This week's episode is on the West African soldiers known as the Agojie, sometimes called the Dahomey Amazons. Join us to hear about how women became the backbone of the Dahomean army, a very dubious cocktail recipe, and not one but two kinds of same-sex marriage!
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[Image: drawing of Agojie Seh-Dong-Hong-Be by Frederick Forbes, 1851]
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Rosa Bonheur
Henrietta Bingham
Josephine Baker
Michael Dillon
Queer women in medieval Arab literature
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Yoshiya Nobuko
Gad Beck
Queer Love in Early Chinese History
Vaslav Nijinsky
Charity Bryant and Sylvia Drake
Anne Lister
Julie D'Aubigny
Captain Moonlite - Part 2
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