Walatta Petros

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🗓️ 30 November 2024

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Today's episode is on the 17th-century nun, saint, and religious leader Walatta Petros. Join us for Queer as Fact's first visit to Ethiopia, as we learn about 17th century religious conflicts; discuss Walatta Petros' lifelong relationship with Eheta Kristos; and wade into scholarly debate on exactly what the nuns in her community were getting up to. Check out our website, where you can find our sources, as well as everything there is to know about Queer as Fact. If you enjoy our content, consider supporting us on Patreon, checking out our merch, and following us on Instagram, Tumblr and Bluesky. [Image: Illustration of Walatta Petros, an Ethiopian nun wearing an orange patterned shawl. She is holding a cross, and has a halo above her head. Source.]

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to Queer as Facts, the podcast bringing you queer history from around the world
0:03.9	and throughout time.
0:04.9	I'm Alice.
0:05.7	I'm Eli.
0:06.5	And I'm Jasmine.
0:07.4	Today we're talking about the Ethiopian nun, saint and religious leader, Walita Petros.
0:15.5	Before we begin, I'd like to acknowledge the Bonorong-Bunwarang people of the Kulin Nation
0:23.9	as the traditional owners of the land on which we record this podcast, and pay my respects to their elders' past and present.
0:29.9	They are the custodians of an oral history tradition far older than this podcast.
0:33.3	We have some content warnings for this episode.
0:35.3	This episode will include discussions of underage marriage and domestic violence,
0:39.5	civil war, religiously motivated violence, epidemics and death from disease,
0:44.2	modern racism and queer phobia, historic and modern sex negativity,
0:48.4	historic sexism and the death of children.
0:50.8	If any of that is something you don't want to hear, feel free to get this episode and check out our other content. Okay, so this episode is going to be set in Ethiopia.
0:58.5	Where's Ethiopia? It's in the kind of northeast quadrant, I would say, of Africa.
1:04.0	Sorry, that was not meant to be a like pause not knowing what continent. I was just looking
1:09.6	at Alice's face and she was giving me a very quizzical expression.
1:12.7	Yeah.
1:13.1	But yeah, you've got, like, Egypt, and then you've got Sudan and South Sudan, and then you've
1:16.5	got Ethiopia, because, like, that's kind of where the Nile, like, ends up.
1:20.0	Yeah, not bad.
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