Join Yishi at Queer History Club for a talk about the history of queer homes in queer books - then get crafty to make your own home even queerer with a fridge magnet or coaster that explores what queer domesticity means to you. Materials provided.

How queer is home? Is the domestic domain a space for nuclear families, convention and confinement, or is there room for queer resistance? And how has that changed over time? Historian and literary scholar Yishi Pan's research uncovers how 20th-century queer novels like Patricia Highsmith's The Price of Salt (aka Carol) and Christopher Isherwood's A Single Man reimagine the home as a queerer space than their contemporary society expected.

About the facilitator: Yishi Pan is a PhD candidate in English literature at the University of Leeds. Before moving to Leeds, she lived and earned her master’s degree in Edinburgh. Her research focuses on queer homes in U.S. fiction (1936-1964), exploring domestic spaces as sites that challenge compulsory heterosexuality and nuclear family norms.