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As Project Lead for Queer Natures, I have the amazing opportunity to pursue my own research project within a broader creative team. In this blog post, I introduce my research focus and share some insights into how creative collaboration has opened up new findings and methods.   Thinking Queerness with Animals In my research for […]

By Mitchel Rowe “Without Sustained remembrance, we cannot learn to live with ghosts and so cannot think” (Hawaway, Staying with the Trouble, 39) “the most striking characteristics of the Barguest type is that it goes out of its way to show the beholder it is no normal dog, but a monster from another world” (Brown, […]

The Queer Language of Flowers By Niamh Burns Perhaps one of the oldest queer symbols, the violet has been linked to lesbian love for over two thousand years. Sappho, or ‘Psappha’ as she would have called herself in her native Aeolic dialect, was a native of Lesbos, a Greek island in the Aegean Sea, around [...]

By Hayden Eccles and Laura Gent Exeter University’s LGBTQ+ Society has a notable history, from its founding in the late 1970s up to today. Initially founded as “GaySoc”, the society aimed to give a safe space to, and connect, members of the gay community on Streatham Campus. To track this history, two former student newspapers, […]

A queer and unusual journey in using hauticulture to find queerness in the most hostile of places. By Ella Harding VIEW PDF: Derek Jarman Garden by Ella Harding or VIEW PLAIN TEXT PDF