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BOOK REVIEW: The Queens of Sarmiento Park by Camila Sosa Villada

November 1, 2022

I absolutely adored it, in the face of bleak reality and a world which rejects anyone different it offers pure trembling life affirming moments of brilliant vibrant hope, a spiritual connection with the essence of life, an irrefutable rightness of being you, which cannot be taken away by harsh grinding realism and the experience of which blasts the shadows all around with its powerful sustaining light, no matter how fleeting that may be.

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BOOK REVIEW: ‘A Working-Class Family Ages Badly’ by Juno Roche

September 15, 2022

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 that memory buffs smooth with use. 

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BOOK REVIEW: Queer Beyond London by Matt Cook & Alison Oram

September 12, 2022

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 and time again the book comes back to one bold assertion, that together we are the strongest, that together we can make our dreams come true, that together we can overcome.

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BOOK REVIEW: Flamingo by Rachel Elliot

September 12, 2022

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 of all.

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BOOK REVIEW: Filthy Animals by Brandon Taylor

August 26, 2022

Filthy Animals Brandon Taylor This collection of eleven LGBTQ+ stories, interwoven and interconnected by character, theme and narrative tension is superb. Taylor takes the familiar Queer tropes and upends them, shakes them out, twists them round, some get a spit and rub, others placed back in strange and unfamiliar ways, but we see ourselves reflected […]

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BOOK REVIEW: Great LGBTQ+ Speeches by Tea Uglow

July 1, 2022

Eric Page is delighted by the insight, sass and glorious rhetoric (from) these speeches shine like beacons, they glow with the power of inspiration, they shake with rage, shudder with righteous anger and shout across time space for us to echo them in our daily testimony, struggle and who we fight to support.

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