Meg-John Barker: In Conversation
Queer Research Network Manchester is very excited to be in conversation with Meg-John Barker. We’ll be talking about their latest book Sexuality: A Graphic Guide, and using zines and comics to share research with different audiences.
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When: Thursday 17th June 2021
Time: 5-6:30 GMT
Where: Zoom (invites to be sent out on the day)
Time: 5-6:30 GMT
Where: Zoom (invites to be sent out on the day)
To RSVP please email: queerresearchnetwork@gmail.com
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‘From the dream team creators of Queer: A Graphic History and Gender: A Graphic Guide, Sex can seem like a house of horrors – full of monsters and potential pitfalls. We often live with fear, shame and frustration when it comes to our own sexuality, and with judgement when it comes to others’. Sex advice manuals, debates over sex work and stories of sexual ‘dysfunction’ add to our anxiety.
With compassion, humour, erudition and a touch of the erotic, Meg-John Barker and Jules Scheele shine a light through the darkness and unmask the monsters in this illustrated guide. From sexual identities to having sex, to desire, consent and relationships, we’ll explore the invention of sex as we know it and imagine sex as it could be. Along the way, we’ll move past thinking of sex as meaning just one thing, defined by the genders of those doing it, instead making space for lots of different types of attraction, desire, relationship and act.’
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Meg-John Barker is the author of a number of popular books on sex, gender, and relationships, including graphic guides to Queer, Gender, and Sexuality, How To Understand Your Gender, Life Isn’t Binary, Enjoy Sex (How, When, and IF You Want To), Rewriting the Rules, and Hell Yeah Self Care. They have also written a number of books for scholars and counsellors on these topics, drawing on their own years of academic work and therapeutic practice.