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Gettin Stairtit wi Writin Scots: A Workshop with Harry Josephine Giles

Sunday 10 August 14:00 - 15:30

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Today, Orcadian poet and novelist Harry Josephine Giles (Deep Wheel Orcadia and Them!) leads a series of exercises for folk looking for a way into working with Scots…
 

Queerly Beloved

Sunday 10 August 18:15 - 19:15

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Join Kirsty Logan as she chats to a warm and lively panel of queer writers, including Harry Josephine Giles and Alan Hollinghurst, as they share the books which inspired them as writers and the stories they wish they could have read sooner…
 

Harry Josephine Giles & Malin Lewis: Future Traditions for Queer Scotland

Thursday 14 August 19:15 - 20:15

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Join us for a dazzling celebration of Unco, a new LGBT+ Scots lexicon. Harry Josephine Giles and Malin Lewis present a unique spoken word and music performance, blending old and new language and sounds to explore queer identities and histories…
 

Torrey Peters: Dancing with Gender

Saturday 16 August 17:45 - 18:45

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Torrey Peters’ bestselling novel Detransition, Baby burst onto shelves in 2021. Her follow-up, the vibrant and ambitious Stag Dance, waltzes across four breathtaking tales that explore the space between male and female, binary and non-binary, and delight…
 

Who Will Be Remembered Here

Sunday 17 August 14:45 - 15:45

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2025 marks 30 years since the first major Pride event in Scotland, yet queer histories have existed for as long as Scotland has. who will be remembered here enlivens these histories through performances, films, and an anthology…
 

Maggie Nelson: How Does a Body Connect with Itself?

Sunday 17 August 17:45 - 18:45

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Maggie Nelson's intellectually nimble works of non-fiction (including The Argonauts) have earned her both Guggenheim and MacArthur Fellowships along with a reputation as one her generation's most versatile thinkers. Her latest work, Pathemata: Or, The…