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Transfixions with Shola von Reinhold and Skye Arundhati Thomas

November 21 @ 7:00 pm 8:00 pm

Doors: 6.30pm
Event: 7-8pm

Join Lavender Menace for an evening with writer and editor Skye Arundhati Thomas in conversation with artist and writer Shola von Reinhold. Von Reinhold’s celebrated novel, Lote, weaves narratives of queer archival disruption, academic alienation, and obscured histories through the narrative of Mathilda’s fixation with archival figures. We ask her about the historical figures that haunt her work and the potential for queer histories to transfix artists and researchers.

Booking information
Booking in advance is essential. Places are free and limited so, if you are unable to attend, please let us know as soon as possible so we can offer your place to someone else.

Venue & Accessibility
The event is located at the Lavender Menace Queer Books Archive in Edinburgh Palette. There is information on how to get to us on public transport and by car, along with access information, on our location & accessibility page.

Any other questions
Please email our us: themenaces@lavendermenace.org.uk

Skye Arundhati Thomas is a writer and editor from India. Their first book Remember the Details, on viral images, courtrooms, and a brief history of a protest movement, is out with Floating Opera Press, and their second, Pleasure Gardens (co-written with Izabella Scott) on constitutional law, military occupation and communications blackouts is out now with Mack Books, as is their third, on the painter Lalitha Lajmi, with Sternberg Press. From 2021-24 they were co-editor of The White Review. They are currently international curator-in-residence at the Fondation Pernod Ricard in Paris. Photograph of Skye by Emma Riviera.

This event is funded by Book Week Scotland, Scottish Book Trust’s annual celebration of books and reading that takes place across the country.