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**TLT (The Lesbian Talkshow)**

The Lesbian Talkshow is a podcast channel by and for queer women but all listeners are welcome.
We have different shows which we have separated as if they are each a different series. Series 11: Les Talk About It, Series 9: Ask A, Series 8: Les Do Books, Series 7: Radio Dramas and original full fiction, Series 6: Coming Out Stories, Series 4: Writing as a business related shows, Series 3: Book Clips (author readings), Series 1: Unusual Hobbies. Find Lesbians on Screen and The Lesbian Review podcasts on their own channels – just search for the titles in your preferred podcast app.

Latest Episodes:

Book Clips: Haunting Love by KA Moll (pt2) May 26, 2020

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Haunting Love by KA Moll

Book Clips

Welcome to Book Clips, the mini podcast where authors and narrators give you a taste of a book with a short snippet. In this episode we hear an excerpt from the audiobook for Haunting Love by KA Moll narrated by Emily Beresford

Synopsis

Anna Crestwood was raised in the strict beliefs of a religious sect that’s nestled in the foothills of the Smoky Mountains. She’s a lesbian with a ton of baggage, fearful, guilty, and alone. Few things would cause her to leave these familiar surroundings, the job offer of a lifetime being one of them.

So, against her better judgment, she packs her belongings and moves to the Land of Lincoln, a land without mountains, a land of corn fields, and soybeans. This event, traumatic as it was, would have been uneventful had her movers not been told to move a critical stone, a stone that blocked the fiery-breath of Hell, setting a dire chain of events in motion, and beginning the ultimate battle between good and evil.

Gabe Garst is a police officer, a powerful medium, and the daughter of Anna’s new landlord. Her work with juvenile delinquents and ghosts is all that keeps her going. Inside she’s dead, certain that her capacity to love is buried with her late wife, six feet under. Grieving, depressed, and alone, suicide seems like her best option.

When she stops by Anna’s to check out an electrical problem, she stumbles across hauntings; encounters a demon, old, dark, and dangerous; and senses the stirrings of mutual attraction. Unfortunately, both women must battle personal demons before anything can come of it.

And, they’ll wait almost too long.

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Ask A Conversion Therapy Survivor: The Cold Hard Facts About Conversion Therapy May 25, 2020

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The Cold Hard Facts About Conversion Therapy

Ask A Conversion Therapy Survivor episode 2 of 5

Join Sheena and her guests Rae D Magdon and Elena Joy as they talk about the realities of conversion therapy in this episode of Ask A Conversion Therapy Survivor

In this episode

The stats around suicide attempts for conversion therapy attendees
What’s happening with queer communities and queer youth
Legislations and what’s happening in the US Conversion therapy just doesn’t work and here’s why
How Rae D Magdon chose her pen name

Research from The Trevor Project

Where to go for help

UK contact Stonewall’s Information Service on 08000 502020 or email info@stonewall.org.uk
US http://www.nclrights.org/bornperfect-survivor-stories-and-survivor-network

About The Guests

Elana Joy

Elena is an inspirational speaker and founder of the PRIDE and Joy Foundation. She grew up in a turbulent home, joined a conservative church as a teenager, put herself through college, married and birthed 4 beautiful children, and then.... Life 2.0 brought a divorce, leaving/getting kicked out of her church, a beautiful love story and a successful new career! Her viral TEDx talk has paved the way for speaking engagements around the country. Audiences have included ABC, CBS and Fox news stations, the First Event in Boston, the Seacoast Wellness Series in New Hampshire, the THRIVE conference in Utah, as well as multiple print and online media stories, and podcasts.

Find Elena Online

https://twitter.com/ThurstonElena

https://www.facebook.com/ElenaJoyExperience/

https://www.elenajoyexperience.com/

https://www.prideandjoyfoundation.com/

Rae D Magdon

Rae is an author of queer speculative fiction with over 10 published novels. She believes that lesbian, bi, queer, and trans women deserve to have adventures, fall in love, and become heroes. Her latest cyberpunk novel, Lucky 7, won the 2019 Goldie and Rainbow Awards for science fiction.

Find Rae Online

http://twitter.com/RaeDMagdon

http://facebook.com/RaeDMagdon

http://raedmagdon.tumblr.com

http://raedmagdon.com

About Sheena

Sheena comes from a media background and in 2014 she started The Lesbian Review, a website dedicated to reviewing the best lesbian books and movies. In 2016 A podcast channel seemed like a natural progression and so she started The Lesbian Talkshow. Sheena discovered lesbian fiction in her late teens and it helped her with her coming out process, something for which she will always be grateful.

