IMPORTANT ACCESS INFO - THIS EVENT IS BEING HELD UPSTAIRS AT THE OLD NUN'S HEAD. ACCESS IS ONLY VIA STAIRCASE. THERE IS NO LIFT.
This is the final planned session in our reading group as we have come to the end of the texts we set out to read. After reading group we will stick around for drinks and chats. If you can't make this session but want a chance to say goodbye or swap numbers with other readers let us know and we'll try to organise another - more accessible - social on another date.
The event: Want to learn more about the issues that shaped dyke and queer politics in 1990s Britain? Love lesbian herstory but don’t have time for pre-reading or don’t fancy giving up your evenings to theory heavy workshops? Why not come to the pub with us instead?
Since October 2024 readers have been joining Nazmia and Swithun once a month as they read their way through the entire Lesbians Talk Issues pamphlet series in the order they were published. Join us for one last reading group as we come to the end of the seventh pamphlet. Read aloud in turn with us or just come and listen and take part in discussions prompted by issues raised in the pamphlet.
In this session we will continue reading Lesbians Talk Detonating the Nuclear Family by Julia Brosnan. You can download a PDF in advance here, we got up to the top of p32 (of the pamphlet not the PDF) last time.
The Lesbians Talk Issues series is made up of seven pamphlets published between 1992 and 1996. The series aimed to “provide a forum in which topics of current interest within the international lesbian community can be dissected and discussed with immediacy and flexibility”. In order the series comprises: Queer Notions by Cherry Smyth (1992), (Safer) Sex by Sue O’Sullivan and Pratibha Parmar (1992), Making Black Waves by Valerie Mason-John and Ann Khambatta (1993), Left Politics by Kristina Studzinski (1994), Violent Relationships by Joelle Taylor and Tracey Chandler (1995), Transgender by Zachary I. Nataf (1996) and Detonating the Nuclear Family by Julia Brosnan (1996). Long out of print, the series has been recently digitised and is free to read as part of the Bishopsgate Institute’s digital archive.
This is a queer reading group that prioritises a lesbian lens, and is open to everyone interested in learning more about these pamphlets and the topics they cover. In discussions we aim to foreground the contributions of lesbians and particularly welcome those who are represented by the specific pamphlets being covered e.g. black lesbians or trans people who are part of lesbian communities.
Aim to arrive by 6.50pm for a 7pm start.
Location: The Old Nun's Head, Nunhead Green, SE15 3QQ.
Tickets: Please book in advance so we can take numbers into account.
Ticket price is pay-what-you-can and our suggested ticket price is £3.
There is also a free ticket option - no one will be turned away for lack of funds.
Any money raised through tickets will go to MAP - Medical Aid for Palestine.
More info: Email lesbianstalkissues@gmail.com or check/message @lesbians_talk_issues on Instagram.