A podcast that delves into the truth and controversy of Sappho; her life, the Isle of Lesbos and her relevance today.
Ellie Brigida, Alyse Knorr & Leesa Charlotte
This episode, we discuss the ancient pirate, Teuta.Thank you to our guests this week, Laura Duncombe and Brandon Jones. Our Pirate Shanty this week is by Alyse Knorr with engineering by Joshua Nelson. As always, you can find us on Twitter and Instagram @sweetbitterpod.You can support us on Patreon at patreon.com/sweetbitter. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
Introducing Leesa's new project, CULT AMERICA, the newest podcast by new Brooklyn-based, black-owned network, Three Springs Media. Each episode, born-and-raised Brooklynite, Carl Joseph-Black and Australian migrant, Leesa Charlotte unpack the rituals and sacrifices that make America great(?) along with stories about some actual cults along the way. From the PLEDGE of ALLEGIANCE to the FOUNDING FATHERS, how did these myths and behaviors become the norm in the USA? And how do they relate to actual cult behaviors?You can find our first two episodes now on Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
This episode, we discuss some of our fave women Pirates!Thank you to our guests this week, Rebecca Simon and Laura Duncombe. Our Pirate Shanty this week is by Alyse Knorr with engineering by Joshua Nelson. As always, you can find us on Twitter and Instagram @sweetbitterpod.You can support us on Patreon at patreon.com/sweetbitter. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
This episode is our second of two-parts about Queer Pirates! Content warning, we discuss sexual violence in this episode.Thank you to our guests this week, Jamie Goodall and Nick Marsellas. Our Pirate Shanty this week is by Alyse Knorr with instrumental, vocals and engineering by Joshua Nelson. As always, you can find us on Twitter and Instagram @sweetbitterpod.You can support us on Patreon at patreon.com/sweetbitter. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
This episode is our first of two-parts about Queer Pirates! Were the Jolly Rogers getting their Rogers jollied or was matelotage just about economics? Or both?Thank you to our guests this week, Jamie Goodall, Clint Jones, Rebecca Simon and Christopher John Farley. Our Pirate Shanty this week is by Alyse Knorr with instrumental, vocals and engineering by Joshua Nelson. As always, you can find us on Twitter and Instagram @sweetbitterpod.You can support us on Patreon at patreon.com/sweetbitter.Transcript See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
This episode, we take a broad look at pirates and their lives with the help of our guests. Did pirates really bury treasure and make treasure maps? And were Pirate Ships utopic societies or chaotic af?Thank you to our guests this week, Jamie Goodall, Rebecca Simon, Wendy Bracewell and Clint Jones. You can read more about our guests and where to find them on our website. Our Pirate Shanty this week is by Joshua Nelson. As always, you can find us on Twitter and Instagram @sweetbitterpod.You can support us on Patreon at patreon.com/sweetbitter. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
Welcome to season 2 of Sweetbitter! This season, we bring you a high-seas adventure full of surprises as we uncover the queer & women's history of pirates. In this episode, Ellie, Alyse & Leesa talk about what's coming up this season and what we're looking forward to!Thanks to Chloe Duckart and Joshua Nelson for their contributions to the Pirates all are gay sea shanty. As always, you can find us on Twitter and Instagram @sweetbitterpod.You can support us on Patreon at patreon.com/sweetbitter.You can find the episode transcript here. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
We MAY have mentioned that Ellie is starring in and producing a podcast musical? Well happy Pride - it's here!You can find the Flame wherever you get your podcasts, cheers
We had such a blast wrapping up our first season of the podcast! Please enjoy this live recording of the event, along with some incredible guests: Kristin Russo (Buffering the Vampire Slayer), Liv Albert (Let's Talk About Myth's Baby), Leigh (History is Gay) and Vanessa Stovall (Playwright & Musician) -- and also the audience members who joined us. We can't wait to see y'all for season 2! In the meantime, you can keep in touch with us via Twitter & Instagram @sweetbitterpod.You can support us on patreon.com/sweetbitter - we have a bunch of bonus episodes for patrons at all levels. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
We had such a blast wrapping up our first season of the podcast! Please enjoy this live recording of the event, along with some incredible guests: Kristin Russo (Buffering the Vampire Slayer), Liv Albert (Let's Talk About Myth's Baby), Leigh (History is Gay) and Vanessa Stovall (Playwright & Musician) -- and also the audience members who joined us. We can't wait to see y'all for season 2! In the meantime, you can keep in touch with us via Twitter & Instagram @sweetbitterpod. You can support us on patreon.com/sweetbitter - we have a bunch of bonus episodes for patrons at all levels.
