Queer Books Archive
Queer liberation and the natural world are two themes that aren’t often thought of as related or connected. We’re going to read and respond to some works that explore these themes. You are welcome to come along and listen or to bring an extract of your own to read out.A short list of questions to […]
Edinburgh Art Festival present the photography exhibition Through A Lavender Lens: Celebrating the Legacy of Scotland’s First LGBTQ+ Book Shop.
Join us at Archive After Hours for the 42nd anniversary of the original Lavender Menace bookshop, which first opened its doors in August 1982. 42 years on, the archive will be open late for a wee party to celebrate. Expect cake, snacks, fizz, and a good blether! This is a drop in event, so you […]
Free workshop for for queer, trans, intersex and non binary people of colour Doors 5pm, event 5:30pm-7:30pm Plotting on the Body is a reflective writing and collage workshop for QTPOC feeling the weight of expectations on the way they present gender and queerness in their bodies. We will collage with maps to discuss the way […]
Portobello Book Festival will take place at the Portobello Library 4th-6th October. We are delighted that Bob and Sigrid will be featured at this event: A chance to find out about Edinburgh’s Lavender Menace Queer Books Archive with founders Sigrid Nielsen and Bob Orr. The archive aims to collect, conserve and celebrate queer books published before 2000 which […]
Lavender Menace Queer Books Archive and LGBT Health and Wellbeing come together once again to celebrate the Scottish Mental Health Arts Festival 2024 alongside Black History Month for another showcase of poetry and spoken word spotlighting LGBTQ+ black and writers of colour. This year hosted by queer poet and writer JJ Fadaka, you can expect […]
Organised by Speak Out Studio in partnership with Lavender Menace Time: 7pm – 9:30pm (doors at 6:30pm)Location: Leith Depot, 138-142 Leith Walk, Edinburgh, EH6 5DT Join us for an evening of knowledge testing and fundraising for World AIDS Day 2024, with 100% of the proceeds going to Waverley Care, Scotland’s leading HIV and Hepatitis C […]
Doors: 6.30pmEvent: 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 […]
Join Lavender Menace in our friendly queer book archive for a hands-on writing workshop with Heather Parry exploring the craft of the queer gothic story. Materials and refreshments provided. Heather Parry is a Glasgow-based writer of fiction and nonfiction. Her debut novel, Orpheus Builds a Girl, was shortlisted for the Saltire Fiction Book of the […]
Lavender Menace and illustrator Candice Purwin welcome you to Comics for Connection, an afternoon workshop in our archive where you will learn how to make your own art and zines on the topic of connection. Whatever your connection to queerness, to spaces and places, to self and others here and afar, the workshop aims to […]
Join the National Library of Scotland for a screening of the 1983 documentary ‘Coming Out’ followed by an exploration of the Lavender Menace archive. Join the Lavender Menace bookshop co-founder Sigrid Nielsen and other members of the community group, for a showing of this documentary. It includes footage of the Lavender Menace bookshop which opened […]
Join us for an informal party to celebrate the opening of our new co-curated exhibition! There’ll be drinks and nibbles, and the chance to hear more about the stories featured in the exhibition. Desire Paths: Reading Queer Edinburgh is an exhibition which explores our city’s histories through a queer lens. Drawing on books from our collection and […]
