TWIFH Zine
We didn’t start the TWIFH Zine (our newsletter) until September 2026, so unfortunately the majority of our back catalog episodes do not have accompanying features (yet?). We will update their episode pages and their pages here when, and if, they get back-written expanded material. All episode pages feature the original show notes, including sources cited.
Walt Whitman’s Super Gay Love of Music Makes Us Cry This Week
Never enough! This week, V and Emily travel back to TWIFH’s oldest historical event thus far: opera singer Jenny Lind’s landmark 1850 tour in the United States and its accompanying “Lindmania.” Did you know that the fangirls of 1850 were Just Like Us? They sobbed, they squeed, they schemed to meet their faves, and they spent way, WAY too much on concert tickets. The quotes from antebellum Lind fans reacting to hearing secular music for the first time give us the chills. Come wait outside the stage doors with us for a glimpse at the Swedish Nightingale.