Welcome to Reading Club at La Camionera, where we read and discuss queer, literary and theory classics, every Sunday from 3pm!
Feel free to arrive early to do some reading before we begin (or stay later and keep chatting!) Each session will begin with an introduction to the text of the week, before opening up into group discussion and a chance to break off into smaller circles. Every attendee will receive a book review card to fill out, prompts to guide discussion, and a suggestion for further readings.
Drop in for your favourites, or join us every week. Readers of all experiences very welcome. Finishing the text beforehand is advised but not essential <3
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Reading List #1 (Autumn 2025): Indulge in tales of introspection, eroticism and transformation, as we trace desire through the strange and the beautiful..
Week 1 (Nov 2): Orlando – Virginia Woolf
Week 2 (Nov 16): The Hour of the Star – Clarice Lispector
Week 3 (Nov 23): Eros the Bittersweet – Anne Carson
Week 4 (Nov 30): Zami: A New Spelling of My Name – Audre Lorde
Week 5 (Dec 7): Woman of the Flowers – Jean Genet
Week 6 (Dec 14): Giovanni’s Room – James Baldwin
Week 1: Orlando – Virginia Woolf
We begin Reading Club with Virginia Woolf’s time-travelling trans odyssey—and extended love-letter to Vita Sackville West—Orlando. In this fantastical faux-biography, we follow our hero Orlando as he moves through centuries, transforming from his life as a spoilt Elizabethan prince into a housewife bourne to witness the mounting Suffragette Movement.
Prompts:
How does Woolf ask us to interrogate the multiply selfs within us?
How does Woold ask us to relish in the act of living?
READ THE PDF (p46-) - HERE
BUY ORLANDO SECONDHAND - HERE
WATCH TILDA SWINTON IN SALLY POTTER’S ‘ORLANDO’ (1992) - HERE