The Grey Area Writing Group and Book Club
This monthly event for trans and queer book lovers includes a guided writing session and book club discussion.
Meet and share work with like-minded people at The Grey Area. Each month, the group meets for a guided writing session, followed by a book club. You can join one or both sessions – and don't be put off coming if you didn't finish the book, you can still join in the discussion or listen to others chat about it.
The guided writing session runs from 6.30pm to 7.30pm. Suitable for all levels of experience, you'll be given prompts and can work on an existing project, or something new.
There's then a short break before an informal, welcoming discussion about that month's book, finishing at 8.30pm. Alternating between fiction and non-fiction, past titles have included Some Strange Music Draws Me In by Griffin Hansbury and On Freedom by Maggie Nelson.
Sessions are run by Grey Marlow, the founder of Bender Zine, a literary zine interested in blending genres of writing, and are part of our ongoing Queering the Whitworth project. Please contact greyareabooks@gmail.com for more information.
Upcoming dates
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Islamophobia is everywhere. It is a narrative and history woven so deeply into our everyday lives that we don’t even notice it – in our education, how we travel, our healthcare, legal system and at work. Behind the scenes it affects the most vulnerable, at the border and in prisons. Despite this, the conversation about Islamophobia is relegated to microaggressions and slurs.
Suhaiymah Manzoor-Khan reveals how Islamophobia not only lives under the skin of those who it marks, but is an international political project designed to divide people in the name of security, in order to materially benefit global stakeholders. It can only be truly uprooted when we focus not on what it is but what it does.
Thursday 27 November
6.30pm - 8.30pm
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