Les Do Books: The Possibility and the Promise with Radclyffe May 21, 2020

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The Possibility and the Promise with Radclyffe

Les Do Books

“Everything with me is a long story because I always back up to the beginning.”

* laughs* “No one will mind.”

This week, Tara sits down with Radclyffe (Love on the Night Shift) to talk about her personal history as a reader, a writer, and publisher of lesbian literature. Also, Tara asks a question she’s afraid she won’t like the answer to.

Topics and Works Discussed:

Beebo Brinker by Ann Bannon

The Latecomer by Sarah Aldridge

The Honor Series by Radclyffe

Tara is a reviewer for The Lesbian Review, find her favourite books here. The Lesbian Review is a website dedicated to bringing you the best in lesbian fiction, movies, TV, fanfic and music.

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Book Clips: Coming To Terms by KA Moll May 19, 2020

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Coming To Terms by KA Moll

Book Clips

Welcome to Book Clips, the mini podcast where authors and narrators give you a taste of a book with a short snippet. In this episode we hear the an excerpt from the audiobook for Coming To Terms by KA Moll narrated by Emily Beresford Synopsis

Synopsis

Coming to Terms tells the story of Sawyer James, a cop, angry and alone, an alcoholic. Sexually abused by her father when she was a child, she keeps secrets with her twin sister, and numbs past trauma with the bottle. When her twin is psychiatrically hospitalized, she’ll work with the hospital social worker, and in doing so, will be offered no choice but to deal with past horrors.

Sage Carson is a clinical social worker, a divorced woman who has no desire for a relationship, one man being enough for a lifetime. When she meets Sawyer, questions about her own sexuality will be awakened, and she’ll have no choice but to deal with them.

And, with this backdrop, as these two women begin a new relationship, Sawyer must perform at the top of her game, engaging in a desperate hunt for a serial rapist-murderer, a hunt that will become all too personal.

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Ask A Conversion Therapy Survivor: What is conversion therapy and why does it happen? May 18, 2020

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What is conversion therapy and why does it happen?

Ask A Conversion Therapy Survivor episode 1 of 5

Join Sheena and her guests Rae D Magdon and Elena Joy as they talk about what conversion therapy really is and why it happens.

In this episode:

What happened in Rae and Elena’s conversion therapy sessions
Why they were sent to conversion therapy
What it does losing your religion do to you
The kind of people who send their family to conversion therapy would surprise you
How educated people can justify doing this to their family

Research from The Trevor Project

Where to go for help

UK contact Stonewall’s Information Service on 08000 502020 or email info@stonewall.org.uk
US http://www.nclrights.org/bornperfect-survivor-stories-and-survivor-network

About The Guests

Elana Joy

Find Elena Online

https://twitter.com/ThurstonElena

https://www.facebook.com/ElenaJoyExperience/

https://www.elenajoyexperience.com/

https://www.prideandjoyfoundation.com/

Rae D Magdon

Find Rae Online

http://twitter.com/RaeDMagdon

http://facebook.com/RaeDMagdon

http://raedmagdon.tumblr.com

http://raedmagdon.com

About Sheena

Book Clips: Whispers Of The Heart by KA Moll May 05, 2020

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Whispers Of The Heart by KA Moll

Book Clips

Welcome to Book Clips, the mini podcast where authors and narrators give you a taste of a book with a short snippet. In this episode we hear the first chapter of the audiobook for Whispers Of The Heart by KA Moll narrated by Emily Beresford.

Synopsis

Days after completing her fellowship in pediatric ophthalmology, 35-year-old Aki Williams travels from her home in Los Angeles to a small town in Illinois, interviewing for a job that she doesn’t want. What she does want is to meet her biological sister, Jack Camdon, a sister whom she didn’t know existed until she dreamt of her. Upon their meeting, many things surprise her - that Jack’s a lesbian with a wife and children, that she’s a dreamer who dreams in spirit animals, and that she’s a medicine woman, deeply rooted in the Ojibwe culture.

Three years ago on Sunday, 43-year-old professor of archaeology Carsyn Lyndon lost her parents and her wife in a tragic accident. Since then, she’s suffered from PTSD and loneliness. She’s kind-hearted and handsome but dates no one. When she meets Aki at her four-year-old godson’s birthday party, they’re incredibly attracted to one another, and those feelings intensify during a family camping trip - a particularly interesting development for Aki, since prior to that, she’d never considered that she might be a lesbian.

