The Log Books

Tash interviews Simon Olmetti who is the editor of WEED magazine, about art and writing that is entangled with nature, and vice versa.

Also mentioned this episode:
Lust: Pleasure, Performance, Power by Erika Lust

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The Log Books is hosted and produced by Tash Walker and Adam Zmith
The assistant producer is Mia Campbell
Music from Soundstripe
Original artwork by Natalie Doto
Thanks to the dreamboats at Acast
For the story of the helpline Switchboard and untold stories from Britain's LGBTQ+ history: listen to Seasons 1-3, co-produced with Shivani Dave.
For interviews from the research for our book, published by Faber & Faber: listen to Season 4.
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Adam meets Andrew Copson, chief executive of Humanists UK, to hear about the intertwined history of humanism and the march for LGBTQ+ rights. With characters like AE Housman, Edward Carpenter and Maureen Duffy, it made for a rich and energising chat!

Check out more from Andrew on the Unholy Histories podcast.

Also mentioned this episode:
Happy Baby by J J Johnson

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Aunt Nell: Newsletter | Instagram | YouTube | website
The Log Books is hosted and produced by Tash Walker and Adam Zmith
The assistant producer is Mia Campbell
Music from Soundstripe
Original artwork by Natalie Doto
Thanks to the dreamboats at Acast
For the story of the helpline Switchboard and untold stories from Britain's LGBTQ+ history: listen to Seasons 1-3, co-produced with Shivani Dave.
For interviews from the research for our book, published by Faber & Faber: listen to Season 4.
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Jaye Hudson, trans superstar and founder of TGirlsonFilm, joins us to launch the new edition of Tranny Central, a zine seeking to give flowers to the trans members of the Gay Liberation Front in 1970s London.

Also mentioned in this episode:
Boy George - A Bit Fruity with Matt Bernstein (with Caroline Kwan and Kat Tenbarge)
Sean MacKenzie’s exhibition The Night Shift at the Pale Horse Gallery in London

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Aunt Nell: Newsletter | Instagram | YouTube | website

The Log Books is hosted and produced by Tash Walker and Adam Zmith
The assistant producer is Mia Campbell
Music from Soundstripe
Original artwork by Natalie Doto
Thanks to the dreamboats at Acast

For the story of the helpline Switchboard and untold stories from Britain's LGBTQ+ history: listen to Seasons 1-3, co-produced with Shivani Dave.
For interviews from the research for our book, published by Faber & Faber: listen to Season 4.
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We’re joined in this episode by Lou, a potty-mouthed truth teller, compassionate friend, loving mother, proud feminist and iconic lesbian. Lou told us about her life in east London and what it meant to take a community approach to processing grief when it struck her friendship circle.

Also mentioned in this episode:
Metric anxiety is fueling a dangerous decline in quality queer journalism, by Amelia Hansford on QueerAF

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Aunt Nell: Newsletter | Instagram | YouTube | website

The Log Books is hosted and produced by Tash Walker and Adam Zmith
The assistant producer is Mia Campbell
Music from Soundstripe
Original artwork by Natalie Doto
Thanks to the dreamboats at Acast

For the story of the helpline Switchboard and untold stories from Britain's LGBTQ+ history: listen to Seasons 1-3, co-produced with Shivani Dave.
For interviews from the research for our book, published by Faber & Faber: listen to Season 4.
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Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/thelogbooks.
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Tash entertains Adam with ghost rivers - natural waterways that get diverted or covered by cities. It’s a subject that has fed into Tash’s recent poetry and other writing, linking the natural world with queer experience and city life.

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Aunt Nell: Newsletter | Instagram | YouTube | website

The Log Books is hosted and produced by Tash Walker and Adam Zmith
The assistant producer is Mia Campbell
Music from Soundstripe
Original artwork by Natalie Doto
Thanks to the dreamboats at Acast

For the story of the helpline Switchboard and untold stories from Britain's LGBTQ+ history: listen to Seasons 1-3, co-produced with Shivani Dave.
For interviews from the research for our book, published by Faber & Faber: listen to Season 4.
KI7FHCTLCUOCNJZ9

Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/thelogbooks.
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.