Seeing double? This here podcast just so happens to share its name with a brilliant LGBTQIA+ bookshop, located in the heart of one of the queer places to be in the UK: Manchester. I met Matthew, the owner, and Jasper, the beagle, in the shop for a chat about their origin story, their book clubs and their exciting next move… Don’t delay, listen (and visit) today!

References
https://www.queerlit.co.uk/
Social Refuge
Feel Good Club
The Cockatoo Club
Daniel Harding’s Gay Man Talking
Matt Cain
Henry Fry
Julia Armfield
Meg-John Barker’s Rewriting the Rules and How to Understand Your Sexuality
https://www.rewriting-the-rules.com/
“Non-binary Life” with Meg-John Barker
https://www.spreaker.com/episode/48558860
Alice Oseman
Sheena Patel’s I’m A Fan
Ocean Vuong’s On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous

Questions you may want to think about:

1. If you could create any queer space, what would it look like?
2. How do you find queer books?
3. Matthew talks about many LGBTQIA+ books not being identifiable as such right away. Why do you think that is?
4. Which queer book would you want to be in every school library?