Hear from the authors of the landmark book ’Desi Queers’ Churnjeet Mahn and DJ Ritu as they speak to creativity and activism, queer South Asian life in 1980s London and their book.
Join Mark Vernon, author of ‘Awake! William Blake and the Power of the Imagination’, and philosopher Nigel Warburton for a morning of Philosophy in the Bookshop. They will discuss the themes of Mark’s new book.
Join psychotherapist and podcaster Mark Vernon, author of ‘Awake! William Blake and the Power of the Imagination’ and religion researcher Esmé Partridge, for an exclusive masterclass on the meaning and mythos of Blake.
Luka Ivan Jukic and Dr Barnabás Szabó interrogate the idea of a European ‘middle’, ahead of the publication of ‘Central Europe’.
Head to Queer Lit for an empowering evening with award-winning journalist, activist, and disability rights advocate Rachel Charlton-Dailey to explore what it truly means to fight for accessibility, representation, and justice.
Join Mark Vernon for a talk on how William Blake relates to AI and the Recovery of Human Intelligence at the Glastonbury Symposium.
Join Alan Lester, editor of ‘The Truth About Empire’, in conversation with Sathnam Sanghera, as they discuss the themes of both of their most recent publications.
Join Rachel Charlton-Dailey for the launch of her new book ‘Ramping Up Rights’. Rachel will talk about how, often, disabled people and their allies have fought, and won. She gives them the energy to keep fighting back.
Join Churnjeet Mahn, Rohit K. Dasgupta and DJ Ritu for the launch of ‘Desi Queers’. The book launch will be accompanied by a special screening of ‘My Beautiful Laundrette’, the groundbreaking 1985 classic which portrays the experience of a gay South Asian man in 1980s Britain.
Celebrate South Asian Heritage Month with a powerful conversation on Queer South Asian stories with Churnjeet Mahn, co-author of ‘Desi Queers’.
To mark 30 years since the Disability Discrimination Act, activist Rachel Charlton-Dailey joins Caro Clarke to discuss ‘Ramping Up Rights’ which brings together inspiring stories of over 100 years of disability activism.
Dig deeper with the Thought Exercise series at Edinburgh International Book Festival. Danny Dorling, author of ‘Seven Children’, provides an eye-opening investigation into childhood inequality in post-pandemic Britain.
Nothing left to load.