Posts Tagged ‘Queer in Brighton’

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Queer in Brighton & Elsewhere…

08/03/2014

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‘Queer in Brighton’, a book of lesbian, gay, bi  & Trans* queer creative writing, excerpts of oral his-her-their-stories and  ‘not going shopping’ photography images, was launched on 26th February at Brighton&Hove’s Jubilee Library after its 18month-long gestation.  See…

http://www.queerinbrighton.co.uk/about/

http://photoworks.org.uk/projects/queer-in-brighton/

https://offthetrolleyproductions.wordpress.com/2013/08/30/acronyms-can-be-subhumane/ (an earlier post re my participation in the ‘not going shopping’ photography project)

Before there was being resident (queer) in Brighton and off-on-holiday in Devon, there was (my being queer) living in Devon – but off-on-holiday in Brighton (& London): all captured in the photo-journalling (including out-going-shopping) that started on a modest Nokia fonecamera back in April 2010, putting written diary-journalling on the back burner after 40something-long years…

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Acronyms can be SUBHUMAN(E)…

30/08/2013

Acronyms ‘R’ Sometimes Useful But Hugely Undermine Memory And Nuance (Expression)…

This was my conclusion after I found myself in a discussion regarding GLT&B (‘AKA’ LGBT…) in a photography group known as ‘Not Going Shopping’ – part of the Queer in Brighton oral and visual his-her-their-story-making that has been going on since last Autumn…

You can read more of my thoughts (and others’) on that issue on the blogspace of the group at this link:

http://notgoingshopping.blogspot.co.uk/

Meanwhile, here’s a fotomosaic of some of the shots I’ve taken of and for this group – inclusive of the ever-necessary break-time refreshments…

‘To Shop or Not to Shop? (To L&G and Not TB?) – this (or that) is the Going Question…’

= my post on the Not Going Shopping blogger space & also includes a fotovideo based on 21 shots taken in one Sunday (am thru pm) which reflect upon self-ID-entity…

The fotovideo can be seen right here too…

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