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BOOK REVIEW: ‘Proud Pink Sky’ by Redfern Jon Barrett

April 21, 2023

Proud Pink Sky’s futuristic but retro story asks us what it is to be a real ally, it asks us to look beyond our comfortable privilege, it urges us to hold out our hands to our LGBTQ+ siblings and feel the commonality, and fight for equality for all. Proud Pink Sky reminds us that hope will never be silent.

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BOOK REVIEW: Sunburn by Chloe Michelle Howarth

March 23, 2023

Sunburnt offers us a peek into blistering adolescent angst, a furious fission of elemental feelings exploding, boiling and churning with huge undercurrents sending out massive uninhibited flares that disrupt expectations and apparent paths forward.

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BOOK REVIEW: Rethinking Gender: An Illustrated Exploration by Louie Läuger

March 19, 2023

This is a lively, informative, and engaging graphic novel/guide to gender from and by this author-illustrator ( see more of their published work here) who helps readers grasp how many different answers can be give to the question:  “What even is gender?”.

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BOOK REVIEW: Miss Major Speaks: The Life and Legacy of a Black Trans Revolutionary

March 16, 2023

The ruthless sharp pointed humour gives this memoir a delirious tangy edge and offers you a peek and some insight into Miss Majors gentle inner warmth & pure power which has shaped LGBTQ+ struggles in American for more than fifty years. Miss Major is truly an Icon with  a glorious Legacy!

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BOOK REVIEW: The Enemy Within by Adam Macqueen

October 18, 2022

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 himself and his family more, an on-point political history of a violent time of huge change,  and a stonking good who-dunnit and who-dunn-what.

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BOOK REVIEW: Please Miss: A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Penis by Grace Lavery

October 4, 2022

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 receiving anonymous letters sent by a cult of sinister clowns, and […]

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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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