Queer in a Wee Place: Small Nations, Sexuality and Scotland

Join us during LGBT History Month at Strathclyde for the pre-publication launch of Queer in a Wee Place: Small Nations, Sexuality and Space (Bloomsbury, 2023), an open access collection edited by Yvette Taylor that explores how queerness is shaped by – and moves through – place.

Focusing on Scotland as a ‘wee place’ ,the book brings together interdisciplinary sexualities scholarship, activism, creative practice, and legislative and cultural critique to examine identity, inequality, and belonging. Through case studies spanning law, policy, cultural institutions, education, and everyday life, Queer in a Wee Place offers an in-depth analysis of Scottish queer experience while situating it within wider global dynamics.

The launch event will feature panel contributions from authors in the collection, including Kirstie Ken English on The Construction of Scotland’s LGBTQ+ Population in the Census; Kirsty Dunlop and Maria Sledmere presenting Brilliant Vibrating Interface: Queering the Post-Internet through Poetry and Practice; Churnjeet Mahn on Black Scottish Writing and the Fiction of Diversity; Marco Reggiani discussing Welcome Home? Finding Your (Queer) Place in Scotland and in STEM; Jack McKinlay on Disabled Queer Student Experiences of Scottish Higher Education; and Yvette Taylor on Queer Provincialisms in (Post-)Brexit Britain.

‘Fresh, insightful, thought-provoking - Queer in a wee Place takes us on a journey across a wide terrain. Scotland in all its multiplicity. Scotland anew!’ Jackie Kay

https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/queer-in-a-wee-place-9781350513020/

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Host or Publisher Yvette Taylor