am I not oldenolden olden it is unwanted.wanting, wantingam I not brokenstolen commonam I not crinkled cranky poisonam I not glinty-eyed and frozenam I not agedshaky glazingam I not hazyguarded cravenam I not onlystingy littleam I not simplebrittle spittingwas I not overover ridden?it is a long storywill you be proud to be my version?it is unwritten.writing, writingam I not ancientraging patientam I not ablecharming stablewas I not buildingforming bravingwas I not rulingguiding namingwas I not brazencrazy choseneven the stones would do my bidding?it is a long storyam I not proud to be your version?it is unspoken.speaking, speakingam I not elderberrybrandyare you not wine before you find me in your own beaker?- Slowly: a plainsong from an older woman to a younger woman Judy GrahnThank you for listening! You can follow us on Twitter & Instagram @sweetbitterpod.You can support us on patreon.com/sweetbitter. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
am I not olden olden olden it is unwanted. wanting, wanting am I not broken stolen common am I not crinkled cranky poison am I not glinty-eyed and frozen am I not aged shaky glazing am I not hazy guarded craven am I not only stingy little am I not simple brittle spitting was I not over over ridden? it is a long story will you be proud to be my version? it is unwritten. writing, writing am I not ancient raging patient am I not able charming stable was I not building forming braving was I not ruling guiding naming was I not brazen crazy chosen even the stones would do my bidding? it is a long story am I not proud to be your version? it is unspoken. speaking, speaking am I not elder berry brandy are you not wine before you find me in your own beaker? - Slowly: a plainsong from an older woman to a younger woman Judy Grahn Thank you for listening! You can follow us on Twitter & Instagram @sweetbitterpod. You can support us on patreon.com/sweetbitter.
Someone will remember us I say even in another time Translated by Carson. Thank you for listening! You can follow us on Twitter & Instagram @sweetbitterpod. You can support us on patreon.com/sweetbitter. Our guests this episode were Chris Mason, Tracey Walters, Vanessa Stovall, Marguerite Johnson, Katherine Blouin and Usama Gad. You can learn more about our guests and where to find them on our website. You can read Vanessa's full article on WAP here.
Come, divine lyre, speak to me and sing! Translated by Rayor. Thank you for listening! You can follow us on Twitter & Instagram @sweetbitterpod. You can support us on patreon.com/sweetbitter. Our guests this episode were Jane Montgomery Griffiths, Jade Esteban Estrada, Aimee Suzara, Maya Herbsman and Vanessa Stovall. You can learn more about our guests and where to find them on our website.
]heart ]absolutely ]I can ] ]would be for me ]to shine in answer ]face ] ]having been stained ] Translated by Carson. Thank you for listening! You can follow us on Twitter & Instagram @sweetbitterpod. You can support us on patreon.com/sweetbitter. Our guests this episode were Diane Rayor, Ian Oliver and Tracey Walters. You can learn more about our guests and where to find them on our website.
To me it seems that man has the fortune of gods, whoever sits beside you and close, who listens to you sweetly speaking and laughing temptingly. My heart flutters in my breast whenever I quickly glance at you – I can say nothing, my tongue is broken. A delicate fire runs under my skin, my eyes see nothing, my ears roar, cold sweat rushes down me, trembling seizes me, I am greener than grass. To myself I seem needing but little to die. Yet all must be endured, since . . . Translated by Rayor Thank you for listening! You can follow us on Twitter & Instagram @sweetbitterpod. You can support us on patreon.com/sweetbitter. Our guests this episode were Diane Rayor, Jane Montgomery Griffiths, Marguerite Johnson, Tracey Walters, Sandra Boehringer and translator Annie McCarthy. You can learn more about our guests and where to find them on our website.
Unfortunately, due to covid-related circumstances, we have to delay the release of episode 9 until next fortnight, March 11th. In the meantime, here's one of our bonus lesbian poetry episodes about Audre Lorde! You can hear our other bonus episodes by becoming a patron at patreon.com/sweetbitter. As always, you can follow us on social media on Twitter & Instagram @sweetbitterpod. If you'd like to join us for our Women's History Month event with Regis University on March 3rd, you can register here.
