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Queer Lit

Queer Lit

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Queer Lit is a podcast about LGBTQIA+* literature and culture. In each episode, literary studies researcher Lena Mattheis talks to an expert in the field of queer studies. Topics include lesbian literature, inclusive pronouns and language, gay history, trans and non-binary novels, intersectionality and favourite queer films, series or poems.

New episode every other week!

Recent transcripts here: https://lenamattheis.wordpress.com/queer-lit-transcripts/

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  • “Shameless Vampires” with RJ Wade and Sarah Prescott

    “Shameless Vampires” with RJ Wade and Sarah Prescott
    Oct 19 2026
    Welcome, children of the night, to a particularly shameless spooky special all about an eternally queer-coded fan favourite: the vampire. RJ Wade and Sarah Prescott join me to speak about bookish bloodsuckers, raunchy revenants, and sapphic succubi. The dramatic reading of a yet unperformed Carmilla play had me at the very edge of my seat and I also learned a lot about both the cultural and the literary history of vampirism.

    References:
    Quite Shameless: Cultural Reflections on the Vampire
    https://library.leeds.ac.uk/events/event/1900/galleries/1085/quite-shameless-cultural-reflections-on-the-vampire
    RJ Wade’s An Exhibition History of Victorian Leeds (Liverpool UP, 2023)
    https://www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10.3828/9781802078541
    University of Leeds Cultural Collections
    Bram Stoker’s Dracula
    Animated Activism: Women Empowered
    https://library.leeds.ac.uk/events/event/1900/galleries/844/animated-activism-women-empowered
    Hamilton Deane’s Dracula (1924)
    Sheridan Le Fanu’s Carmilla (1872)
    The Dark Blue
    Byron
    Dracula Society
    https://www.thedraculasociety.org.uk/
    Radclyffe Hall’s The Well of Loneliness (1928)
    Virginia Woolf’s Orlando (1928)
    Dora Mary Patrick
    Quincey Morris
    Van Helsing
    Stage@Leeds
    https://stage.leeds.ac.uk/
    Christopher Craft’s “‘Kiss Me with those Red Lips’: Gender and Inversion in Bram Stoker's Dracula” (1984)
    https://www.jstor.org/stable/2928560
    Chris Latham
    Revenant
    Wharram Percy
    Maurice Beresford
    Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma
    Josephine Butler
    @lulgalleries
    C.E. McGill’s Our Hideous Progeny
    https://cemcgill.com/our-hideous-progeny/
    BorrowBox
    Libby
    Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein
    Ally Wilkes’ All the White Spaces
    The Bookish Type
    https://thebookishtype.co.uk/
    Kit Heyam https://kitheyam.com/

    Questions you should be able to respond to after listening:
    1. What might make a vampire queer? Which literary vampires do we speak about in the episode?
    2. When Sarah talks about a ‘pleasing terror’, what kind of experience is described and who is this phrase borrowed from? Have you ever felt a pleasing terror?
    3. How is the revenant figure similar to and different from the vampire?
    4. What does Wade say about the relevance of the medical humanities lens? Please look up the term medical humanities if you are not familiar.
    5. Do you have a favourite vampire? How queer-coded are they?
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    48 min
  • “Against Ageism” with Simon(e) van Saarloos

    “Against Ageism” with Simon(e) van Saarloos
    Oct 5 2026
    Have you ever thought about your age as being assigned at birth? In this episode, Simon(e) van Saarloos and I explore how queer thought might allow us to move beyond preconceptions of age, but also about the manifold and intersectional consequences of ageism. Simon(e) reflects on how trans narratives might work without reliance on linearity and why age is such a powerful category when it comes to agency.

    CW: Around minutes 11 to 13, there is a nongraphic mention of sexual violence.

    References:
    Simon(e) van Saarloos’ Against Ageism: A Queer Manifesto (2023)
    Simon(e) van Saarloos’ Playing Monogamy (2019)
    Simon(e) van Saarloos’ Take ‘Em Down: Scattered Monuments and Queer Forgetting (2021)
    Simon(e) van Saarloos’ Give Piss A Chance: A Willing Suspension of Consequences
    Trans Despair (2027)
    Samantha Nye
    MU Hybrid Art House in Eindhoven
    Mona Eltahawy
    Ira Kip
    KIP Republic
    Denise Ferreira Da Silva
    Roe vs Wade
    Crip time
    Mel Y. Chen
    Chrononormativity (Elizabeth Freeman)
    Alison Kafer
    JJJJJerome Ellis
    Fred Moten
    Fumi Okiji
    @svansaarloos
    Jordy Rosenberg’s Night Night Fawn
    Saketopoulou, A. (2026). Exigent Sadism. Social Text, 44(1), 25–51. https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-12195785

    Questions you should be able to respond to after listening:
    1. What does Simon(e) mean by ‘change-phobic’?
    2. I really love when Simon(e) explains that “linear time is mapped onto the body and we call that age.” – How could we understand age in other ways? What might a queer approach to age be?
    3. Simon(e) mentions age-segregated institutions. What are examples of these and how does age shape institutions?
    4. How do race and colonialism play into age?
    5. How often do you think about age? Do you perceive age differently in and outside of queer and trans community?
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    47 min
  • “Queering Prehistory” with S. K. Marley

    “Queering Prehistory” with S. K. Marley
    Sep 21 2026
    We all know that trans people have existed throughout history, but what about before that? S.K. Marley does fascinating research on queerness and transness that predates written history and joins me to speak about what antler headdresses and wooden dolls might teach us about transness. We also discuss how transness, walking and wellbeing are entangled, which landscapes are the most nonbinary, and why ‘prehistory’ is a contested term in itself. Since we’re chatting in a beautiful park in York, this episode has some bonus bird song and squirrel mischief.

    References:
    Out and Wild
    https://www.outandwild.co.uk/
    Our Transcapes
    https://skmarley.co.uk/our-transcapes/
    Ballachulish Goddess
    Braak Bog Figures
    The Wittemoor Figures
    Shigir Idol
    https://skmarley.co.uk/
    @sk____marley
    Our Flag Means Death

    Questions you should be able to respond to after listening:
    1. What does ‘prehistory’ mean?
    2. Why does S.K. speak about being trans and being in nature? What does this have to do with wellbeing?
    3. S.K. speaks about notions of truth in contemporary trans debates and about colonial perspectives in academia. Why is their focus on British prehistory important in both of these contexts?
    4. Why are the antler headdresses S.K. talks about a turning point in their research and their thinking about duality?
    5. Why are bogs trans? What is the most trans or nonbinary landscape you have ever encountered?
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    39 min
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