Hi! We are Ragman’s Harbour, the official podcast of the Planetosi Exchange Programme, a new podcast dedicated to discussing real-life historical and cultural parallels to ASOIAF, from a non-Anglo perspective.
Because we, Virginie and Lo, come from non-English speaking countries although we use English as our common language!
We're back with another episode discussing gender, gender nonconformity, gender norms and more! In this episode we manage to compare another medieval saint to Brienne of Tarth, discuss masculinity norms in relation to clothing in ASOIAF compared to the real world, and talk a fair bit about gender norms in different cultures (both within ASOIAF and without).
You can also join us on Patreon and support our work + get some LOTR virgin read through reaction episodes in your ears.
References and sources
Lo talks about:
”Assigned Female at Death: Joseph of Schönau and the Disruption of Medieval Gender Binaries” by Martha G Newman. In Trans and Genderqueer Subjects in Medieval Hagiography, edited by Alicia Spencer-Hall & Blake Gutt.
“Were there Transgender People in the Middle Ages?” by M.W Bychowski.
“Performing and Desiring Gender Variance in Early Modern Ottoman Empire” by Abdulhamit Arvas. In Trans Historical - Gender Plurality before the Modern, edited by Greta LeFleur, Masha Raskolnikov & Anna Kłosowska.
And the recent crackdown on Turkish LGBTQI+ organisations, which you can read more about here: "Türkiye must end the coordinated crackdown on LGBTI+ civil society!" - ILGA World
Virginie talks about:
The books by Michel Pastoureau, such as Rose : histoire d'une couleur.
Dragoons (mounted infantry)
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15 Aug 2026
Special ep: the Mad King play 🎭
We joined our friends at the Garde de Nuit (French Night's Watch association), as well as Javi Marcos from Los Siete Reinos (Spain) to talk about the best thing we've seen and experienced in forever: the Mad King play at Stratford-upon-Avon.
This was originally a livestream, so apologies for the unedited discussion -but we give you all you may dream to hear if you're interested in theatrics, props, puppets, the plot, canon, costumes, etc.
Do you want to see us and not just listen? Of course you can! it's at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jffUa3zS9SY
Do you speak French and want to see the amazing work the French fandom association does? it's at https://lagardedenuit.com/wiki/index.php?title=Accueil
Do you speak Spanish and want to see what the leading Spanish language community does? it's at https://lossietereinos.com/
As ever, you can contact us at:
ragmanspod@gmail.com
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Thank you to Matt Graham for the theme music with sounds from zapsplat.com!
10 Aug 2026
Sweet Knight Report 7 HotD S3E7 💚
Yes, it is late. But I was busy Englanding and MadKingling, and then being sleep deprived and having to work and stuff. Rude.Sigh
But! Criston Cole may be dead, he is more alive than ever in my and Gwayne Hightower's heart. They were, after all, very good friends <3
I'll have seen the season finale in a bit, I'm sure I'll have a lot of comments.
As ever, let us know what you think 🖤
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