Cancelled Confessions: Celebrating Queer Pioneer Claude Cahun

We're thrilled to collaborate with Thin Man Press in celebrating the publication of Claude Cahun’s masterpiece, 'Aveux non Avenus' in translation (as 'Cancelled Confessions') and to present a rare opportunity to view large prints of all ten of the original photomontages from the book.

Best known for their photographic work, Cancelled Confessions reveals Claude Cahun to also be a major surrealist writer and pioneering queer activist. Cahun co-founded the first French gay magazine in 1924 – exactly one hundred years ago.

The event will feature readings from the text, followed by Dr Darcy Leigh in conversation with Susan de Muth who translated the text. There will be an opportunity to ask questions.

Thin Man Press is a small independent London-based ‘publisher of the unexpected’, founded in 2009.

www.thinmanpress.com

Susan de Muth is a writer, translator and editor based in London

www.susandemuth.com

Dr Darcy Leigh is a Senior Lecturer in Law at the University of Sussex, where she researches the legacies of British colonialism for today's politics of race, gender and sexuality. This includes a focus on trans, Jewish, Indigenous and antifascist resistance in the wake of empire. Darcy has been an organiser or teacher at a range of radical Jewish and/or decolonial education projects, including Queer Yeshiva and the Akitsiraq Law School. She co-runs Easter Road Press, an insurrectionary transfeminist DIY press based in Leith, which publishes work on trans life, bodies, and health, among other things. Darcy loves femmes, butches, her trade union, Hashem, and birds.