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Q is for Garden: Tending the histories of queer cultivation

By (author) Jenny Chamarette

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A bold, tender exploration of how queerness and nature entwine â€“ and what happens when we step beyond the binaries that fence us in. There is a Q in garden, but you canâ€™t always see it. When Jenny Chamarette faced a devastating health crisis, they found themselves unmoored from the rules of gender, sexuality and productivity. In a small South London garden, Jenny began to imagine another way of living: porous, unruly, rooted in the lessons of soil and plant life. Gardens, like identities, are usually bounded â€“ but what if those limits can be re-drawn? Blending memoir and cultural criticism, this book asks whether the categories we inherit â€“ colonial, patriarchal, conventions of sexuality and gender â€“ still serve us, or whether they confine us. From illness and recovery to queer love and ecological wonder, Q is for Garden invites readers to reimagine how we inhabit land, culture and each other. An eloquent work of nature writing and queer thought, Q is for Garden digs into the rich history of queer gardeners, botanists, artists and agriculturalists. It offers a hopeful vision of belonging, if we are curious enough to unearth it. -- .