Lighthouse x Kafe Kweer: Pop Up Bookshop collab!
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Thrilled to have kicked off LGBTQ+ History Month with a new Lighthouse outpost at Kafe Kweer! You can now pick up queer bookish delights & radical reads when you're in for one of their delectable coffees or enjoying some cabaret or doing your eco shop at their refill station.
Kafe Kweer are one of Edinburgh's few explicitly queer alcohol-free spots, run by two of the scene's favourites (Zak and Oskar, aka Mystika Glamour) - it's eco-friendly and community driven and we're so honoured by have a wee book corner in their wonderful space. Our wee pop up is complete with:
- Pay-It-Forward pot in case you’re too broke for books (remember you can use pay it forward on the website too using the code SOLIDARITY-BOOK-LOVE)
- Spotlights of #OtherFruitBookclub (reading Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo), and the launch of #AtLeastThisIKnow
- Wee reviews for forever faves by Audre Lorde & Sam J Miller
- Bags! For all your new books & delicious Kafe Kweer treats!
Here's a wee peek at some of the books that made it into our first selection!
Linked Books
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- Blackfish City
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- Miller, Sam J.
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- Your Silence Will Not Protect You : Essays and Poems
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- Lorde, Audre
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- The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
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- Taylor Jenkins Reid
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- We Were Always Here : A Queer Words Anthology
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- Vance, Ryan
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- The Air Year
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- Bird, Caroline
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- At Least This I Know
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- Andres Ordorica
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- On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
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- Vuong, Ocean
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- Things We Say in the Dark
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- Logan, Kirsty
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- Biscuits : Assorted
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- Robins, Jenny
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- How to Understand Your Sexuality : A Practical Guide for Exploring Who You are
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- Barker, Meg-John, Iantaffi, Alex, Scheele, Jules
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- No Modernism Without Lesbians
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- Souhami, Diana
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- All The Things She Said : Everything I Know About Modern Lesbian and Bi Culture
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- Daisy Jones
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- They / Them / Their : A Guide to Nonbinary and Genderqueer Identities
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- Young, Eris
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- Sexuality : A Graphic Guide
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- Barker, Meg-John, Scheele, Jules
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- How to Be Ace : A Memoir of Growing Up Asexual
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- Burgess, Rebecca
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- Speaking Up : Understanding Language and Gender
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- Jule, Allyson
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- On His Royal Badness : The Life and Legacy of Prince's Fashion
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- Ritchie, Casci
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- Love That Journey For Me : The Queer Revolution of Schitt's Creek
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- Garside, Emily
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- The End : Surviving the World Through Fictional Disasters
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- Katie Goh
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- The Appendix : Transmasculine Joy in a Transphobic Culture
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- Konemann, Liam
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- I Hope We Choose Love : A Trans Girl's Notes from the End of the World
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- Cheng Thom, Kai
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- Detransition, Baby
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- Peters, Torrey
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- Boy Queen
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- Lester, George
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- Me, My Dad and the End of the Rainbow
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- Dean, Benjamin, Prabhat, Sandhya
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- This Book is Gay
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- Dawson, Juno
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- What's the T? : The no-nonsense guide to being trans and/or non-binary for teens
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- Dawson, Juno, Soofiya
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- Moonchild: Voyage of the Lost and Found
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- Bushby, Aisha
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- Gender Explorers : Our Stories of Growing Up TRANS and Changing the World
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- Roche, Juno
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- Beyond the Gender Binary
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- Vaid-Menon, Alok
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- Brick by Brick
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- Cradle Community
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- Experiments in Imagining Otherwise
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- Olufemi, Lola
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- Things I Have Withheld
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- Miller, Kei