] of desire ] ] for when I look at you ] such a Hermione ] and to yellow haired Helen I liken you ] ] among mortal women, know this ] from every care ] you could release me ] ] dewy riverbanks ] to last all night long ] [ Translated by Carson Thank you for listening! You can follow us on Twitter & Instagram @sweetbitterpod. You can support us on patreon.com/sweetbitter. Our guests this episode were Chris Mason from Old Songs, Jane Montgomery Griffiths & Diane Rayor. You can learn more about our guests and where to find them on our website. Thank you this week to James Jones for lending us his deep-voice. If you'd like to join us for our Women's History Month event, you can find the details on our site, or register here.
Come to me from Krete to this holy temple, here to your sweet apple grove, altars smoking with frankincense. Cold water ripples through apple branches, the whole place shadowed in roses, from the murmuring leaves deep sleep descends. Where horses graze, the meadow blooms spring flowers in the winds breathe softly . . . * Here, Aphrodite, after gathering . . . pour into cups nectar lavishly mingled with joys. Translation by Rayor Thank you for listening! You can follow us on Twitter & Instagram @sweetbitterpod. You can support us on patreon.com/sweetbitter. Our guests this episode were Roberta Mazza, Marguerite Johnson, Malcolm Choat, Mike Sampson, Usama Gad & Katherine Blouin. You can learn more about our guests and where to find them on our website.
You, children, be zealous for the beautiful gifts of the violetlapped Muses and for the clear songloving lyre. But my skin once soft is now taken by old age, my hair turns white from black. And my heart is weighed down and my knees do not lift, that once were light to dance as fawns. I groan for this. But what can I do? A human being without old age is not a possibility. There is the story of Tithonos, loved by Dawn with her arms of roses and she carried him off to the ends of the earth when he was beautiful and young. Even so was he gripped by white old age. He still has his deathless wife. Translation by Carson (2005) Thank you for listening! You can follow us on Twitter & Instagram @sweetbitterpod. You can support us on patreon.com/sweetbitter. You can read Carson’s thoughts on the 2004 discovery in the New York Review here. Roberta Mazza’s blog, Faces and Voices, can be found here. Our guests this episode were Roberta Mazza, Sandra Boehringer (trans. by Annie McCarthy), Marguerite Johnson, Malcolm Choat, Mike Sampson & Ariel Sabar. You can learn more about our guests and where to find them on our website.
Grab a drink and join us for a holiday bonus episode with our friend Liv Albert from Let’s Talk About Myths Baby. We talk about Aphrodite, Greek Mythology and the patriarchy. Thank you for listening! You can follow us on Twitter & Instagram @sweetbitterpod. You can support us on patreon.com/sweetbitter. You can find Let’s Talk About Myths Baby anywhere you find podcasts and on social media @mythsbaby.
] ] ] ] ]running away ]bitten ] ] ]you ]makes a way with the mouth ]beautiful gifts children ]songdelighting clear sounding lyre ]all my skin old age already hair turned white after black ]knees do not carry ]like fawns ]but what could I do? ]not possible to become ]Dawn with arms of roses ]bringing to the ends of the earth ]yet seized ]wife ]imagines ]might bestow But I love delicacy and this to me— the brilliance and beauty of the sun—desire has allotted. Translation by Carson Thank you for listening! You can follow us on Twitter & Instagram @sweetbitterpod. You can support us on patreon.com/sweetbitter. If you want to know more about Eurocentrism in papyrology, please follow Usama’s blog: Everyday Orientalism. Ariel’s book Veritas: A Harvard Professor, a Con Man & the Gospel of Jesus’s Wife is out wherever you buy books - here’s it's listing our favorite local. If you want to listen to another cool podcast all about the Hobby Lobby, check out the Behind the Bastards episode. Our guests this episode were Malcolm Choat, Ariel Sabar, Mike Sampson & Usama Gad. You can learn more about our guests and where to find them here: https://sweetbitterpodcast.com/guests/ --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app
When you lie dead, no one will remember you For you have no share in the Muses’ roses. No, flitting aimlessly about, You will wildly roam, a shade amidst the shadowy dead. Translated by Dubnoff Thank you for listening! You can follow us on Twitter & Instagram @sweetbitterpod. You can support us on patreon.com/sweetbitter. Our guests this episode were Marguerite Johnson and Malcolm Choat. You can learn more about our guests and where to find them here: https://sweetbitterpodcast.com/guests/ --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app
