Throughout this year, Queer Intersections Oxford has been lucky enough to host a line-up of amazing speakers at our Research Lunches. We’ve had a great time, and we hope you’ve enjoyed QIO’s events as much as we have!
Together we’ve explored how queerness relates to archives, environments, bodies, and activisms. Whether these discussions were about how genderqueer students are resisting school uniform policies, how sapphic lust was represented in 19th century French literature, or even how the erased images in medieval manuscripts reveal truly queer possibilities, we felt inspired by our postgraduate peers.
Our insightful speakers helped us make connections and think about these topics in new ways, from new perspectives. To piece together queer sources and histories differently. And we thought—why not do this literally?
That’s why QIO wrapped up the year with a collage event at the Jolly Farmers, Oxford’s favourite queer pub. We printed LGBTQ+ texts and images from around the world and combined them with cuttings from second-hand books so we could create queer art pieces reflecting on our identities, experiences, and research.
Some of us were seasoned collage-makers, while others had never even held a craft knife. Yet everyone had a unique vision, and we were all thrilled with the results.
Just see for yourself! Check out the gallery above.
With pride for Pride Month,
The QIO Team
