the most was the most recent one.

Michael DePries and Jeremy Dr. Dr. Dr. Dr. Dr. Dr. Brunfield's 2016 biography, Dr. James Barry,

a woman ahead of her time.

After a great start with that title.

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