An LGBTQ+ book club in SE London celebrating community, intersectionality and radical reading!
Queers for Books is a relaxed book club where each month we vote on a book to read as a group where we will then meet to discuss it at our in-person meets at Corner, New Cross!
Reading the book is not essential but it does help! We like to have disucssions that use the books themes and characters as useful jumping off points to explore big questions the queer community face more broadly. Anyone can contribute to our discussions, we are safe and inclusive space, no disrespect for the opinions of others will be tolerated.
Our book choice for February is Sapphistries: A Global History of Love Between Women - Leila J. Rupp!
Description for this book by Storygraph:
"From the ancient poet Sappho to tombois in contemporary Indonesia, women throughout history and around the globe have desired, loved, and had sex with other women. In beautiful prose, Sapphistries tells their stories, capturing the multitude of ways that diverse societies have shaped female same-sex sexuality across time and place.
Leila J. Rupp reveals how, from the time of the very earliest societies, the possibility of love between women has been known, even when it is feared, ignored, or denied. We hear women in the sex-segregated spaces of convents and harems whispering words of love. We see women beginning to find each other on the streets of London and Amsterdam, in the aristocratic circles of Paris, in the factories of Shanghai. We find women's desire and love for women meeting the light of day as Japanese schoolgirls fall in love, and lesbian bars and clubs spread from 1920s Berlin to 1950s Buffalo. And we encounter a world of difference in the twenty-first century, as transnational concepts and lesbian identities meet local understandings of how two women might love each other.
Giving voice to words from the mouths and pens of women, and from men's prohibitions, reports, literature, art, imaginings, pornography, and court cases, Rupp also creatively employs fiction to imagine possibilities when there is no historical evidence. Sapphistries combines lyrical narrative with meticulous historical research, providing an eminently readable and uniquely sweeping story of desire, love, and sex between women around the globe from the beginning of time to the present."
If you want to be part of the voting for next months book please follow our Intsagram @queersforbooks and join our WhatsApp group: https://chat.whatsapp.com/L78JnYQm7paE7AR5wypxqp
Can't wait to see you there!
An LGBTQ+ book club in SE London celebrating community, intersectionality and radical reading!
Queers for Books is a relaxed book club where each month we vote on a book to read as a group where we will then meet to discuss it at our in-person meets at Corner, New Cross!
Reading the book is not essential but it does help! We like to have disucssions that use the books themes and characters as useful jumping off points to explore big questions the queer community face more broadly. Anyone can contribute to our discussions, we are safe and inclusive space, no disrespect for the opinions of others will be tolerated.
Our book choice for February is Sapphistries: A Global History of Love Between Women - Leila J. Rupp!
Description for this book by Storygraph:
"From the ancient poet Sappho to tombois in contemporary Indonesia, women throughout history and around the globe have desired, loved, and had sex with other women. In beautiful prose, Sapphistries tells their stories, capturing the multitude of ways that diverse societies have shaped female same-sex sexuality across time and place.
Leila J. Rupp reveals how, from the time of the very earliest societies, the possibility of love between women has been known, even when it is feared, ignored, or denied. We hear women in the sex-segregated spaces of convents and harems whispering words of love. We see women beginning to find each other on the streets of London and Amsterdam, in the aristocratic circles of Paris, in the factories of Shanghai. We find women's desire and love for women meeting the light of day as Japanese schoolgirls fall in love, and lesbian bars and clubs spread from 1920s Berlin to 1950s Buffalo. And we encounter a world of difference in the twenty-first century, as transnational concepts and lesbian identities meet local understandings of how two women might love each other.
Giving voice to words from the mouths and pens of women, and from men's prohibitions, reports, literature, art, imaginings, pornography, and court cases, Rupp also creatively employs fiction to imagine possibilities when there is no historical evidence. Sapphistries combines lyrical narrative with meticulous historical research, providing an eminently readable and uniquely sweeping story of desire, love, and sex between women around the globe from the beginning of time to the present."
If you want to be part of the voting for next months book please follow our Intsagram @queersforbooks and join our WhatsApp group: https://chat.whatsapp.com/L78JnYQm7paE7AR5wypxqp
Can't wait to see you there!
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