Femme theory, bisexual butches, racy footnotes – the brand-new edited collection Queering Desire has it all. The brilliant editors, Róisín Ryan-Flood and Amy Tooth Murphy, join me for a chat about  what the book means to them and how challenging and rewarding interdisciplinary research on lesbians and sapphics can be. They dive into the multi-faceted contributions and how they matter to queer culture today and also generously share their personal experience in collecting the many gems that make up Queering Desire. Follow @roisinryanflood and @queerlitpodcast on Instagram to learn more! References: Holding Hands: Experiences of shame, pride and protest among LGBT relationship partners Centre for Intimate and Sexual Citizenship https://www.essex.ac.uk/centres-and-institutes/intimate-and-sexual-citizenship Notches Esther Newton Sally Munt Anne Lister Les Feinberg Billie Eilish Charli XCX Eleanor Medhurst Sarah Joy Ford Susan Stryker Rosalind Gill Kimberley Mather Mie Astrup Jensen El. Reid-Buckley Phoebe Kisubi Mbasalaki Liz Millward Marie Lou Duret Prudence Bussey-Chamberlain # Ken Plummer Agnes Ella Ben Hagai Dominique Adams-Santos Skala Eressos Sappho Sadie Lee Libro Levi Bridgeman’s The Butch Monologues Jack Halberstam’s Female Masculinities Ladies of Llangollen José Esteban Muñoz K. Allison Hammer Gay’s The Word Esther Newton’s My Butch Career Boots of Leather, Slippers of Gold Patricia Highsmith’s Carol (The Price of Salt) The Talented Mr Ripley Andrew Scott Alfred Hitchcock Strangers on a Train Lillian Faderman’s Surpassing the Love of Men Grace Ellis’ Flung out of Space   Questions you should be able to respond to after listening:      The editors speak a lot about interdisciplinarity and their respective backgrounds in the humanities and in sociology. Which challenges and benefits of working across disciplines do they mention? Can you think of others?     Another important thread is queerness across different generations. How do you experience queer kinship across generations? What do you think the term ‘queer lineage’ might mean?     What might femme theory be? Please look up the term and see what you find.     What do the editors say about online and physical queer space?     Which essay of Queering Desire are you going to read first and why?