Blog posts by The Menaces
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Office holders wanted – Finance Director and Board Secretary
Our Directors play a vital role in making sure that Lavender Menace Queer Books Archive achieves its core purpose. They oversee the overall management and administration of the organisation. They work to ensure that Lavender Menace Queer Books Archive has a clear strategy and that our work and goals are in line with our vision.…
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Book Review: Waiting on a Friend by Natalie Adler
Lavender Menace volunteer Katie Marson reviews Waiting on a Friend by Natalie Adler, which will be published by Quercus Publishing later this year. Natalie Adler’s Waiting on a Friend is a heartwarming, heartbreaking, triumph of a debut. It is both a celebration of queer culture and history, and a creative condemnation of the capitalist systems…
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Our Top Queer Books for Halloween
As the nights are drawing in, it’s the perfect time to curl up with a creepy, spooky or unsettling read. And there’s no end of queer horror books to choose from. Whether it’s the exploration of otherness, themes of transformation, or the long history of queer-coded characters, there’s something that draws many LGBTQ+ people to…
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Reimagining the Archive with Mae Diansangu and Shane Strachan
You can now watch the recording of this event online Last year, we welcomed Mae Diansangu and Shane Strachan to the Lavender Menace Queer Books Archive for an afternoon of readings and discussion on how to reimagine archives. We explored representation in archives through an intersectional lens and interrogated how we can ensure queer stories are preserved.…
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Archiving Queer Futures: Eman Abdelhadi in conversation with Nat Raha
You can now watch the recording of this event online. Lavender Menace hosted an online discussion between two activist scholars on imagining and archiving queer futures. Dr Eman Abdelhadi is an academic, activist and writer who thinks at the intersection of gender, sexuality, religion and politics. She is an assistant professor and sociologist at the…
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