I'm finally back with a new episode after a long pause due to some personal setbacks and dealing with grief. In this first episode of 2026, I am joined by best friend since high school, Shannon. Enjoy getting back into the swing of things with our shared enthusiasm for witchin' weirdin' and wooin'.

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While Dark Habits' notable-queer-people-with-star-signs is rather behind, this episode comes just in time for Spooky Season! Megan is once again joined by Thomas from their other podcast about queer history, These Old Queers, to talk about lesbian literary pioneer, paranormal investigator and (disappointingly) fascist sympathizer - Radclyffe Hall.

Sources:

Matsuo, Alex. Women of the Paranormal Volume 1: A Brief History. Independently published. 10 June 2023.

Anderson, Hephzibah. “The Well of Loneliness: The book that could corrupt a nation.” www.bbc.com. 22 November 2022.https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20221121-the-well-of-loneliness-the-most-corrosive-book-ever

Goodreads. “Radclyffe Hall”. www.goodreads.com.https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/74248.Radclyffe_Hall

The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica. “Radclyffe Hall.” www.britannica.com. 8 August 2025, 2025.https://www.britannica.com/biography/Radclyffe-Hall

The National Archives. “The Story of Radclyffe Hall.” www.beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk.https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/explore-the-collection/stories/radclyffe-hall/

Megan is joined by Thomas from their other podcast about queer history, These Old Queers, to talk about the life and times of queer Panamanian boxer, Panama Al Brown.

Sources:

Corpus, Jose. Black Ink. Iowa City, Iowa. Win By Ko Publications. 1 August 2016.

El Tecolote Staff. “Black, Gay and Undocumented: The story of boxing’s first Latino Champion.” El Tecolote. 11 March 2021. https://eltecolote.org/content/en/black-gay-and-undocumented-the-story-of-boxings-first-latino-champion/

Frantzen, Allen. “The Gay Boxer in History: Al Panama Brown.” allenfrantzen.substack.com. 7 April 2023.

https://allenfrantzen.substack.com/p/the-gay-boxer-in-history-al-panama

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