Nun Pod With Left Grief

Claire Beans and Han Koehle

Tamsyn Muir's Locked Tomb series (so far, Gideon the Ninth, Harrow the Ninth, and Nona the Ninth) offers a rich, humorous look at power, agency, and relationship under empire. Join Claire Beans (she/they), Han Koehle (any pronouns), and guests as we reread the Locked Tomb series chapter by chapter, analyzing Muir's universe and characters and connecting them to the real world through theory and fandom. Spoilers will be spoilt.

  1. She Studied the Blade

    EPISODE 4

    She Studied the Blade

    Gideon the Ninth Chapter 4. Harrow has a job for Gideon. Gideon is not into it. Claire Beans (main gauche fist) and Han Koehle (main gauche additional sword) have a combined 25+ years of sword fighting and are excited to talk about the weapons systems of the empire and what they tell us about the world. Gideon's ambiguous status comes into play again. We get clues about animal agriculture and class differences in clothing on the Ninth. Cover Image by Eerna. Content Warning: brief discussion of injury related to abuse and combat, medical injustice, slavery, war, calories Further Reading: "Critical Theory for Political Theology 2.0: Refusal" (2022) Elisha Chi "A million other factors killing us": Black women's health and refusing necropolitics-as-usual during COVID-19" (2023). Megan A. Carney, Debi Chess, Deyanira Ibarra, Kianna Dieudonne, and Michelle Rascon-Canales A Feminist Theory of Refusal (2021) Bonnie Honig The Art of Swordsmanship (1482) Johannes Lecküchner "Hostess" (1951) Isaac Asimov "Reconciling the Privilege of a Few with the Common Good: Sumptuary Laws in Medieval and Early Modern Europe" (2009) Maria Giuseppina Muzzarelli "Tetanus" (2025) Sawbones Nun Pod With Left Grief is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike International License. Find us at NunPod.com and get our attention with #NunPod. If you’d like to support our show with your voice, share NunPod with a friend or leave a review on Apple Podcasts. If you’d like to use money to support us, we encourage you to think of the amount you’d like to send us on Patreon each month and then instead send it here. Let us know that you did!

    52 min
  2. A Bad Cavalier

    EPISODE 6

    A Bad Cavalier

    We're re-reading Gideon the Ninth Act I Chapter 6. We get a Gideon Nav training montage! Gideon gets a compliment (kind of). Harrow and Gideon leave home. Claire Beans (she/they) and Han Koehle (any pronouns) dive into monastic life, revisit material culture on the Ninth, and talk more about sword sports. Han wants to watch Gideon and Claire wrestle. Claire wishes somebody would make this fan video that Han made in 2023. Han wants to know why Crux even has a "turn off the heating for Gideon specifically" lever. Thanks Claire for this week's cover art. You can find more of Claire's art on Instagram. Content Warning: death, torture, slavery, child abuse, infertility Further Reading: "Training Montage" (2022) The Mountain Goats Destreza Part 3 - Footwork (2013) Martial Traveler Don't Leave Your Friends Behind: Concrete Ways to Support Families in Social Justice Movements and Communities (2012) Victoria Law & China Martens Childhood and the Monastery: Jigme's Story (2019) UNICEF Discipline and Punish (1975) Michel Foucault Ancrene Wisse (early 13th century) Author Unknown; Edited J. R. R. Tolkien Nun Pod With Left Grief is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike International License. Find us at NunPod.com and get our attention with #NunPod. If you’d like to support our show with your voice, share NunPod with a friend or leave a review on Apple Podcasts. If you’d like to use money to support us, we encourage you to think of the amount you’d like to send us on Patreon each month and then instead send it here. Let us know that you did!

    1h 5m

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Tamsyn Muir's Locked Tomb series (so far, Gideon the Ninth, Harrow the Ninth, and Nona the Ninth) offers a rich, humorous look at power, agency, and relationship under empire. Join Claire Beans (she/they), Han Koehle (any pronouns), and guests as we reread the Locked Tomb series chapter by chapter, analyzing Muir's universe and characters and connecting them to the real world through theory and fandom. Spoilers will be spoilt.