About
Join us for the return of Naked Queers Reading: HAGS.
NQR: HAGS is curated by Sophie Robinson and hosted by Nadia Buyse.
HAGS explores the tenderness of ageing femme bodies, the wisdom of crones, the humour the depressed and lonely, the dusty glamour of fading celebrity, the sexual power of the menopausal dandy, and the joy of being undesirable.
Featuring excerpts from Robinson’s new novel PRAIRIE OYSTER alongside work by Tennessee Williams, Marguerite Duras, Dodie Bellamy, Pamela Anderson, Lisa Robertson and Miranda July.
We hope you can cum.
IMPORTANT INFO:
Bar open from 18:30, Doors at 19:30, readings from 20:00- 22:00 (bar open till midnight!)
Please note no arrivals after 20:45.
General admission seating is limited and will be first-come-first-served, if you have access needs, please let us know in advance.
Sophie Robinson is a writer living in Norwich & London. Her debut novel Prairie Oyster was published by Fleet in February 2026. Her poetry collection Rabbit (Boiler House Press, 2018) was the Poetry Book Society Wild Card Choice. Her work has been published in Granta, The Guardian, Stylist, BOMB Magazine, The Believer, N+1, The Poetry Review and The White Review. She runs Devotion, a radical and inclusive online creative writing workshop series, and publishes regular essays on feeling at her Substack Feelings Almanac.
Nadia Buyse is an artist, theorist, cultural activist and musician. Her solo band, DUBAIS, is a perpetually changing transmedia post genre performance guising as a band. Nadia says:
I’ve always hated writing artist bios or album descriptions, not because of the process itself but because these tend to adopt a vernacular catered towards gatekeeping. What I mean by this is that you must make yourself identifiable or codable, not only by genre but also by values, aesthetics, race, gender, sexuality, politics, etc. It’s about placing you and your art somewhere or finding the place where you belong. This is language I personally feel very uncomfortable with… for what I suspect are normal reasons.
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See you there xxx
