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  • 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

    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

    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 […]

  • Fashioning Our Selves with Katrina Rolley

    Join Lavender Menace and writer Katrina Rolley for an intimate creative non-fiction workshop exploring how we fashion our selves and our identities through clothing.  Book a free place if you’d […]

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

    Social Sunday

    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 […]

  • The Lavender Drawing Board

    The Lavender Drawing Board: Co-working for queer creatives Researching, writing and creative freelancing can be a lonely road. The Lavender Menace Drawing Board offers a calm, supportive atmosphere for studying, […]

  • Keepers of the Flame with Janette Ayachi

    Join poet Janette Ayachi for a creative writing workshop exploring fire as both a literal & metaphorical force – destruction & renewal, love & loss, desire & transformation – while […]

  • Collaging Queer Edinburgh with Kamal Malhotra

    Lavender Menace Queer Books Archive Edinburgh Palette, Edinburgh, Scotland

    Join artist Kamal Malhotra to explore Edinburgh’s queer history through vintage maps, images, magazines, scissors, and glue! This informal collage workshop looks at the material Lavender Menace used for our […]

  • Making Art in Dark Times with Mae Diansangu

    Lavender Menace Queer Books Archive Edinburgh Palette, Edinburgh, Scotland

    Create found poetry and collage art in ‘Recover, recycle, reimagine: making art in dark times’ – a workshop led by poet Mae Diansangu. Participants will explore what it means to […]

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

    Queer Gothic Words

    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 […]

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

    Social Sunday

    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 […]

  • Queer Joy

    Lavender Menace Queer Books Archive Edinburgh Palette, Edinburgh, Scotland

    Join us at our monthly Queer Joy book club! After a break for January, we’re returning in February when we’re reading Girl, Woman, Other by Bernadine Evaristo. We normally meet […]