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5 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 3 years ago -Public historian and amateur daydrinker walks you through areas of historical interest, from midcentury gay pulp fiction to ancient Roman stress dreams. Commission an episode on the topic of your choice (or the topic of *my* choice) for $20 at Ko-fi.com/skazka.
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Episode 5: Episode Five: Late Medieval Menswear
May 06, 2021 00:00 - 55 minutes - 38.4 MBThis episode Ska gets sober and gets cozy, talking about how old tyme Western European dudes kept themselves from showing their junk off in church. Episode commissioned by adreadfulidea @ Tumblr -- commission your own at ko-fi.com/skazka! Highlights include: rich colors; thrifty diagrams; mixing fibers; keeping warm in a colder climate; silly little hats; a depressing tangent about the disenfranchisement of marginalized persons in Renaissance Florence. Recommended Reading: - Nin...
Episode 4: Episode Four: Gay Pulp
February 08, 2021 00:00 - 30 minutes - 21.3 MBThis week Ska chats about the rise and fall of 20th century gay pulp fiction. Highlights include: the strange and curious twilight world of postwar publishing; dubious butches; E.M. Forster; Ed Wood, Jr.; gay detectives; gay housemasters; gay cowboys; gay whores; gay girls; gay psychos; gay brothers; gay awakenings; Fire Island. Reading recs: - 1960s Gay Pulp Fiction: The Misplaced Heritage, ed. Drewey Wayne Gunn & Jaime Harker - Pulp Friction: Uncovering The Golden Age Of Gay Mal...
Episode 3: Episode Three: Romantic Poets
February 01, 2021 00:00 - 36 minutes - 25.3 MBI get zooted and tell you every single thing I know about several romantic poets. Topics include: vintage free love; spectral artistic control; obligatory sex on your mother's grave; a great band name; sotadic zones; several compelling reasons not to quit your day job. I bend over backwards not to have to pronounce the name "Bysshe". (This episode contains some very brief mentions of sexual assault/shit sexual ethics in the Lord Byron section and some talk about terminal illness...
Episode 1: Episode One: Jacobean Drama
January 31, 2021 00:00 - 32 minutes - 22.4 MBIn this installment of my quarantine lecture series: Skazka gets lightly toasted and discusses English Renaissance drama and its subgenres at length. Topics include: pants on fire; wax hands; a hot butch with a lute; extremely non-union stage employment. Commissioned by Mira of the blog For The Gothic Heroine. Further reading: - “The Case of Moll Frith”, Natasha Korda - Jacobean Public Theatre - Alexand Leggatt - Jacobean Private Theatre - Keith Burgess - Jacobean Drama - David Far...
Episode 2: Episode Two: Roman Gossip
January 31, 2021 00:00 - 1 hour - 42.6 MBSkazka has officially one canned cocktail too many and discusses salacious Roman gossip and its uses. At length. Episode commissioned by NoxElementalist. Topics include: rhetorical uses of bullshit; bygone effeminate gestures; throwing rocks at your enemy’s clitoris; how one vomits into a toga. Special guest star: the velvet-voiced allons_donc as the voice of Cicero. More reading: • The Garden Of Priapus: Sexuality & Aggression In Roman Humor, Amy Richlin • “Mark Antony’s Assault o...