#General Galehot

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Self-indulgent comic of my fanfic? On my blog?  It’s more likely than you think.

The Errant Knight

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🌈 LGBTQIA+ Arthuriana in academia

it’s technically not pride month where i live, but aaaahhh i still love talking about this topic, so here’s some queer - or queer-adjacent - Arthurian articles i’ve stumbled across over the last few years 

general heads up that a) I haven’t read all of these, b) some of them definitely handle the topic better than others, and c) as you might expect these aren’t always safe-for-work!

(under the cut bc WOW this got long)  ❤️💛💚💙💜

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

The Perverse Dynamics of "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight" by Gail Ashton

A Kiss Is Just a Kiss: Heterosexuality and Its Consolations in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight by Carolyn Dinshaw

Sodomy, Misogyny, and Displacement: Occluding Queer Desire in "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight" by David L. Boyd

Getting Medieval: Pulp Fiction, Gawain, Foucault by Carolyn Dinshaw (chapter in a book)

On Lesbian and Gay/Queer Medieval Studies by David Lorenzo Boyd

A Queer World: Feminine Subversions of Chivalric Homosocial Normativity by Jessica Pitts (someone’s masters thesis...im shameless sorry)

Lancelot stories

The Monstrous and the Queer (medieval studies blog, post by Jeffrey Cohen)

The Prose "Lancelot's" Galehot, Malory's Lavain, and the Queering of Late Medieval Literature by Gretchen Mieszkowski

Male Same-Sex Desire in the Romances of de Troyes by Basil A. Clark

'You Could Shame the Great Arthur Himself': A Queer Reading of Lancelot from BBC's "Merlin" with Respect to the Character in Malory, White, and Bradley by Joseph Brennan

Refashioning Courtly Love: Lancelot as Ladies’ Man or Lady/Man? by E. Jane Burns (...yeah, that title...i know)

Tristan stories

Bodies That Don’t Matter: Heterosexuality before Heterosexuality in Gottfriend’s Tristan by James A. Schultz

Between Knights: Triangular Desire and Sir Palomides in Sir Thomas Malory's "The Book of Sir Tristram de Lyones" by Olga Burakov Mongan

Grail stories

'A Mayde, and Last of Youre Blood': Galahad's Asexuality and its Significance in "Le Morte Darthur" by Megan Arkenberg

The Writable Lesbian and Lesbian Desire in Malory’s Morte DArthur by Kathleen Coyne Kelly

Chaste Subjects: Gender, Heroism, and Desire in the Grail Quest by Peggy Mccracken

Queer Fisher King: Castration as a Site of Queer Representation ("Perceval, Stabat Mater, The City of God") by Anna Roberts

Sodomy, Masculinity, and Law in Medieval Literature: France and England, 1050–1230 by William Burgwinkle (book - has a chapter that deals with one of the Perceval continuations!!)

Roman de Silence

The Third Path: Alternative Sex, Alternative Gender in "Le Roman de Silence" by Elizabeth A. Waters

The Importance of Being Gender 'Stable': Masculinity and Feminine Empowerment in "Le Roman de Silence" by Lorraine Kochanske Stock

Queering Gender and Naturalizing Class in the "Roman de Silence" by Robert L.A. Clark

Lesbian Desire in the Old French "Roman de Silence" by Kathleen M. Blumreich

General medieval

Eleanor Janega’s stuff as a starting point on medieval sexuality: That’s not what sodomy is, but OK, The History of Penis in Vagina as Default Sex, Considering bad motherfuckers: Hildegard of Bingen and Janelle Monáe, The Medieval Podcast – Medieval Sexuality 

Heterosexuality as a Threat to Medieval Studies by James A. Schultz

Crossing Disciplinary Boundaries: A Cross-Cultural Approach to Same-Sex Love Between Women by Sahar Amer (this is part of a larger book!!)

Befriending the Medieval Queer: A Pedagogy for Literature Classes by Richard E. Zeikowitz

Queering the Medieval by Glenn Burger and Steven F. Kruger (book)

Same-Sex Love and Desire Among Medieval Women by Francesca Canadé-Sautman and Pamela Sheingorn (weird stuff when u try google it...no idea what’s going on there...published 2090...written by NA...?????)

uuuhhmm only a handful of these are open-access im sorry 😔😔 but often u can still find part or all of them online if u dig (or feel free to hmu if u want me to try share a pdf, rip)

