In this episode we talk about:

• Female pirates
• Anne Bonny and Mary Read in the General History of the Pyrates
• The motif of “lesbian Bonny & Read”
• Bonny and Read in lesbian historical fiction
• Sources mentioned
  • Wikipedia entry: Women in Piracy
  • Women Pirates and the Politics of the Jolly Roger by Ulrike Klausmann, Marion Meinzerin, and Gabriel Kuhn
• This topic is discussed in one or more entries of the Lesbian Historic Motif Project here:
  • Anne Bonny
  • Mary Read
  • LHMP Entry #547 A General History of the Pyrates
• Works mentioned by Helen Rodriguez:
  • The History and Lives of Notorious Pirates (1735)
  • The Extraordinary Adventures and Daring Exploits of Captain Henry Morgan (1813)
  • The Naval History of the United States by Willis J. Abbott (1896)
  • The Buccaneers and their Reign of Terror by C.M. Stevens (1899)
  • The Homosexuality of Men and Women by Magnus Hirschfield (1920)
  • ”Anne Bonny & Mary Read: They Killed Pricks” by Susan Baker in The Furies: Lesbian/Feminist Monthly Vol. 1, issue 6 (August 1972)
  • Mistress of the Seas (novel) by John Carlova (1964)
  • Forgotten Women ed. By Nancy M[???] (couldn’t identify this book)
  • The Women Pirates (play) by Steve Gooch (
  • Mary Read, Buccaneer (novel) by Philip Rush (1945)
  • Beneath the Black Flag by David Cordingly
  • Kingston by Starlight (novel) by Christopher John Farley
  • Black Sails (tv series)
  • Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag (video game)
  • The Pirates of Neverland (video game)
  • Our Flag Means Death (tv series)
  • Hellcats (podcast fiction)

A transcript of this podcast is available here.

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