Once again Love, that loosener of limbs, bittersweet and inescapable, crawling thing, seizes me. Translation by Rayor. Rayor, Diane. Sappho: A New Translation of the Complete Works, Cambridge University Press, 2014. Introduction & notes by André Lardinois. Thank you for listening! You can follow us on Twitter & Instagram @sweetbitterpod. You can support us on patreon.com/sweetbitter. Our guests this episode were Marguerite Johnson, Alex Purves, Jade Esteban Estrada and Diane Rayor. You can learn more about our guests and where to find them here: https://sweetbitterpodcast.com/guests/ --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app
I simply wish to die. Weeping she left me. and told me this, too: We've suffered terribly, Sappho. I leave you against my will. I answered: Go happily and remember me -- you know how we cared for you. If not, let me remind you * . . . the lovely times we shared. Many crowns of violets, roses, and crocuses together . . . you put on by my side and many scented wreaths woven from blossoms around your delicate throat. And . . . with pure, sweet oil [for a queen] . . . you anointed . . . and on soft beds . . . delicate . . . you quenched your desire. Not any . . . no holy site . . . we left uncovered, no grove . . . dance . . . sound Translation by Rayor. Rayor, Diane. Sappho: A New Translation of the Complete Works, Cambridge University Press, 2014. Introduction & notes by André Lardinois. Thank you for listening! You can follow us on Twitter & Instagram @sweetbitterpod. You can support us on patreon.com/sweetbitter - sign up before November 1st at any level for a free Sweetbitter tote bag. Our guests this episode were Marguerite Johnson, Jane Montgomery Griffiths, Sandra Boehringer (translation by Annie McCarthy) and Diane Rayor. You can learn more about our guests and where to find them here: https://sweetbitterpodcast.com/guests/ --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app
Some men say and army of horses and some men say an army on foot and some men say an army of ships is the most beautiful thing on the black earth. But I say it is what you love. Easy to make this understood by all. For she who overcame everyone in beauty (Helen) left her fine husband behind and went sailing to Troy. Not for her children nor her dear parents had she a thought, no- ]led her astray ]for ]lightly ]reminded me now of Anaktoria who is gone. I would rather see her lovely step and the motion of light on her face than chariots of Lydians or ranks of footsoldiers in arms ] not possible to happen ] to pay for a share ] ] ] ] ] toward[ ] ] ] out of the unexpected. Translation by Carson Sappho, , and Anne Carson. If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho. , 2002. Thank you for listening to our first episode! You can follow us on Twitter & Instagram @sweetbitterpod. You can support us on patreon.com/sweetbitter - sign up before November 1st at any level for a free Sweetbitter tote bag. Our guests this episode were Chris Mason from Olds Songs, Marguerite Johnson and Diane Rayor. You can learn more about our guests and where to find them here: https://sweetbitterpodcast.com/guests/ --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app
On the throne of many hues, Immortal Aphrodite, child of Zeus, weaving wiles: I beg you, do not break my spirit, O Queen, with pain or sorrow but come--if ever before from far away you heard my voice and listened, and leaving your father's golden home you came, your chariot yoked with lovely sparrows drawing you quickly over the dark earth in a whirling cloud of wings down the sky through midair, suddenly here. Blessed One, with a smile on your deathless face, you ask what have I suffered again and why do I call again and what in my wild heart do I most wish would happen: "Once again who must I persuade to turn back to your love? Sappho, who wrongs you? If now she flees, soon she'll chase. If rejecting gifts, then she'll give. If not loving, soon she'll love even against her will." Come to me now--release me from these troubles, everything my heart longs to have fulfilled, fulfill, and you be my ally. Translation by Rayor Rayor, Diane. Sappho: A New Translation of the Complete Works, Cambridge University Press, 2014. Introduction & notes by André Lardinois. Thank you for listening to our episode zero! You can follow us on Twitter & Instagram @sweetbitterpod. You can support us on patreon.com/sweetbitter - sign up before November 1st at any level for a free Sweetbitter tote bag.
Welcome to Sweetbitter, a podcast where we investigate the truth and controversy surrounding Sappho her life, the Isle of Lesbos and her relevance today, Each episode we'll deep dive into a part of the mystery of Sappho with insights from academics, translators, performers, and poets. Launching October 15th 2020. You can follow us on Twitter and Instagram @sweetbitterpod, or support us on Patreon.
