Phyllis Christopher, Fiona Anderson & Amelia Abraham: ‘Sex, Clubs, Dissent’ [Launch & talk]

Join us at The Lubber Fiend in Newcastle to celebrate the release of Sex, Clubs, Dissent: Visualising Queer Nightlife by Amelia Abraham, a new visual history of queer nightlife told through the lens of photographers, filmmakers, and artists, as well as essays and conversations by Brontez Purnell, McKenzie Wark, Rene Matić and Ajamu X, Jack Parlett, Tavia Nyong’o, Adam Zmith, Sita Balani and Sunil Gupta, Ariel Goldberg, Sweatmother, Asa Seresin & more.

On Thursday 11 June, Abraham will be joined in conversation by photographer Phyllis Christopher, whose photographs of the leather community and queer clubs of 1990s San Francisco feature in the book. The talk will be followed with a DJ set by Fiona Anderson, Senior Lecturer in Art History at Newcastle University and resident DJ at The Lubber Fiend.  

TICKETS

Thursday 11 June
18:30 

The Lubber Fiend
81 Blandford Street
Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 3PZ
United Kingdom

About Sex, Clubs, Dissent

This book explores how image-making has fostered, and at times jeopardised, the formation of queer practices, subcultures, and forms of resistance. It asks what our decades-long quest to catalogue and understand nightlife spaces through photography and film can tell us about our various relationships with them, and how photography intersects with pleasure, politics, and protest.

Can’t make it? Order a copy here.

Image Credit: Dancer, Club Ecstacy, San Francisco, CA, 1991 © Phyllis Christopher.