Run by local booksellers Afrori Books and the Feminist Bookshop, this grassroots festival is not your typical literary festival – it targets a younger, socially aware audience and has an inclusive ethos, accessible events and is community minded.
Run by local booksellers Afrori Books and the Feminist Bookshop, this grassroots festival is not your typical literary festival – it targets a younger, socially aware audience and has an inclusive ethos, accessible events and is community minded.
“The result is that children, including LGBT children, are missing out on learning that LGBT people should be celebrated, and their relationships should be respected just like those of straight people.”
Queer book reviews from our resident book worm, Eric Page
Independent bookshop owners Carolynn Bain of Afrori Books, the first Black-owned bookshop in Sussex, and Ruth Wainwright of the Feminist Bookshop, are to launch a book festival in Brighton this summer to amplify “a wide spectrum of voices”
The programme aims to select, reach and foster entrepreneurs from underrepresented communities across the UK to open a new independent bookshop.
Sutherland has amassed an eclectic group of poets here, from uber modern like Carol Ann Duffy & Maya Angelou to weathered classics from John Donne & Emily Dickinson, the range is impressive. Some fun, frivolous and fancy, others profound & pertinent. It touches the spot.
We are asked to consider marriage, as an achievement, a compromise, a selling-out, a practical solution and given experiences of authentic lives of what marriage means to a range of people across the spectrum of sexuality and class, and what the future looks like for this most historic and universal of institutions.
Not to be confused with the Ogden Nash poem, although very much in the bonkers celebratory style of his prose and radically mind popping daftness this is a delightful entertaining book from author Dorsey who adores words, pokes, tickles, makes them perform these incredibly funny feats of phraseology and all the while packs in the narrative tension
New regulations in Hungary will require the sellers of any LGBTQ+ children’s book to package the books in “closed wrapping”.
To mark its 50th anniversary, QueenSpark Books will be publishing a landmark book comprising 50 stories, and is looking for tales, anecdotes and reminiscences from Brighton residents
