Friends in Common - Queer History Workshop
Join Laura C. Forster and Joel White for a workshop exploring themes of friendship, political struggle, and Queer history. As a group weāll talk through some of the key ideas in their 2025 book Friends in Common, drawing on our own experiences and friendships. Weāll then collectively construct an āanti-family treeā, tracing lineages of friends and friends of friends that have shaped our political subjectivities. In doing so we ask:
- How might we understand history as a form of intergenerational friendship?
- Can we think about friendships themselves as archives?
- How can we highlight the informal, intimate, and irreplicable affects of friendship?
šPractical Workshop Information! š
This workshop is free!
Copies of Friends in Common will be available to purchase at the event. There will also be copies available using the bookshop pay-it-forward fund.
š A note on the bookshop space and expectations. The bookshop space is small, so events like this tend to be magical, intimate, low key and occassionally chaotic. Seating is a mix of some chairs with backs, as well as benches, stools and floor cusions. Lighting is soft and low. The big doors can open for ventilation - and we always do a check before we start to make sure everyone is comfortable, and to make sure everyone who needs a seat has one. Get in touch if you need a space reserved.
Please note: There is (still) no bathroom at the bookshop. The closest accessible toilets are Glad Cafe, Bungo and Tramway.
The bookshop has level access from the street. Let us know if you need more venue information or have specific questions on access / disability / neurodiversity needs.