BOOK REVIEW: A Short History of Queer Women by Kirsty Loehr This perfect book leaves you with an appetite to learn more, offering reassurance of constant affirming glorious presence of women loving women throughout known herstory.
BOOK REVIEW: The Enemy Within by Adam Macqueen The Enemy Within’ is a cracking read,a gripping thriller and complex real Queer love story, of men struggling to be honest and real enough to grab love when it’s there, an adventure racked with radical threat and emotional trauma, a tender self-realisation story as Alex matures and understands himse
BOOK REVIEW: Please Miss: A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Penis by Grace Lavery Please Miss: A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Penis Grace Lavery Grace Lavery is in their own words ‘a reformed druggie, an unreformed omnisexual chaos Muppet, and 100 percent, all-natural, synthetic female hormone monster’. In this meta surreal book she solves her “penis problem,” begins receivin
BOOK REVIEW: ‘A Working-Class Family Ages Badly’ by Juno Roche This is writing that takes us somewhere, sometimes through a shockingly forthright landscape. That’s a rare talent, one that they’re modest about. We’re offered up moments, captured in their minds eye, held up, turned in the light, reflections, refractions, thoughts playing off the shiny surfaces th
BOOK REVIEW: Queer Beyond London by Matt Cook & Alison Oram Part history, part dream, part political, part romance, part research but wholly celebratory. A book that tells Our story, by those that built and continue to build the spaces we choose to live in. The range of voices written in its pages reflects the diversity of our community back to us, but time
BOOK REVIEW: Flamingo by Rachel Elliot Flamingo, at its dysfunctional heart, is a story of people learning to let go and grow, to accept and love people regardless of their flaws, to find a radical space in the heart for kindness to flow. It’s a book about chosen family, finding yourself and the way truly being seen is the safest place o