yes, medieval nuns wrote erotic lesbian poetry feat. yen

About this episode

This episode explores the erotic and romantic writings of medieval lesbian nuns with guest Yen from the Cherry Letter Club.

Medieval lesbian nuns??? It's my Catholic sapphic Super Bowl! Yen from the Cherry Letter Club joins the pod this week to share three incredible and historically accurate stories of sapphic nuns during the medieval times. Not only do we have evidence that these women were queer, but we have their real writings: and gasp! they're erotic and romantic as hell! History nerds you're going to like this ep. Cherry Letter Club Youtube Patreon

People in this episode

Host: gasp! the pod

Guest: Yen

Topics covered

• medieval nuns
• lesbian poetry
• sapphic history
• queer literature
• erotic writings

Keywords

• medieval
• lesbian
• nuns
• poetry
• sapphic
• history
• erotic

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Cherry Letter Club

Books & works: Catholic sapphic Super Bowl

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