Circling Back to Traub

Sunday, April 19, 2026 - 11:01 The Lesbian Historic Motif Project I frequently comment on the somewhat chaotic order in which I encounter material for the Project. The closest I come to any deliberate program is when I seek out (or prioritize) publications on a topic I want to cover in the podcast. So it's often happened that, after blogging a book, I find myself encountering the author's earlier work that went into that book. Sometimes I'll write a post that's pretty much just a pointer to the more previous blog (Or, conversely, I'll be covering a book where I've already covered articles that returned as chapters, with a pointer in the other direction.) But it's also the case that I tend to blog articles in more detail than books. So re-encountering the material as a separate article is a chance to dig a little deeper, or to comment from angles that are informed by reading I've done in the mean time. In the current tranche of articles I have lined up to post, there are a couple of…