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academic articles about queer arthuriana for @intersex-ionality and @gawain-in-green

okay first up i’m not an arthurian specialist, i mostly do medieval irish material, also this is heavily skewed towards medieval french arthurian material with some english influences -- not welsh material (sorry), and not other continental material generally. just bc i did medieval french more than i did anything else, and i did a bit of middle english but i know more about lancelot and chrétien than about malory so yeah

this is a very incomplete list but it’s stuff i have references to (in past essays, or because i have a photocopy of it in a folder somewhere). if i were not so fucking disorganised i would be able to give you so many more but i am a disaster, so.

not all of this stuff is like... directly about queer readings, but it feeds into queer theory (e.g. looking at non-normative expressions of sexuality, construction of gender and so on). also strong emphasis on things that overlap with the supernatural, monster theory, that kind of stuff, because that’s just what i’m interested in

* ‘the armour of an alienating identity’ by jeffrey jerome cohen and the members of interscripta, in arthuriana vol. 6, no. 4 (winter 1996) -- has some good shit, it’s cohen so it’s kinda dense but i found it interesting

* ‘masoch/lancelotism’ by jeffrey jerome cohen in new literary history vol. 28, no. 2 (spring 1997) -- all about the fact that lancelot is the original masochist, some interesting explorations here, again it’s ... dense (why cohen, why)

* ‘the prose “lancelot”‘s galehot, malory’s lavain, and the queering of late medieval literature” by gretchen mieszkowski in arthuriana vol. 5, no. 1 (spring 1995) -- this RUINED MY LIFE, if you want to have feelings about lancelot-galehaut then read this one, i will never be over it

* there is another Extremely Gay article about lancelot/galehaut and i think it is from the book of giants: sex, monsters and the middle ages by jeffrey jerome cohen (who is like half this list)... it made me cry. i think it’s that chapter that  @finnlongman posted a couple of excerpts of here

sidenote: i do really rate cohen’s work but omg he’s like... dense af sometimes. his prose isn’t quite judith butler levels of incomprehensible but HE’S NOT FAR OFF. so just be warned about that. you settle into it, it starts making sense after a while, but ... he should use shorter words.

other books that might be interesting, though they don’t deal exclusively/directly with arthurian material:

* monsters, gender and sexuality in medieval english literature by dana m. oswald includes some arthurian material and looks at the differences between old english and middle english material with regard to sex and also monsters woo. we love a monster.

* sodomy, masculinity and law in medieval french literature: france and england 1050 to 1230 by william burgwinkle for some french stuff. don’t think there’s much that’s directly arthurian, but there’s some stuff about marie de france, so that’s kinda tangentially related

* constructing medieval sexuality ed. by karma lochrie, peggy mccracken, james a. schultz (lots of interesting chapters in this one exploring different aspects of sexuality in a medieval context)

also not arthuriana but like. while we’re here:

* ‘“for to be sworne bretheren til they deye”: satirizing queer brotherhood in the chaucerian corpus’ by tison pugh in the chaucer review, vol. 43, no. 3 (2009) has some interesting things to say about the whole idea of oaths of brotherhood within a queer framework/interpretation

* between medieval men: male friendship and desire in early medieval literature by david clark deals primarily with old english / germanic material, so substantially less useful for arthuriana but some useful (?) approaches to queer readings of medieval texts

* sexuality in medieval europe: doing unto others by ruth mazo karras was an interesting read... frustrating for me because of karras’s failure to engage with irish material at all and how poorly defined ‘europe’ was within this book (what does ‘medieval europe’ even MEAN? way too broad), but far from useless re: how sexuality was understood in a historical context so with caveats, would rec

* ‘heroes and their pals’ in one hundred years of homosexuality and other essays on greek love by david m. halperin offers a paradigm for looking at heroic / warrior relationships like achilles/patroclus etc, which can also be explored in the context of medieval material

anyway this is not nearly as complete or arthurian-specific as i’d hoped it would be because it turned out! i keep shitty notes! and i am astonishingly disorganised in how i keep track of this kind of thing! sorry. i tried. there was an attempt.

but i have a few followers who may be able to help, so @ all of youse, pls share your favourite articles on queer arthurian stuff, thank

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General Kenobi and his men are in a losing fight for control over a Kyber crystal mine on the recently discovered planet of Eithuad. However, Galehot, General of the Eithuad forces, stops in mid-battle and concedes, submitting his men to the Republic and pledging his loyalty. Despite the oddity of the encounter, Obi-Wan accepts the surrender, but things take a turn for the worse...an ambush leaves them both stranded. Obi-Wan and Galehot must survive the wilderness alone and get back to Coruscant.

So I posted my first star wars fic! It may not be everyone’s cup of tea (there’s a lot of original worldbuilding and an OC). 

Basically Obi-Wan gets his own Galehot, an enemy who suddenly pledges loyalty to him in the middle of battle!