SUBTEXTS PRESENTS: Queer Death & Mourning: Sam McBean and Zoe Holman

When: Wednesday, April 9, 2025, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Where: BLOC Cinema, Arts One Builiding, Queen Mary University of London, Mile End Road, London, E1 4NS

Readings from Sam McBean (School of The Arts) and Zoe Holman (PhD, QMUL)

Sam McBean is Reader in Gender, Sexuality, and Contemporary Culture at QMUL and chair of the Sexual Cultures Research Group. She is the author of Feminism’s Queer Temporalities (Routledge, 2016) and has published widely on feminist theory, queer theory, and contemporary literature and visual culture. Sam will be reading an excerpt from a work-in-progress essay exploring death, queer kinship, and time, filtered through personal experience and training/working as a death doula. TR: death, grief.

Zoe Holman is an Australian writer of journalism, poetry and non-fiction, based between London and Athens. She is the author Where the Water Ends: seeking refuge in fortress Europe and is working on her second book project, a collection of experimental non-fiction essays through a Creative Writing PhD at QMUL. Zoe will be reading from this current project, sharing an excerpt from an essay about the death of a Greek trans individual, set against the backdrop of reflections on migration and violence more broadly.

All are welcome, but please sign up via "Book now" which takes you to Eventbrite web page.

Organised by the School of the Arts and the HSS Research Centre Centre for Contemporary Writing (CCW).