As Aki comes to terms with her sexuality, Carsyn renews a vow to not make the same mistake twice - a mistake that had devastating consequences. With seemingly no middle ground, an accident will bring them together, forcing them to re-examine their priorities. But will love, even love at first sight, be enough for them to move forward as a couple?

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Les Do Books: Why Not? With Rae D. Magdon May 03, 2020

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Why Not? With Rae D. Magdon

Les Do Books

Tara is joined by Rae D. Magdon this week to talk fan fiction, bisexuality and what drives her to write speculative fiction. Rae is a prolific writer, with 11 novels and 10 novelettes featuring women loving other women, the latest of which is Fur and Fangs. Make sure you stay till the end where they are joined by a surprise celebrity guest!

Topics and Works Discussed:

The Best Entertainment by Rae D. Magdon (Mass Effect fan-fiction)
She-Ra and the Princesses of Power (Netflix) Noelle Stevenson (She-Ra Showrunner, creator of Lumberjanes)
Ask A Bisexual Podcast
The Tiger’s Daughter by K Arsenault Rivera
Compass Rose by Anna Burke
Thorn by Anna Burke
In the Silences by Rachel Gold

Tara is a reviewer for The Lesbian Review, find her favourite books here. The Lesbian Review is a website dedicated to bringing you the best in lesbian fiction, movies, TV, fanfic and music.

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Book Clips: Dare to Love by A. L. Brooks Apr 28, 2020

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Dare to Love by A. L. Brooks

Book Clips

Welcome to Book Clips, the mini podcast where authors and narrators give you a taste of a book with a short snippet. In this episode we hear the author doing a reading from Dare to Love by A. L. Brooks

Synopsis

Investment banker Ash Taylor left her cut-throat world to set up a cool, cutting-edge tattoo studio. Her love life's been a lot bumpier, though. Ever since a heart-breaking affair with a straight colleague, she's vowed to steer clear of women unsure of their sexuality.

Talent-agency executive Carmen Lyttleton is straight, career focused, and not prone to distraction from her occasional casual relationships. When her best friend gets a tattoo at Ash's studio, Carmen finds herself unexpectedly impressed by Ash and her business.

When they accidentally meet again, Carmen is shocked by the sparks between them and the realization that she feels a lot more than just admiration for Ash's work ethic. It can't possibly mean what it seems...can it?

The pull between the women is powerful but so are their fears, old baggage, and stubbornness. Can they dare to love?

Contains mature themes.

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Les Do Books: Hidden Histories with Paula Martinac Apr 24, 2020

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Hidden Histories with Paula Martinac

Les Do Books

This week, Tara sits down to talk historical fiction with author Paula Martinac (Clio Rising). As both an author and a reader, Paula is deeply interested in history and historical fiction, especially how it intersects with lesbian literature. Lesbian history is a hidden history, and through fiction we get the chance to see ourselves revealed in a world written by others. Some of Paula’s recommendations are YA. Others aren’t. They’re all historicals and they all have romantic aspects, but they’re not dedicated romances. After listening to Paula describe these books, you’ll end up with more on your list than you’d bargained for. Enjoy!

Paula Recommends:

Silhouette of a Sparrow by Molly Beth Griffin

Two Wings to Fly Away by Penny Mickelbury

White Houses by Amy Bloom

She Rises by Kate Worsley

An Impossible Distance to Fall by Miriam McNamara

The Best Bad Things by Katrina Carrasco

Tara is a reviewer for The Lesbian Review, find her favourite books here. The Lesbian Review is a website dedicated to bringing you the best in lesbian fiction, movies, TV, fanfic and music.

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Book Clips: Back To The Start by Monica McCallan Apr 21, 2020

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Back To The Start by Monica McCallan

Book Clips

Welcome to Book Clips, the mini podcast where authors and narrators give you a taste of a book with a short snippet. In this episode we hear a reading from the author of Back To The Start by Monica McCallan

Synopsis

When Remy’s grandmother dies, it means leaving her life in San Francisco and returning to a town she swore she'd never revisit, forced to confront a world she'd worked hard to put behind her over the last twelve years.
She's not expecting that the first girl to ever steal her heart, the pretty, popular Fallon Lewis is still around, and in a town this small, their paths continue to cross much to Remy’s dismay. It's hard enough seeing her first love, but it's exponentially more difficult when she can barely stand to look at the woman.
Remy's trip back has the possibility to open up doors she believed were shut long ago, but she's never planned on staying, and she definitely never planned on letting Fallon back into her life.
If she thought being a teenager in a small town was hard, she's about to find out how much harder life is when there's no one but herself to blame for her problems.

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