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Opening Party / Fuck What They Think @ Penarth Centre, Jul 15

13 July 2016

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Fuck What They Think kicks off @Gaybar‘s two-week programme with the non-profit event Opening Party at Penarth Centre in London on July 15.

With DJ sets by DJ Summer Faggot Deathwish and DJ Tschan @Gaybar aims to “build an ark” where people can “mourn and dance” after the recent mass shooting in Orlando and of PoC across the U.S.

@Gaybar’s programme extends through July 30th promising more parties and dancing. Other events include a 3- day QTIPOC Twerkshop with Fannie Sosa, an evening of readings by Liv Wynter, Caspar Jade Heinemann, and Aurelia Guo, ‘Section 28 Film Club‘ hosted by Sam Cottington, and a performance by Chloe AD Fiilani in collaboration with Shenece Oretha.

See the FB event page page for more details.**

Opening Party / Fuck What They Think @Gaybar

Hannah Quinlan Anderson & Rosie Hastings, ‘Becoming Natural’ (2014), Still. Courtesy Arcadia Missa, London.

Gaybar celebrates Leslie Feinberg @ Rye Lane Studios, Dec 10

9 December 2014

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Gaybar continues its Where is the body series at London’s Rye Lane Studios with a night dedicated to Leslie Feinberg on December 10.

The series founders, Hannah Quinlan Anderson and Rosie Hastings (Sonya Blade on FB) follow up August’s Monique Wittig reading and September’s Jackie Wang reading with a special night dedicated to the recently passed Leslie Feinberg, US transgender activist and author of the amazing Stone Butch Blues.

The night will feature free-flowing tequila, special readings by Hannah Black, Aimee Heinemann and Jesse Darling, as well as a screening of Anderson and Hasting’s new film.

See the FB event page for details. **

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Where is the body #4 @ Rye Lane Studios, Sep 21

19 September 2014

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London’s Rye Lane Studios is bringing back Where is the body #4 with a reading of Jackie Wang‘s Against Innocence on September 21.

The critical reading series’s last run, Where is the body #3, also took place at the Rye Lane space with a reading of Monique Wittig’s The Straight Mind, closing off the three-day I Don’t Know Why I Like It, I Just Do, Dick Dick Dick exhibition that ran as part of GayBar@Rye Lane Studios.

On Sunday, Where is the body-creators Hannah Quinlan Anderson and Rosie Hastings (Sonya Blade) take on Wang’s latest, Against Innocence, originally published in 2012 in Volume 1 of the materialist feminist journal, Lies. Where as some of Wang’s earlier writing, including zines like On Being Hard Femme and The Phallic Titty Manifesto, looked at queer sexuality and gender, Almost Innocence dives headfirst into race politics with her examination of the political response to the murder of Troy Davis and the role of legal system as an agent of racial violence.

See the FB event page for details. **

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I Don’t Know Why I Like It… @ Gay Bar, Aug 29 – 31

27 August 2014

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London’s Rye Lane Studios will be hosting the I Don’t Know Why I Like It, I Just Do, Dick Dick Dick @GayBar exhibition from August 29 to 31.

With the institution of ‘gay’ deemed inextricable from the shifting logics of the gay bar itself, the exhibition and event series aims to re-fabricate the mythology of homosexuality. Starting with a private viewing and launch party on August 29, I Don’t Know Why I Like It… looks for a space of confused gender and sexuality, where “a sincere expression of embodiment unravels into a critique of these bodies”.

Created by Hannah Quinlan Anderson and Rosie Hastings, who are also the short exhibition’s headliners, Friday’s launch party will feature cheap cocktails, an exclusive guest list, and back-to-back DJs, including a DJing debut from Sam Thottington as Summer Faggot Death Wish with some “high-energy sad bliss faggot vibes” and a “#guninmypurse” dress code.

Aside from Thottington, the promo for the exhibition is done in collaboration with Sam Kenswil and Aimee Heinemann, and the three-day series will also feature a discussion of Monique Wittig’s The Straight Mind at the Where is the Body #3 event on August 31.

See the FB event page for details. **

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