{"product_id":"q-is-for-garden-in-conversation-with-jenny-chamarette","title":"Q is for Garden: In Conversation with Jenny Chamarette","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"ii gt adO\" id=\":522\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"a3s aiL\" id=\":8fa\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv id=\"avWBGd-14363\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\n\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAs part of Queer History Club we invite you to join Jenny Chamarette in discussing their new title \u003cem\u003eQ is for Garden\u003c\/em\u003e!\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eQ is for Garden is a bold, tender exploration of how queerness and nature entwine - and what happens when we step beyond the binaries that fence us in.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eWhen Jenny Chamarette faced a devastating health crisis, they found themselves unmoored from the rules of gender, sexuality and productivity. In a small South London garden, Jenny began to imagine another way of living: porous, unruly, rooted in the lessons of soil and plant life. Gardens, like identities, are usually bounded - but what if those limits can be re-drawn?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eBlending memoir and cultural criticism, this book asks whether the categories we inherit - colonial, patriarchal, conventions of sexuality and gender - still serve us, or whether they confine us. From illness and recovery to queer love and ecological wonder, Q is for Garden invites readers to reimagine how we inhabit land, culture and each other. An eloquent work of nature writing and queer thought, Q is for Garden digs into the rich history of queer gardeners, botanists, artists and agriculturalists. It offers a hopeful vision of belonging, if we are curious enough to unearth it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDuring the event Jenny will be in conversation with our very own Liza Bulgakova, followed by an open Q\u0026amp;A and, of course, book signing!\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJenny Chamarette\u003c\/strong\u003e is an author, educator, artist and curator based in London. An internationally recognised essayist and cultural critic, their writing has featured in Sight \u0026amp; Sound, been longlisted and shortlisted for the Nan Shepherd and Fitzcarraldo essay prizes and published in anthologies by Saraband and Elliott \u0026amp; Thompson. Their art writing has been commissioned by Unit and Grand Union galleries and appeared in outlets such as Another Gaze, LUX and Club des Femmes. Jenny is also Commissioning Co-Editor for the MAI Feminism and Visual Culture imprint of Punctum Books. When not writing they are usually in the garden or the allotment.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003eAs well as being part of The Bookish Type team, \u003cstrong\u003eLiza Bulgakova\u003c\/strong\u003e is an artist \u0026amp; co-director of The Grief Garden CIC - \u003cspan\u003ea community-led project that invites people who are experiencing grief to work together to co-create a garden as a place of acceptance, connection and healing. 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