by Rachel Dax | Apr 23, 2022 | Performers and Writers
Jane Hoy researches, writes and performs in Queer Tales from Wales, travelling theatre. Jane was also a founder member of Queer Playback Theatre Company. She is also trained in forum theatre and is a keen dancer on the LGBT latin and ballroom scene. Jane worked for...
by Rachel Dax | Apr 23, 2022 | Performers and Writers
Norena Shopland is an author/historian specialising in the history of sexual orientation and gender identity. Her book Forbidden Lives: LGBT stories from Wales (Seren Books, 2017) is the first completely historical work on Welsh LGBTQ+ history. Queering...
by Rachel Dax | Apr 23, 2022 | Performers and Writers
Jane Traies is a writer, researcher and story teller, and is the author of The Lives of Older Lesbians: Sexuality, Identity and the Life Course (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016). She continues to collect the memories of women born before 1950 who identify as...
by Rachel Dax | Apr 23, 2022 | Performers and Writers
Jacky Bratton is Professor Emerita, Royal Holloway, University of London. She is a cultural historian specialising in the long nineteenth century, writing about everything the Georgians and Victorians did from street poetry to children’s books to circuses. Her books...
by Rachel Dax | Apr 23, 2022 | Performers and Writers
Jay Taverner It’s been an open secret in the lesbian community for years that historical novelist Jay Taverner is not one but two people: Jacky Bratton and Jane Traies, writing together. (Their fifty-year friendship is also a little piece of lesbian history.) They...
