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Tag: Queer Relationships

Interview with author Sara Jaffe: ‘I wanted to think about queerness in a really close and experiential way that precedes a coming-out moment’

2nd November 20213rd November 2021  Anna Kate Blair

Anna Kate Blair talks to author Sara Jaffe about why Dryland is an anti-coming-out novel, writers who have influenced her work, being published by the Queer UK-based Independent publisher Cipher Press, leaning into the awkwardness of writing about adolescence, music and much more.

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Posted in Arts, Books, InterviewsTagged: Anna Kate Blair, anti-coming-of-age-novel, Baroque, BAROQUE Guest Editorial, Cipher Press, Denton Welch, Gwendolyn Brooks, Leanne Shapton, Lynne Tillman, Novel, queer literature, queer love, Queer Relationships, Sara Jaffe, swimming

‘Writing Michael with You’ by Jess Moody

15th July 202116th July 2021  Jess Moody

In this gorgeously giddy piece, Jess Moody revels in the queer aestheticism and poetic freedom of Michael Field’s Works and Days.

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Posted in Creative Writing, Flash FictionTagged: Baroque, BAROQUE Guest Editorial, Creative Writing, Jess Moody, Michael Field, Queer Art, queer literature, queer love, Queer Relationships, Sappho

Rosie Garland’s What Girls Do In The Dark

19th October 202019th October 2020  Elodie Rose Barnes

In Rosie Garland’s enchanting new collection of poetry, What Girls Do In The Dark, we’re invited to take a leap into the unknown, embrace darkness in all its forms, and encounter girls who morph and burn brightly.

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Posted in Arts, BooksTagged: darkness, Feminism, Night, Nine Arches Press, Poetry, Queer Relationships, Queer Studies, Rosie Garland, What Girls Do In The Dark

Chapter 3: The Art of Translating a Life

5th October 202013th October 2020  Elodie Rose Barnes

In her third chapter of the series, Elodie Rose Barnes walks the streets of Paris trying to uncover fragments of Djuna Barnes’ relationship with Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven and her attempt to write a biography of the Dada artist’s life.

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Posted in Art and design, Arts, Creative Writing, Non-FictionTagged: Berlin, Decorating Dissidence, Djuna Barnes, Elodie Rose Barnes, Francis Picabia, Life in Languages, Marcel Duchamp, Modernism, modernist avant garde, New York, Paris, Queer Relationships, Queer Studies, The Baroness, Translation

Permission by Saskia Vogel – a stunning debut about grief and healing

29th June 2020  Elodie Rose Barnes

Saskia Vogel’s beautifully written debut, Permission, is about sex, power, and, yes, BDSM. But it’s also about grief, belonging and the healing that comes from such intimacy, writes our guest editor Elodie Rose Barnes.

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Posted in Arts, BooksTagged: BDSM, Camille Paglia, Dialogue Books, LGBTQ+, Novel, Permission, Pride, Queer Relationships, Saskia Vogel, sexuality

Josephine Baker by Catel and Bocquet – a triumph of research and astounding detail

22nd June 202030th June 2020  Gabriela Frost

Dancer, singer, actress, activist and spy: Josephine Baker took both the stage and lectern by storm, as beautifully and boldly conceived in Catel and Bocquet’s graphic novel. But when it comes to her queer relationships they’re decidedly silent, writes our reviewer Gabriela Frost.

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Posted in Arts, BooksTagged: Biography, Bobino Theatre, Bocquet, Cabaret, Catel, Catel Muller, comic, graphic novel, Into the Night: Cabarets and Clubs in Modern Art, José-Louis Bocquet, Josephine Baker, LGBTQ+, Martin Luther King, Night, Night / Shift, Pride, Queer Relationships, SelfMadeHero, UK Black Pride

All About Sarah by Pauline Delabroy-Allard – a powerful tale of all-consuming love

17th May 202017th May 2020  Elodie Rose Barnes

Pauline Delabroy-Allard’s debut novel, All About Sarah, is a brilliantly haunting story about an intense and passionate love affair between two women, writes Elodie Rose Barnes.

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Posted in Arts, BooksTagged: Adriana Hunter, All About Sarah, Harvill Secker, Louis Aragon, Pauline Delabroy-Allard, Penguin, Queer Relationships, Translation

In the Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado – a genre-defying page turner

20th April 202020th April 2020  Jennifer Brough

Carmen Maria Machado’s genre-bending memoir, In the Dream House, is a clever and poignant exploration of an abusive relationship, one that ranges from Star Trek and film noir to debates of LGBTQ+ rights in the US.

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Posted in Arts, BooksTagged: Carmen Maria Machado, In the Dream House, Intersectional Feminism, memoir, Queer Relationships
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