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Performing Belonging – Town
I took my starting point from Richard Scott’s poem ‘Oh my Soho!’ in so much as I wanted to insist
Performing Belonging – Queerplatonic Love Poems
I present these three poems here without additional commentary: >PART 4 – Performing Belonging – Town
Performing Belonging – Queer Belonging & Place
Performing queer belonging means finding a sense of community. It is difficult, although perhaps not impossible, to perform belonging on
Performing Belonging – Counting the Ways
If these are unfamiliar terms, AVEN and AUREA have you covered. There’s also some great stuff on alternative relationship models
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