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Tag: Queer Studies

In conversation with So Mayer: ‘The body is not a discrete object’

19th September 20214th October 2021  Frankie Dytor

Frankie Dytor talks to writer, activist and curator, So Mayer, about their brilliant book, A Nazi Word for a Nazi Thing, writing as non-linear montage, actively creating the anarchive, the iconic figure of Magnus Hirschfeld, embodiment and more.

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Posted in Arts, Books, InterviewsTagged: A Nazis Word for a Nazis Thing, Baroque, BAROQUE Guest Editorial, Frankie Dytor, Ignota Books, Peninsula Press, queer histories, Queer Studies, QUILTBAG, Saidiya Hartman, So Mayer, trans histories, Ursula le Guin

Interview with Shola von Reinhold: ‘It felt like Hermia Fabulated herself out of the archive’

1st June 202119th September 2021  Frankie Dytor

To open their new guest editorial, BAROQUE, Frankie Dytor talks to award-winning writer, Shola von Reinhold, about their acclaimed novel, LOTE, the radicalism of ornamentality, writing trans characters and the existence of queer Black artists and figures in the archives.

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Posted in Arts, Books, InterviewsTagged: Abondance Matanda, Amber Jamilla Musser, Baroque, BAROQUE Guest Editorial, Decadence, fin de siècle, Frankie Dytor, Hélène Cox, Jacaranda, Jacaranda 2020, Jacaranda Books, Krista Thompsen, LOTE, queer literature, Queer Studies, rococo, Shola von Reinhold, Stephen Tennant, Susan Sontag

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

Interview with writer Julie Peakman: ‘I want to find women’s voices in history but also expose how badly we and marginalised men have been treated’

6th February 20206th February 2020  Miriam Al Jamil

Author of a number of books relating to the history of sexuality, Julie Peakman’s new work, Licentious Worlds, offers a history of sexual attitudes and behaviour through five hundred years of empire building around the world. Here, she talks to our arts contributor, Miriam Al Jamil, about her book and the research behind it.

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Posted in Books, Interviews, PoliticsTagged: colonialism, Empire, Feminism, history, Julie Peakman, Kathleen Wilson, Philippa Levine, Queer Studies, Reaktion Books, Robert Aldrich, Roy Porter, Sex, Sexuality and Eighteenth Century Culture, Shraddha Chatterjee
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