The general trend towards hatred and ignorance shows us why we must arm ourselves – building queer communities, reclaiming queer spaces, and learning from our beautiful queer histories.
‘We Bangladeshi Queer People Exist’
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Review: From Sylhet to Spitalfields: Bengali Squatters in 1970s East London
Author: Shabna BegumFrom Sylhet to Spitalfields: Bengali Squatters in 1970s East LondonLawrence WishartISBN: 9781913546748 This book is based around the oral history project that the author carried out about the Bengali squatting movement that happened in the 1970s around Spitalfields/Whitechapel. Along with the recent research by Christine Wall into women’s squats around London Fields (and
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