By Phoenix (they/them) Am I a one and done kinda bitch?or am I a one and two and breathless whispersover an ocean. Two and threeand me and you and themand who needs to define what we are? we are breathlessand eternal and never ending.the line… Read More »Valentines Poetry, 2021: Untitled.
By Adebayo Quadry-Adekanbi With thanks to Dan Vo This blog post aims to serve as a guide for our journey of disrupting, reconceptualising and re-queering Rotimi Fani-Kayode’s works. In a podcast episode with queer/disrupt, Dan Vo and I delve into Fani-Kayode’s pieces and attempt to… Read More »Re-Queering and Reconceptualising the work of Rotimi Fani-Kayode
By dipbuk panchal How can I subdue my skin colour? How am I supposed to suppress my brownness? The purpose of this blog is to seek to put you the reader, for a very brief moment into my shoes. I am relatively new to this… Read More »Being Queer and Brown in Coventry
By Sue Lemos Black and Brown LGBTQ+ people have a vibrant history of activism and community spaces in Britain, but it was only until I delved into the ruckus! Black Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Trans cultural archive and Black and Brown lesbian herstories that I… Read More »‘I thanked the ancestors it is not something you can box up neatly’: uncovering stories of Black and Brown LGBTQ+ activism in post-war Britain
By Dawn Woolley (she/her) and AC Davidson (she/they). Do we experience and express our gender identities differently in pandemic lockdown? Can sharing selfies via Instagram be a way to collectively queer the gender binary? These questions and our own experiences of lockdown led us to… Read More »Bois of Isolation – Queering Gender Binaries in the Confines of Pandemic
The 6th June 2020 marks the two-year anniversary of Queer History Warwick (QHW)! We wanted to mark our anniversary with a post that tells a little of our story.
An article titled ‘Queer History Matters’ by Hannah Ayres.
A review of our first online event ‘Ibi Profane’s Dragged Through History’ by Hannah Ayres.
A research article titled ‘Power Flip: Intimate Archives and the Ethics of History’ by Kate Davison.
A research piece titled ‘Through A Glass Queerly: Recouping LGBT+ Heritage from the Archives’ written by Victoria Yates with Dr. James Hopkins and Dr. Megan Todd.
