Black Queer Fictions and Selves

Date 29 April 2021
Time 5 - 6:30pm
Cost Free
Black History Year Gender and Sexuality

Join us for our last event in our ‘Gender and Sexuality in Black People’ month where we hold a panel discussion on Black Queer Fiction.

About this Event 

As part of the University of Westminster's Black History Year and the School of Humanities New Writing Festival, Paul Mendez and Michael Donkor join Shantel Edwards (Birmingham Literary Festival/Writing West Midlands) to discuss their work. Here they'll reflect on the pleasures and challenges of writing Black queer fictions and selves, as well as taking questions from the audience. 

In the past two years, Paul Mendez's novel, Rainbow Milk (2020), and Michael Donkor's novel, Hold (2018), have both brilliantly interrogated the intricacies of Black queer lives. In these novels, both authors give their readers vibrant young protagonists who are coming into an understanding of themselves, their desires and the worlds around them. 

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