An extract from This Is Why I Resist by Dr Shola Mos-Shogbamimu BY DR SHOLA MOS-SHOGBAMIMU Published in January, This Is Why I Resist is an urgent and timely anti-racist call [….]
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Published on :Poet Roz Kaveney tells DIVA about being involved in a new inclusive anthology and writing a love poem to her trans body BY SOPHIE GRIFFITHS, IMAGE BY KEITH BARNES Pulling [….]
REVIEW: The Inverts by Crystal Jeans
Published on :“I wanted to know every aspect of Bart and Bettina Dawes’s lives up until the present day, especially the scandalous parts” BY SARAH WINGROVE Bart likes men and Bettina likes [….]
The Coast Is Queer: Brighton’s LGBTQI literary festival is back 🌈
Published on :Brighton & Hove’s LGBTQI literature festival goes online for 2021 BY SOPHIE GRIFFITHS, IMAGE OF JUNO DAWSON BY JACK LATHAM The Coast Is Queer, Brighton & Hove’s festival celebrating LGBTQI [….]
“The difficulties and the knock-backs make you graft harder”: What it’s like to be a queer poet
Published on :Amy Tollyfield, a published writer and performance poet, tells us all about their career BY SOPHIE GRIFFITHS, IMAGE BY SIMON HOLLIDAY Amy Tollyfield is a published performance poet and the [….]
BOOKS: Kate Davies and Amrou Al-Kadhi announced as winners of the 10th Polari Prizes
Published on :The UK’s only award for books exploring the LGBTQI experience announces it’s 2020 winners BY SOPHIE GRIFFITHS Amrou Al-Kadhi and Kate Davieshave tonight been announced as the winners of the 2020 Polari [….]
BOOKS: Five queer Black authors to read this Black History Month
Published on :Some of our favourite Black writers who are transforming queer literature BY SOPHIE GRIFFITHS, IMAGE VIA INSTAGRAM We’re sure you’ve been ploughing through your lockdown reading list as the days [….]