Club Commons x Feminist Library Book Launch

Join us for an intergenerational queer conversation weaving together archival memory, nightlife history, and collective futures.

This evening brings together three icons who shaped London's lesbian and queer scenes from the 1980s and 90s to today: Katherine Griffiths, DJ and researcher who participated in grassroots lesbian nightlife in London through the 80s and 90s; Yvonne Taylor of Sistermatic, the pioneering Black lesbian sound system; and Gin of Nite Dykez, DJ, promoter, and event producer, all of whom feature in the book Club Commons: Moving Bodies to Grow Movements in Queer Nightlife and Beyond by Anjali Prashar-Savoie, out now with Velocity Press.

Alongside the talk, Holobiont presents Naked Souls: a queer archival oracle card intervention as "an invocation of queer clairvoyants against gentrification of the heart and mind." Drawing on histories unearthed from the 56A Infoshop and Southwark Archives, Naked Souls is a deck of oracle cards/fortunes/spells, that invokes obscure queer histories, to chart alternative maps for our futures. It is playful and sometimes frivolous, existing in a makeshift between poetry and instruction.

Original archival flyers from the 1980s and 90s will be on display throughout the evening.