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REVIEW: The Fake-Up by Justin Myers

REVIEW: The Fake-Up by Justin Myers

This is a lovely exploration of people struggling to have it all and realising that perhaps it’s just each other that they really want, and managing their own, and others expectations of what love can, and should be about.

REVIEW: Queer Life, Queer Love

REVIEW: Queer Life, Queer Love

The prose is world class, the arguments a clarion call, although not all of them recent, they chime in our daily lives still. The authentic narrative of personal experience of transition lift this book into Gospel and the poetry shakes it all back down again with metaphorical and emotional lightning

REVIEW: The Pirate Mums by Jodie Lancet-Grant & Lydia Corry

REVIEW: The Pirate Mums by Jodie Lancet-Grant & Lydia Corry

I love seeing us reflected in stories and with young people it’s really important that they can see themselves as key parts of fun, engaging and constructive narratives. The Pirate Mums is all of that, inclusive to the bone, celebratory of LGBTQ+ families and lives and very gently challenging of pre

REVIEW: Ace of Spades by Faridah Abike-Iyimide

REVIEW: Ace of Spades by Faridah Abike-Iyimide

If you like books about sinister powerful elitist organisations who use all sorts of nefarious tricks to keep their holds on power you’ll love this book, but look in the mirror as it’s not a conspiracy thriller but the fictionalised narrative of institutionalised racism and individual prejudice focu

REVIEW: Guy UsinU – Oil & fetish

REVIEW: Guy UsinU – Oil & fetish

The book is an evocative and crepuscular exploration not just of the people and places of Brighton but also the psycho-sexual geography of the artist themselves. Where they lay, pause, linger, what they see, feel and embrace, and what they leave in the echoes of desire, control and abandonment which

REVIEW: The Transgender Issue by Shon Faye

REVIEW: The Transgender Issue by Shon Faye

Keeping the emphasis on change, clearly detailing the harm caused by the current toxic situation but keeping the attention on hope, on what could and should be done by everyone interested in real equality to achieve it by working in solidarity. This is a book which offers us a way onward, to a bet

BOOK REVIEW: The Secret Life of Albert Entwistle by Matt Cain

BOOK REVIEW: The Secret Life of Albert Entwistle by Matt Cain

the narrative is suffused with joy, skipping around with an inventiveness that carries the plot along.

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