We are delighted to announce the launch of the Queer-Kuir-\u039a\u03bf\u03c5\u03ae\u03c1 Cyprus MegaZine project created by the Write\/Right to the World Group, School of English, for LGBTQ+ history month. <\/p>\n
Join the zoomcast on Friday 5th March from 4pm to celebrate the release of\u00a0With Love from Postcolonial and Partitioned Queer Cyprus<\/i><\/b>,<\/i>\u00a0a Mega-Zine with o<\/strong>ver 25 literary and artistic queer voices\u00a0<\/b>subject to sites without rights.<\/p>\n The event will feature\u00a0live readings, performances, and screenings<\/b>\u00a0that will create queer spaces, times and energies with\u00a0the opportunity to ask questions to the authors, artists and editors.<\/p>\n Through these voices\u00a0<\/b>you will see and hear about the\u00a0\u2018<\/b>LGBTQIA-to-Z\u2019 lived experiences related to colonial, postcolonial and partitioned failures, recent\u00a0failures linked to anti-LGBTQ+ rhetoric in Turkey, and anti-corruption peaceful protests in Cyprus, among various other socio-political failures across the world.<\/p>\n Our MegaZine has been produced with love from Cyprus and in solidarity with the LGBTQ+ community, who struggle for their right to Cyprus, right to the Mediterranean, and right to the World.<\/p>\n Sponsored by the Centre for Colonial and Postcolonial Studies and the Centre for Creative Writing, University of Kent, the project has been co-created\/edited together with Dr Bahriye Kemal and the undergraduate and postgraduate student body\u00a0 – Shelby Anderson, Rebecca Copsey, Guy Forster-Pearce, IG, Kaan Serin, Elizabeth Watson – who are studying the modules Right\/Write to the World: Displacement, Social Movement and Political Action, as well as the Contemporary, Reaching Out to the Community, and Colonial and Postcolonial Discourse.<\/p>\n To book your space for Queer Mega-Zine launch go\u00a0here.<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n The MegaZine will be available in two forms: a handmade bespoke version that can be pre-ordered, and a free E-Zine released by donations. All proceeds will be go to a\u00a0LGBTQI+ charity.\u00a0\u00a0To order your Queer Mega-Zine or if you have any question please email: write.righttotheworld@gmail.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" We are delighted to announce the launch of the Queer-Kuir-\u039a\u03bf\u03c5\u03ae\u03c1 Cyprus MegaZine project created by the Write\/Right to the World Group, School of English, for … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":74034,"featured_media":3471,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[112454,124],"tags":[112454,22926],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3470"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/74034"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3470"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3470\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3474,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3470\/revisions\/3474"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}