Wrapping up season 2 of the podcast, we're joined by Vico Ortiz from HBOMax's Our Flag Means Death, with a cameo from Rebecca Simon! As always, you can find us on Twitter and Instagram @sweetbitterpod.You can support us on Patreon at patreon.com/sweetbitter -- where we are releasing bonus content covering OFMD
This episode, we discuss the Uskoks, but are they REALLY Pirates?Thank you to our guest this week, Wendy Bracewell. Our Pirate Shanty this week is written, performed & edited by Joshua Nelson. As always, you can find us on Twitter and Instagram @sweetbitterpod.You can support us on Patreon at patreon.com/sweetbitter.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy
This week is our second episode on the Black Atlantic.Thank you to our guests this week, Carole Weatherford, David Wright Falade & David Zoby. Our Pirate Shanty this week is written and performed & produced by Joshua Nelson.As always, you can find us on Twitter and Instagram @sweetbitterpod.You can support us on Patreon at patreon.com/sweetbitter.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy
This week is our first of two episodes on the Black Atlantic.Thank you to our guests this week, Jamie Goodall, Ryan Burns, Carole Weatherford and David Cecelski. Our Pirate Shanty this week is written and performed & produced by Joshua Nelson.As always, you can find us on Twitter and Instagram @sweetbitterpod.You can support us on Patreon at patreon.com/sweetbitter.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy
We spoke to Alex Barker about the Be More Pirate movement. As always, you can find us on Twitter and Instagram @sweetbitterpod.You can support us on Patreon at patreon.com/sweetbitter.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy
This week is our episode on the sex journals of Philip van Buskirk.Thank you to our guest this week, Matthew Knip. Our pirate shanty this week is written and performed by Alyse and performed & produced by Joshua Nelson.As always, you can find us on Twitter and Instagram @sweetbitterpod.You can support us on Patreon at patreon.com/sweetbitter.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy
This week is our episode on the history of Rum and pirates. Thank you to our guests this week, Antonio Sanna & Kelvin Uffre. Our pirate shanty this week is written and produced by Joshua Nelson.As always, you can find us on Twitter and Instagram @sweetbitterpod.You can support us on Patreon at patreon.com/sweetbitter.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy
This episode, we discuss the Irish Pirate Queen - Grace O'Malley.Thank you to our guests this week, Laura Duncombe, Ryan Burns and Anne Chambers. Our Pirate Shanty this week is by Alyse Knorr with engineering by Joshua Nelson. As always, you can find us on Twitter and Instagram @sweetbitterpod.You can support us on Patreon at patreon.com/sweetbitter.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy
This week we discuss the Inexorable sculpture.Thank you to our guest this week, Amanda Cotton. Our Pirate Shanty this week is written and performed by Alyse Knorr & produced by Joshua Nelson. As always, you can find us on Twitter and Instagram @sweetbitterpod.You can support us on Patreon at patreon.com/sweetbitter.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy
This episode, we discuss the infamous Anne Bonny & Mary Read.Thank you to our guests this week, Ryan Burns, Rebecca Simon and CJ Farley. Our Pirate Shanty this week is written and performed by Alyse Knorr & edited by Joshua Nelson. As always, you can find us on Twitter and Instagram @sweetbitterpod.You can support us on Patreon at patreon.com/sweetbitter.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy
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Post-season, the Sweetbitter team will be covering Our Flag Means Death (HBOMax) for our Apple subscriber and Patreon supporters but we wanted to share the first one with all of you!We hope you can join us next week for a Q&A with Vico Ortiz. You can buy tickets here.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy
This week is our episode on pirates in popular culture.Thank you to our guest this week: Rebecca Simon, Antonio Sanna, Jamie Goodall, Clint Jones and Natasha Sutton Williams. Our pirate shanty this week is written and performed & produced by Joshua Nelson.As always, you can find us on Twitter and Instagram @sweetbitterpod.You can support us on Patreon at patreon.com/sweetbitter.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy
This week we discuss the legendary Ching Shi and 20th Century Chinese Piracy.Thank you to our guests this week, Laura Duncombe and Jamie Goodall – and of course, our very own Alyse Knorr! Our Pirate Shanty this week is written and performed by Alyse Knorr & produced by Joshua Nelson.As always, you can find us on Twitter and Instagram @sweetbitterpod.You can support us on Patreon at patreon.com/sweetbitter.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy
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