Tag: queerbooks
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CANCELLED: Scotch Verdict with Lillian Faderman
UPDATE: Unfortunately, we have had to cancel this event due to unforeseen circumstances. Join 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.…
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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.…
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Lavender and Menaces
The clothed lesbian body as a tool of resistance, the sapphic significance of purple, and the making of the modern-day femme
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Three Writing Lives
Our second online event Conversations with Writers took place on Thursday 2 September. Playwright Jo Clifford and novelist and short story writer Ely Percy were in conversation with Eris Young.
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A Lavender Attic
‘LGBT+ archives,’ says Gerard Koskovich of the GLBT Historical Society of San Francisco, ‘are your queer grandma’s attic’. They are the place where younger generations will find our legacy.
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Hot-Blooded Dinosaurs
The Hot-Blooded Dinosaurs: A Revolution in Palaeontology by Adrian DesmondBlond & Briggs, 1975. QUEER DINOSAUR DISCOVERED! Some people may remember the ITV series based on this illustrated science book, now found mainly in charity shops. The queer dinosaur in the story of this book wasn’t a reptile, he was a human being – an eccentric…
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Mortimer’s Deep
Mortimer’s Deep by Simon TaylorBalnain Books, 1992. A house of men on an island at the end of the world… Mortimer’s Deep is a dangerous stretch of water in Fife. It lies between the village of Aberdour and the medieval monastery of Inchcolm on a stark, rocky island. Storms blow up quickly and, even on…
