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  • Queer Community Programming Group with Filmhouse

    Lavender Menace Queer Books Archive Edinburgh Palette Room G25c 151 London Road, Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom

    Are you interested in queer films?Would you like to be involved in deciding which queer films are shown atFilmhouse?Come along to our new community programming group, a collaborationbetween Filmhouse, Lavender Menace Queer Books Archive, and Programmedwith Pride.Filmhouse is an independent cinema in the heart of Edinburgh, celebrating themagic of cinema in all its forms. Lavender […]

  • A section of the cover of Everything for Everyone: An Oral History of the New York Commune, 2052 – 2072 in russet and turquoise with transport lines criss-crossing it

    Archiving Queer Futures: Eman Abdelhadi in conversation with Nat Raha (online)

    Join Lavender Menace for 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 University of Chicago, where she researches American Muslim communities. […]

  • Window(s) of Tolerance: Tools for Ideal Collaborations in an Un-Ideal World

    Lavender Menace Queer Books Archive Edinburgh Palette Room G25c 151 London Road, Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom

    Doors open at 6pm, workshop 6.30-8pmA workshop from Feminist Culture House, supported by Edinburgh Art Festival Let’s pollinate the cultural field with intersectional feminist working practices! This 1.5hr workshop uses verbal, edible, and textual prompts to guide a conversation about identifying and distributing different skills and currencies within collaborative creative practices.  During the workshop, Katie […]

  • Sapphic Spaces: In conversation with June Thomas

    Epworth Hall 25 Nicolson Square, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

    Join Wuthering Dykes Book Club and Lavender Menace Queer Books Archive for an evening with the lesbian legend June Thomas, author of A Place of Our Own. June will be in conversation with Sigrid Nielsen, co-founder of both Scotland’s first LGBT+ bookshop and Lavender Menace, and Sophie Haynes, who runs Wuthering Dykes.  The event is […]

  • Asexuality in the Archive

    Lavender Menace Queer Books Archive Edinburgh Palette Room G25c 151 London Road, Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom

    This interactive workshop introduces how asexuality was treated as a medical issue in the Victorian Age and its impact on contemporary media representation. It will begin by examining how nineteenth-century doctors constructed a set of symptoms that supposedly diagnosed individuals as asexual. Together, we’ll look at how this conceptualisation is mirrored – or challenged – […]

  • Two men reading the newspaper Gay News

    Queer Men for Queer Literature

    Lavender Menace Queer Books Archive Edinburgh Palette Room G25c 151 London Road, Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom

    A friendly monthly discussion group about gay books and gay writing, for people who enjoy reading and talking about how gay writing has impacted our lives. We meet on the second Sunday of every month and we pick a different theme/topic each time. In October, we’ll be discussing queer horror. You don’t need to prepare […]

  • Decorative: An image of rainbow coloured books with the text Social Sunday

    Social Sunday

    Lavender Menace Queer Books Archive Edinburgh Palette Room G25c 151 London Road, Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom

    On the 2nd and 4th Sunday of every month, the Lavender Menace Queer Books Archive is open 2pm–4pm for our informal Social Sundays. Join us for tea, cake and lots of queer book discussion! There is no need to sign up in advance, you can just turn up. Social Sundays are a great way to […]

  • Queer Joy

    Lavender Menace Queer Books Archive Edinburgh Palette Room G25c 151 London Road, Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom

    Join us at our monthly Queer Joy book club! For October, we’re reading Eat The Ones You Love by Sarah Maria Griffin. We meet on the third Sunday each month to discuss queer books through a lens of finding joy in LGBTQ+ stories. Queer books are often distressing or tragic, so we started a book […]

  • A photograph of a crowd of lesbians from the Lesbian Herstory Archive marching carrying banners with Mabel Hampton, Radclyffe Hall, and other lesbian icons.

    Lesbian Words

    Lavender Menace Queer Books Archive Edinburgh Palette Room G25c 151 London Road, Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom

    A monthly informal gathering to discuss literature by lesbians and queer women.

  • An engraving of an old library tainted purple with Future Drop Outs written on the left hand side

    Future Drop Outs: co-working group

    Lavender Menace Queer Books Archive Edinburgh Palette Room G25c 151 London Road, Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom

    Future Drop Outs is a co-working group for queer students, researchers, and writers. Join us for a calm, supportive studying session, 1-4pm on the third Monday of the month. What to expect A relaxed and relatively quiet space to work on your own project in the company of others. Because of the nature of the […]

  • An illustration of a gothic window, bookshelf and scaredlooking Dr Frankenstein. From the 1813 edition of Frankenstein by Mary Shelley.

    Queer Gothic Words

    Lavender Menace Queer Books Archive Edinburgh Palette Room G25c 151 London Road, Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom

    A monthly book club focusing on queer gothic writing. Every month we choose a book (or selection of shorter texts) by LGBTQ+ authors, or featuring queer characters/themes to read and discuss together. We alternate between classic and contemporary texts. October’s book: Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier. Please book in advance. If you are unable to attend, please […]

  • Decorative: An image of rainbow coloured books with the text Social Sunday

    Social Sunday

    Lavender Menace Queer Books Archive Edinburgh Palette Room G25c 151 London Road, Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom

    On the 2nd and 4th Sunday of every month, the Lavender Menace Queer Books Archive is open 2pm–4pm for our informal Social Sundays. Join us for tea, cake and lots of queer book discussion! There is no need to sign up in advance, you can just turn up. Social Sundays are a great way to […]