More Queer Nymphs

Clare M Coombe

More Queer Nymphs is a fortnightly mythological podcast exploring gender, identity, and sexuality, with writer Clare M Coombe. Content Warning: some adult language and themes of sex and/or sexual violence.

Episodes

  1. More Queer Nymphs Episode 6: Sirens & Nereids

    10/25/2021

    More Queer Nymphs Episode 6: Sirens & Nereids

    In Episode 6 of More Queer Nymphs, Clare M Coombe explores the parallels and opposition between Sirens and Nereids, who will both inform later Mermaid myths, considering their allure, their song, and how they embody female empowerment.

    12 min
  2. More Queer Nymphs Episode 5: Circe

    09/27/2021

    More Queer Nymphs Episode 5: Circe

    In Episode 5 of More Queer Nymphs, Clare M Coombe discusses Circe, powerful witch, daughter of the Sun, transformer of men, and big fan of pigs. Why would she submit to Odysseus when he threatens her? Why would she pine for him? What happened to her power in the end?

    17 min
  3. More Queer Nymphs Episode 4: Skylla

    09/13/2021

    More Queer Nymphs Episode 4: Skylla

    In Episode 4 of More Queer Nymphs, Clare M Coombe discusses Skylla, especially her transformation from girl into monster as described by Ovid. Dealing with issues of beauty, appetite, and what women want, the episode tries to free Skylla from the monster narrative, reclaiming it for women's empowerment and freedom.

    20 min
  4. More Queer Nymphs Episode 3: Lamia

    08/30/2021

    More Queer Nymphs Episode 3: Lamia

    In Episode 3 of More Queer Nymphs, Clare M Coombe explores the myth of Lamia, looking at motherhood and monstrosity, women's identity, female sexuality, and vampirism. Lamia, whose children, born to Zeus, are stolen by Hera, suffers terrible grief, and, in her powerlessness, becomes a child-killer herself. Later she will be identified with women who seduce young men and drink their blood. Oh, and she can remove her own eyes at will...

    25 min
  5. More Queer Nymphs Episode 2: Callisto

    08/16/2021

    More Queer Nymphs Episode 2: Callisto

    In Episode 2 of More Queer Nymphs, Clare M Coombe explores the story of Callisto, exploring themes of power-abuse and metamorphosis. Raped by Zeus, made pregnant, rejected by Artemis and her chosen family, and transformed into a bear: this episode views the myth as a metaphor for complicity in abuse of women and loss of bodily autonomy.

    19 min
  6. More Queer Nymphs Episode 1: Daphne

    07/29/2021

    More Queer Nymphs Episode 1: Daphne

    In Episode 1 of More Queer Nymphs, Clare M Coombe explores the story of the nymph Daphne, who opts out of normative gender structures but cannot free herself from predatory men or patriarchal control over her body. Assaulted by Apollo, she is turned into a laurel tree by her father, but retains her mind even as she loses her bodily autonomy forever.

    22 min
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About

More Queer Nymphs is a fortnightly mythological podcast exploring gender, identity, and sexuality, with writer Clare M Coombe. Content Warning: some adult language and themes of sex and/or sexual violence.

Information

  • Creator
    Clare M Coombe
  • Years Active
    2K
  • Episodes
    6
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © 2021 Clare M Coombe
  • Show Website
    More Queer Nymphs