“The Common Press” with Alfonzo Sieveking

If you haven’t been to the Common Press yet, you’re missing out! But not to worry, Alfonzo and I will transport you there. The Common Press is an intersectional bookshop and event space at the end of Brick Lane and I wish I could live there because the curation of events and books is amazing and the chai latte is fabulous and I found all of my favourite new reads there.

References:
Chris Mounsey
Variabilities
Aisha Shaibu-Lenoir
Above the Stag
Richmix
Sara Ahmed
UK Black Pride
Bi Pride
Freddie Ruddock
BLM
Stephen Murray and Will Roscoe’s Boy-Wives and Female Husbands: Studies in African Homosexualities
Brontez Purnell’s 100 Boyfriends, Since I Laid My Burden Down, Johnny Would You Love Me If My Dick Were Bigger Cipher Press

Questions you may want to reflect on after listening:

1. What might make a queer space different from an intersectional space? How could they be similar?
2. How much time do you get to spend in intersectional spaces?
3. What do you need in a space to feel welcome?
4. If you could open a radical bookshop tomorrow, what would you call it?