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Queer Book Club (Zipper Mouth by Laurie Weeks)

The Queer Book Club is a space for LGBT+ people and everybody else to discuss LGBT fiction. We’ll be chatting about Zipper Mouth, Laurie Weeks’ debut novella. A bedazzling chronicle of a lesbian woman’s struggle through drug-addled unrequited love in 90s New York, it has been compared to beat generation masterpiece Naked Lunch. We have a few copies…

Queer Book Club

The Queer Book Club is a space for LGBT+ people and anybody else to discuss books by LGBT writers. At our next meeting we'll be discussing 'Man Alive' by Thomas Page McBee. What does it mean to be a man? This is the question Thomas Page McBee sets out to answer at the brink of…

Queer Book Club 3: Giovanni’s Room

The Queer Book Club is a space for LGBT+ people and anybody else to discuss books by LGBT writers. At our next meeting we'll be discussing James Baldwin's 1956 novel, 'Giovanni's Room.' The book club will take place in the Partisan Meeting Room on the 1st floor. If you get lost, just message the page.…

Partisan Bookclub – Nevada by Imogen Binnie

Next meeting of our bookclub! We're reading Nevada by Imogen Binnie. All members are welcome to join & chat (or just listen). Ebook here: https://www.haveyoureadnevada.club/. If you prefer your books made out of paper then it looks like Amazon's the only option - but there's plenty of time for a few people to share a copy!…

Partisan Book Club – Woman on the Edge of Time

Partisan book club is back in a physical space! To celebrate our return to the corporeal world, we'll be making this one a pot luck - so please do bring a dish or snacks if you can! You're also welcome to bring along your own booze and soft drinks. ----------- Join us at Partisan's new…

Vincent Bevins: If We Burn Book Talk

Partisan Collective

From 2010 to 2020, more people took part in protests than at any other point in human history. Why has success been so elusive? From the so-called Arab Spring to Gezi Park in Turkey, from Ukraine’s Euromaidan to student rebellions in Chile and Hong Kong, the second decade of the twenty-first century was propelled by…

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