Weekend Reading List
A reading list in memory of the British MP Jo Cox and those who were tragically killed at Pulse Club, Orlando, last week
A reading list in memory of the British MP Jo Cox and those who were tragically killed at Pulse Club, Orlando, last week
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‘Gay bars are therapy for people who can’t afford therapy; temples for people who lost their religion, or whose religion lost them; vacations for people who can’t go on vacation; homes for folk without families; sanctuaries against aggression.’
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Polly Toynbee responds to the tragic death of Jo Cox MP and the ‘noxious brew’ of the Brexit campaign.
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How are post-Orlando debates on Islamophobia and homophobia impacting on the lives of queer Muslims in America?
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‘Chicana, tenjana, working-class, dyke-feminist poet, writer and theorist’ Gloria Anzaldúa’s important essay on the erasure of Chicana language and identity, ‘How to Tame a Wild Tongue’
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‘We are rarely granted the privilege of victimhood’ - the ungrievable lives and unacknowledged suffering of LGBTQ immigrants and people of colour.
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Jasbir Puar discusses homonationalism and the intersections of queer politics and race.
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‘Hate is an easy emotion to provoke but a difficult one to control.’ Dawn Foster on Orlando, Jo Cox and the politics of hate.
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Juliet Jacques describes how Hollis Frampton’s film (nostalgia) (1971) offered her a new model for recording transgender lives and remembering lost friends.
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Frank O’Hara, ‘Lines to a Depressed Friend’ (1953)
