Ryen and Megan get together to yet again discuss another queer person with an astrological sign: this time Megan talks about the life and times of working class, transgender activist Leslie Feinberg whose novel Stone Butch Blues was a breakthrough moment in trans masc visibility, and whose tireless dedication to progressive causes was barely slowed down, despite being diagnosed with Lyme Disease.

CW: homophobia, transphobia

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Feinberg, L. (1993). Stone Butch Blues. Alyson Pubns.

Feinberg, L. (1996). Transgender Warriors: Making History from Joan of Arc to Dennis Rodman. Beacon Press.

Feinberg, L. Leslie Feinberg. https://www.lesliefeinberg.net.

Feinberg, L. Transgender Warrior. https://transgenderwarrior.org.

Pratt, M.B. Minnie Bruce Pratt. minniebrucepratt.net. https://minniebrucepratt.net/about/

Pratt, Minnie Bruce (November 18, 2014). “Leslie Feinberg – A communist who revolutionized transgender rights”. Archived from the original on December 2, 2014. Retrieved February 17, 2015.

Tyroler, Jamie (July 28, 2006). “Transmissions – Interview with Leslie Feinberg”. CampCK.com. Archived from the original on November 23, 2014. Retrieved November 17, 2014.

UCLA Film & Television Archive. (2017, May 13). In the Life:Interview with Kate Bornstein, Leslie Feinberg [unedited footage] [Video]. Youtube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_Aqmaq_a2U

Weber, Bruce (November 25, 2014). “Leslie Feinberg, Writer and Transgender Activist, Dies at 65”. New York Times. Archived from the original on March 28, 2019. Retrieved February 17, 2015.

*EDIT* OOPS! I played with your hearts and somehow managed to upload an incomplete file. The full episode is now live. My apologies! Now you can truly learn about our next dark goddess: Lilith. Enjoy!

In their second installment focusing on dark goddesses, Megan tells Shannon about Sumerian, Babylonian and Hebrew goddess, Lilith, long vilified as the she-demon, and "snake-like temptress" first wife of Adam in Biblical lore whose reputation has evolved as a patron goddess of women, femmes and queer folx when it comes to equal rights body and sovereignty.

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BEN SIRA, ALPHABET OF JewishEncyclopedia.com".⁠ www.jewishencyclopedia.com. Retrieved 23 June 2022.Raymond Buckland⁠, The Witch Book, Visible Ink Press, 1 November 2001.

Fortune, Dion. ⁠Psychic Self-Defence⁠. Weiser Books. pp. 126–128. ⁠ISBN⁠ ⁠9781609254643⁠.

Lesses, Rebecca (2001). "Exe(o)rcising Power: Women as Sorceresses, Exorcists, and Demonesses in Babylonian Jewish Society of Late Antiquity". Journal of the American Academy of Religion. 69 (2): 343 375.

Lilith-The First Eve".⁠ Imbolc. 2002. ⁠Archived⁠ from the original on 26 February 2007. Retrieved 23 January 2007.Mcdonald, Beth E. (2009). "In Possession Of The Night: Lilith As Goddess, Demon, Vampire". Sacred Tropes: Tanakh, New Testament, and Qur'an as Literature and Culture. Brill: 173–182.

Valiente, D. (1973). An ABC of Witchcraft past and present.

We all want a sigil for Lilith". Archived from the original on7 April 2012.

In celebration of Cancer sun sign Dolly Wilde, Megan and Ryen meet up as Megan takes us through the story of Oscar Wilde's vivacious, troubled queer flapper niece - a woman for whom, a friend once said drama spun - "like crows around a bell tower." Listen and find out more about Dolly Wilde's That's So Raven life!

CW: suicide, self-harm, cancer (breast cancer)

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Pfeffer, Leigh (Host) and Jones, Gretchen (Host). (2018, November 6). Girls Gone Wilde (No.18) [Audio podcast episode]. History Is Gay. https://www.historyisgaypodcast.com/

Schenkar, Joan. Truly Wilde: The Unsettling Story of Dolly Wilde, Oscar’s Unusual Niece. Virago. 2000. Beside Every Man. "When Dolly Wilde Met Zelda Fitzgerald". https://eafitzsimons.wordpress.com. Retrieved July 11, 2026.