Lesbia Harford

Queer as Fact

History

4.8 • 644 Ratings

🗓️ 15 December 2017

⏱️ 54 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

This episode focuses on Lesbia Harford, an early 20th century Australian woman poet. Lesbia was one of the first female graduates of Melbourne University, a dedicated political activist, and once had someone drink champagne out of her shoe. Transcript available here.

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	Hi everyone. Before we start the episode proper, we have a correction, I guess, of sorts to make.
0:07.5	So when we recorded this, we were very angry and bitter and suspicious about the whole
0:12.9	same-sex marriage situation. And... We have same-sex marriage now. It's super good. We were
0:18.5	promised same-sex marriage by Christmas.
0:21.2	We did not believe this.
0:22.4	We've been promised it many a time before, but we have it now, finally, in this country.
0:27.1	So the podcast you're about to listen to is also a piece of queer history.
0:32.2	Indeed.
0:33.0	With that in mind, back to our regularly scheduled programming.
0:36.1	Enjoy the episode.
0:37.6	Hello and welcome to Queer as Fact. I'm Irene. I'm Eli. I'm Alice.
0:41.9	We're a queer history podcast coming out on the first and 15th of every month,
0:45.6	covering people, events and objects from queer history around the world and throughout time.
0:50.7	Today we're going to be talking about Lesbia Harford, a queer woman poet from early
0:56.3	20th century Australia.
1:01.6	Some content warnings for this episode. This episode contains mentions of alcoholism, PTSD and chronic
1:12.7	illness. If you don't want to hear any of those things, then feel free to leave us and go
1:17.4	and have a look at some of our other episodes.
1:19.4	I want to start by telling you about the inception of this episode because I went to my
1:23.9	local library and there was this collection of her poems on the, like, new books display shelf.
1:29.0	And it sort of caught my eye because it said lesbian.
1:31.4	And I was like, lesbian?
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Queer as Fact, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Queer as Fact and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.