Thoroughly enjoyed that. Yabbering on about issues of deep political and personal impact. (Ive just realised you could both be my daughters. ( Julie at á pinch )) that’s how long I’ve been around- yet we could be around the same table. Today’s lesbian experience is nothing I could’ve imagined. It’s perhaps time for a new cycle of consciousness raising groups. The early version of podcasts and zoom gatherings ( but more visceral). I will be back for more of this, yearning to participate
Lovely. Like a chat down the pub with mates. I’m a LOL (late onset lesbian). Switched in my mid-fifties and not because I had rubbish sex with men (2 long-term relationships with men). It was the realisation I’m more romantically connected to women. I don’t really analyse it much as I just accept my feelings changed course. I used to hate peanut butter but love it now!
Really enjoyed this. It’s so lovely to be able to have a sense of humour again in all the madness. I turned over the rock to understand what it was JKR and KS said that was (and turns out isn’t) hateful, and since then seem to not be able to turn without sex and genitalia in my face. Well not literally, but it’s certainly been an education that I wasn’t looking for. Really looking forward to enjoying more of these conversations that remind me it’s not all doom and gloom out there and we are allowed to lighten the mood with a laugh sometimes. Thanks both of you for setting this up. You should invite Graham linehan on. That could be a laugh and also possibly increase your subscribers? 😆.
First, Desert Hearts has a happy ending, both the book and the novel. Second the absolute best part of this brilliant conversation was Julie's point about what is relevant at work, I would much prefer a world where pronouns & sex life were irrelevant at work. (Can you show up on time and do your job without banging on about your imagined oppression, You're hired.) Finally, thank you for a thoroughly thought provoking and entertaining podcast. This and my subscription to LC certainly improve the amount of 'real' Lesbian content in my life.
Great first podcast! Thanks ladies :) Love the fact you don't always agree with each other and even though I don't always agree with you, it gives me lots of good food for thought. Looking forward to seeing these podcasts evolve.
So glad I found you. A couple of years ago Julie stopped me from going mad when I discovered her on Twitter and took strength and heart from her comments about male violence which I’ve been railing against all my life. As a ‘Johnny come lately’ lesbian I’m thinking it’s becoming difficult (once again! ) to meet and commune with other women without harassment and larpers .
That was loads of fun. Thanks both. Julie's description of late-onset lesbianism resonated heavily with me bar the fact that my relationships with men in my twenties did include both love and good sex - though I always knew I was attracted to women. When I emerged from those relationships at thirty and finally started dating women, there was no way back. Men disappeared completely from both my sexual and romantic imagination. It's taken me a few years since then to describe myself as a lesbian - I wrestled with the identity politics of it - but I couldn't be happier with that part of myself, even if the dating apps are a hellscape of epic proportions (I'm thirty-five and my generation are all ENM, 'queer' or trans-identified)...
I've been looking forward to this for so long and I wasn't disappointed. I love how strong your friendship is, one which allows you to disagree without screeching BIGOT at each other. A lot of people could learn a lot form this. BTW, I belly laughed at the Dyke Project being your tribute band. They wish!!!❤️
This was lovely. Makes me realise how hard it is to just have lesbian only interactions, nice “fireside” chat :) I’ll look forward to more as we go into the hot Adelaide summer!
Really enjoyed this, so relaxed and such good camaraderie. Would love it if you could also provide transcripts, going forward. There were so many good, well-phrased observations that my note-taking couldn’t keep up. Here are just a couple of the ones I sort of got down: from KS: “off the shelf activism” and from JB: “They romanticize oppression.” Also, on that part of the discussion, I found this article very interesting, and wonder whether anyone here has encountered what is described here on campuses: “The Decolonization Narrative Is Dangerous and False” https://archive.ph/DBnzw#selection-573.0-573.51
I'm really curious to hear about Julie's undercover conversion therapy experience that was mentioned, do you have an episode where you discuss it? You don't seem to cover it in Episode 2 based on the description.
Listened to this debut discussion after becoming a subscriber in April 2024. Laughed out loud at the discussion of asexuality as framed by Stonewall. If we are not to assume that asexuals don't have sex, are we to assume that sometimes they have sex not because they experience sexual attraction, but only because they drank too much in the presence of someone who did want to have sex? (Didn't many of us do that when young?) Related, I had sex with a woman named Pan (Pandora); am I a pansexual?
Oh, the endless self-importance! Deeply worthy of mocking; thanks for the fun.
Thoroughly enjoyed that. Yabbering on about issues of deep political and personal impact. (Ive just realised you could both be my daughters. ( Julie at á pinch )) that’s how long I’ve been around- yet we could be around the same table. Today’s lesbian experience is nothing I could’ve imagined. It’s perhaps time for a new cycle of consciousness raising groups. The early version of podcasts and zoom gatherings ( but more visceral). I will be back for more of this, yearning to participate
thank you so much!
