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The Scots language didn’t have much of an LGBTQ+ lexicon. So writer and performer Dr Harry Josephine Giles decided to create one.
Read more about Josie’s work on the LGBTQ+ lexicon, including a lot more terms, at bit.ly/lgbtscots.
There are some previous Allusionist episodes that go alongside this episode, including:
Oot in the Open, about the Scots language, oppressed for hundreds of years and even people of my generation were beaten at school for using it.
Queer, about the changing usage of the word ‘queer’.
Two Or More, covering a turbulent 70 years of the word ‘bisexual’.
And for Pride month, there’s this early episode about the choice of the word ‘pride’.
YOUR RANDOMLY SELECTED WORD FROM THE DICTIONARY:
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CREDITS:
Dr Harry Josephine Giles is a writer and performer, and has a new poetry album Guddle out at harryjosiegiles.bandcamp.com/album/guddle, which includes this poem if you want to hear some of the sexual Scots language in use! Find Josie @harryjosiegiles on Twitter, Instagram and Patreon.
The Allusionist music is by Martin Austwick. Download his songs at palebirdmusic.com and listen to his new podcast Year of the Bird about the songs he writes.
This episode was produced by me, Helen Zaltzman. Thanks to Ian Steadman.
Find the show at twitter.com/allusionistshow, facebook.com/allusionistshow, twitter.com/helenzaltzman and instagram.com/allusionistshow.
I’ve donated 50% of the revenue from this episode to the Exist Loudly Fund to Support Queer Black Young People, the Okra Project, the Marsha P. Johnson Institute, the Trevor Project, akt and Mermaids UK.
