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SUMMARY:Gay Scotland Now Collage Workshop at Edinburgh Zine Fair
DESCRIPTION:Join Lavender Menace for a free and fun collage workshop remixing text and images from Gay Scotland. Gay Scotland was a staple of the Scottish queer scene when it was published in the 1980s-2000s. Explore LGBT events\, adverts\, articles\, and classifieds from the past and remix them to reflect what Scotland means to queer communities now. \n\n\n\nNo need to bring anything – we have materials and photocopies of vintage queer magazines. \n\n\n\nLavender Menace is a community archive with roots in Scotland’s first LGBT+ bookshop. We have a mission to bring together the queer community in Edinburgh and beyond\, celebrate LGBT+ authors and their works\, and collect and preserve LGBT+ books. lavendermenace.org.uk \n\n\n\n\nBook a ticket\n\n\n\n\nThis event is free. \n\n\n\nVenue & AccessibilityThe event is located on Floor 3\, ScotART\, St Margaret’s House (that’s three floors above the Lavender Menace archive). There is information on how to get to us on public transport and by car\, along with access information\, on our location & accessibility page.
URL:https://lavendermenace.org.uk/event/gay-scotland-now-collage-workshop
LOCATION:Edinburgh Zine Fair\, Floor 3\, 151 London Road\, Edinburgh\, EH7 6AE
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SUMMARY:3\,000 Lesbians Go to York
DESCRIPTION:Join Lavender Menace at the Filmhouse for a screening of this brilliant new film. Followed by a Q&A with author Jane Traies and director Rachel Dax\, and a booksigning.3000 Lesbians Go To York tells the extraordinary true story of how a lesbian bookseller (who also happened to be trans) created the largest gathering of LGBTQ+ women in the UK\, and how from 1998 to 2008\, the quietly conservative city of York became the unlikely centre of all things lesbian! \n\n\n\nFor one thrilling decade\, thousands of women flocked to the York Lesbian Arts Festival (YLAF) each autumn\, to meet their favourite authors\, buy books\, hear top female artists live on stage and dance the night away at the ‘disco of a thousand lesbians.’ \n\n\n\nFeaturing interviews with world famous writers Val McDermid\, Sarah Waters and Jackie Kay\, and the legendary singer Horse\, 3000 Lesbians Go To York is a real celebration of the historical significance of this iconic festival! \n\n\n\n\nBuy a ticket\n\n\n\n\nVenue & AccessibilityThe event will take place at Filmhouse on Lothian Road. You can see accessibility information on the Filmhouse website. Contact Filmhouse directly if you have more questions.
URL:https://lavendermenace.org.uk/event/3000-lesbians-go-to-york
LOCATION:Filmhouse\, 88 Lothian Road\, Edinburgh\, EH3 9BZ
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SUMMARY:CANCELLED: Scotch Verdict with Lillian Faderman
DESCRIPTION:UPDATE: Unfortunately\, we have had to cancel this event due to unforeseen circumstances. \n\n\n\nJoin Lavender Menace for a conversation with Lillian Faderman about the writing of her acclaimed book Scotch Verdict. First published in 1983\, the book details the experience of uncovering the story of a scandal surrounding a 19th-century boarding school in Edinburgh’s New Town. \n\n\n\nThis online event will be held on Zoom. We’ll email attendees a Zoom link before the event. Just book a free ticket to attend. \n\n\n\nAbout Scotch Verdict\n\n\n\nAward-winning author Lillian Faderman recreates the events surrounding this notorious case\, which became the basis for Lillian Hellman’s famous play\, The Children’s Hour. Reconstructing the libel suit filed by Pirie and Woods—which resulted in a scotch verdict\, or a verdict of inconclusive/not proven—Faderman builds a compelling narrative from court transcripts\, judges’ notes\, witnesses’ contradictory testimony\, and the prejudices of the men presiding over the case. Her fascinating portrait documents the social\, economic\, and sexual pressures shaping the lives of nineteenth-century women and the issues of class and gender contributing to their marginalisation. \n\n\n\nIn 1810\, a Scottish student named Jane Cumming accused her schoolmistresses\, Jane Pirie and Marianne Woods\, of having an affair in the presence of their students. Dame Helen Cumming Gordon\, the wealthy and powerful grandmother of the accusing student\, advised her friends to remove their daughters from the Drumsheugh boarding school. Within days\, the institution was deserted and the two women were deprived of their livelihoods. \n\n\n\nAbout the speaker\n\n\n\n\nLillian Faderman is an internationally known scholar of lesbian and LGBT history and literature. She is professor emerita of English at California State University\, Fresno. Her award-winning titles include: Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers\, Surpassing the Love of Men\, Naked in the Promised Land\, Power Politics\, and Lipstick Lesbians. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\nThe event will be chaired by Indigo Dunphy-Smith \n\n\n\n\nIndigo Dunphy-Smith (she/her) is a researcher and writer based in Edinburgh. She specialises in research and public programmes that create space for marginalised stories in traditional spaces. She is the author of How to: Queer Your Historic House\, a practical toolkit for uncovering queer stories in museum collections\, and co-chairs the National Trust for Scotland’s LGBTQ network and supports organisations to queer their heritage spaces. \n\n\n\n\nImage credits \n\n\n\nLilian Faderman photo by Phyllis Irwin; map reproduced with the permission of the National Library of Scotland Map Images website.
URL:https://lavendermenace.org.uk/event/scotch-verdict
LOCATION:Midlothian
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SUMMARY:Fashioning Our Selves with Katrina Rolley
DESCRIPTION: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.  \n\n\n\nBook a free place if you’d like to attend. \n\n\n\n\nBook a ticket\n\n\n\n\nWhat to expect\n\n\n\nAn informal conversational workshop in a small group lasting 2 hours (with a short break and refreshments). You don’t need to prepare anything in advance but you’re encouraged to bring a photograph or piece of clothing that’s meaningful to you or someone you care about\, to help us describe and share stories and experiences together. \n\n\n\nAbout the facilitator\n\n\n\n\nKatrina Rolley is a writer and digital creative whose work centres around identity\, appearance and our sense of self. With a background in fashion and identity studies\, Katrina’s current work uses personal experience combined with research into the self-presentation of lesbians in ‘20s and ‘30s Britain to explore how we all fashion our unique selves. \n\n\n\n\nBookingWe only have capacity for a limited number of people in the archive\, so please book in advance. If you are unable to attend\, please let us know so we can offer your place to someone else. \n\n\n\nVenue & AccessibilityThe 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 and accessibility page. \n\n\n\nAny other questionsPlease email us: themenaces@lavendermenace.org.uk
URL:https://lavendermenace.org.uk/event/fashioning-our-selves
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