Lovely. Like a chat down the pub with mates. I’m a LOL (late onset lesbian). Switched in my mid-fifties and not because I had rubbish sex with men (2 long-term relationships with men). It was the realisation I’m more romantically connected to women. I don’t really analyse it much as I just accept my feelings changed course. I used to hate peanut butter but love it now!
Thank you - glad you enjoyed it!
Lezbollah! Love it.
I loved that too!
Really enjoying this. Found myself arguing with you at one point and had to remember you couldn't hear me!
Really enjoyed this. It’s so lovely to be able to have a sense of humour again in all the madness. I turned over the rock to understand what it was JKR and KS said that was (and turns out isn’t) hateful, and since then seem to not be able to turn without sex and genitalia in my face. Well not literally, but it’s certainly been an education that I wasn’t looking for. Really looking forward to enjoying more of these conversations that remind me it’s not all doom and gloom out there and we are allowed to lighten the mood with a laugh sometimes. Thanks both of you for setting this up. You should invite Graham linehan on. That could be a laugh and also possibly increase your subscribers? 😆.
Realise of course not great to suggest a man as the first guest on the lesbian project. Hopefully caused more smiles than grimaces though. 😊😇
Nice listen… would love to hear more on Late in lifers.
"Late-onset lesbian" someone else said. 😂
First, Desert Hearts has a happy ending, both the book and the novel. Second the absolute best part of this brilliant conversation was Julie's point about what is relevant at work, I would much prefer a world where pronouns & sex life were irrelevant at work. (Can you show up on time and do your job without banging on about your imagined oppression, You're hired.) Finally, thank you for a thoroughly thought provoking and entertaining podcast. This and my subscription to LC certainly improve the amount of 'real' Lesbian content in my life.
Great first podcast! Thanks ladies :) Love the fact you don't always agree with each other and even though I don't always agree with you, it gives me lots of good food for thought. Looking forward to seeing these podcasts evolve.
So glad I found you. A couple of years ago Julie stopped me from going mad when I discovered her on Twitter and took strength and heart from her comments about male violence which I’ve been railing against all my life. As a ‘Johnny come lately’ lesbian I’m thinking it’s becoming difficult (once again! ) to meet and commune with other women without harassment and larpers .
I look forward to the next podcast.
That was loads of fun. Thanks both. Julie's description of late-onset lesbianism resonated heavily with me bar the fact that my relationships with men in my twenties did include both love and good sex - though I always knew I was attracted to women. When I emerged from those relationships at thirty and finally started dating women, there was no way back. Men disappeared completely from both my sexual and romantic imagination. It's taken me a few years since then to describe myself as a lesbian - I wrestled with the identity politics of it - but I couldn't be happier with that part of myself, even if the dating apps are a hellscape of epic proportions (I'm thirty-five and my generation are all ENM, 'queer' or trans-identified)...
I enjoyed the podcast. Wish we could invite both of you to join us and a few of our friends for dinner and a rave.
I've been looking forward to this for so long and I wasn't disappointed. I love how strong your friendship is, one which allows you to disagree without screeching BIGOT at each other. A lot of people could learn a lot form this. BTW, I belly laughed at the Dyke Project being your tribute band. They wish!!!❤️
This was lovely. Makes me realise how hard it is to just have lesbian only interactions, nice “fireside” chat :) I’ll look forward to more as we go into the hot Adelaide summer!
Also, I appreciate video and audio, thank you.
Glad to know there is a sister in Adelaide.
Likewise :)
Really enjoyed this, so relaxed and such good camaraderie. Would love it if you could also provide transcripts, going forward. There were so many good, well-phrased observations that my note-taking couldn’t keep up. Here are just a couple of the ones I sort of got down: from KS: “off the shelf activism” and from JB: “They romanticize oppression.” Also, on that part of the discussion, I found this article very interesting, and wonder whether anyone here has encountered what is described here on campuses: “The Decolonization Narrative Is Dangerous and False” https://archive.ph/DBnzw#selection-573.0-573.51
I'm really curious to hear about Julie's undercover conversion therapy experience that was mentioned, do you have an episode where you discuss it? You don't seem to cover it in Episode 2 based on the description.
Listened to this debut discussion after becoming a subscriber in April 2024. Laughed out loud at the discussion of asexuality as framed by Stonewall. If we are not to assume that asexuals don't have sex, are we to assume that sometimes they have sex not because they experience sexual attraction, but only because they drank too much in the presence of someone who did want to have sex? (Didn't many of us do that when young?) Related, I had sex with a woman named Pan (Pandora); am I a pansexual?
Oh, the endless self-importance! Deeply worthy of mocking; thanks for the fun.