Bookshop.org reveals its New Futures shortlist with LGBTQ+ candidates
The programme aims to select, reach and foster entrepreneurs from underrepresented communities across the UK to open a new independent bookshop.
Books
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
StoneCrabs Theatre celebrates LGBT History Month with a new book and exhibition about the Isle of Wight’s hidden LGBTQ+ history
The book features excerpts from 18 interviews with LGBTQ+ people, carried out over two years, who share honest, intimate accounts of what it’s like to be ‘out’ on the Isle of Wight, an isolated island with a long and abiding conservative history
Neil Bartlett’s Address Book
Neil Bartlett’s Address Book takes a deep dive into LGBT+ history.
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
The Centre for Transforming Sexuality and Gender to host free online event with Dr Tina Sikka
Dr Sikka’s recent work, ‘Sex, Consent and Justice: A New Feminist Framework’, reflects research around increasingly fraught debates about sex, consent, feminism, justice, abolition, and gender relations that have taken centre stage in academic, journalistic and social media circles in recent years.
Unravelling the myth of Greta Garbo
Robert Gottlieb is a revered literary editor and lifelong Garbo devotee. His latest book “Garbo” attempts to unravel the mystery of Hollywood’s most elusive star.