SPILL is a space to speak, listen, laugh, and rage as we engage with texts across time, geography, class, and experience. Centering Black queer voices, SPILL recognises the margins as a realm of creativity, insight, liberation, and knowledge. SPILL's focus is literature by writers of Black African descent whose work tangles with queer themes, narratives, ideas, and yearnings. Let's flee regimes of normativity together and celebrate that which has historically been repressed, subjugated, stomped down, and erased.
The first meeting of SPILL will take place Thursday 4 May at 6:30 at The Common Press, located on Bethnal Green Road, just off of Brick Lane. Go to the back of the book shop, through the door and turn left to the bar space that was formerly the Common Counter.
Our first selection is FUGITIVE FEMINISM by Akwugo Emejulu, a manifesto honouring the figure of the fugitive as someone who's made a bold grasp toward freedom by deserting that which no longer serves.
Our second meeting takes place 8 June, in which we'll read LOTE by Shola von Reinhold.