Tove Jansson

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4.8 • 644 Ratings

🗓️ 1 February 2018

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Today's episode is on Tove Jansson, a Finnish author and illustrator, and creator of the world-famous Moomins. Tune in for queer women living on a remote island, adorable chubby anti-fascists, and the best euphemism for same-gender love that we've heard in a while. Transcript available here!

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to Queer as Fact. I'm Irene. I'm Eli. I'm Alice. We're a queer history
0:06.0	podcast that comes out on the first and 15th of every month, covering people, places, objects and events relevant to queer history.
0:14.0	Today we'll be looking at Terva Jansen, the creator of the Moomans.
0:18.0	Music creator of the Moomans.
0:30.2	We have a few content mornings for this episode.
0:34.5	There are mentions of anti-Semitism, period-typical homophobia,
0:40.7	World War II happens, and there's one mention of suicidal thoughts.
0:45.6	If any of that is something you need to skip, go ahead and find a different episode.
0:47.7	Should you explain what a movement is?
0:49.1	Oh, yeah.
0:52.2	Probably not everyone knows what a movement is.
0:54.5	They're the most delightful species.
0:55.3	They're very chubby.
0:57.5	They're kind of like hippos, but upright.
1:05.0	Yeah, they're characters which appeared in her children's books and comic strips and many other things.
1:06.8	You can visit our blog and we'll put many pictures of Moomin's for you.
1:10.1	Yeah, welcome to Moobin Week on the blog.
1:13.3	When I started looking at Terva, I went and looked on her like official website and sort of
1:20.9	looked at what they said about her life and that kind of thing.
1:23.1	And while they mention her partner a couple of times, they don't ever mention, like, the relationship between them or how she fits into Tova's life or anything like that.
1:34.4	And so I was having that kind of, okay, I was going to do an episode.
1:37.2	Is this person queer for example?
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