As part of Queer History Club we are thrilled to welcome Adam Zmith to talk about his book, Solemates with historian Kit Heyam.

Solemates is a history of our fetish for feet: it's brainy, sexy, queer, kinky, and it will make you think again about why you desire what you desire. Toe-botherers share an ancestry stretching back to Victorian ladies, medieval poetry, and even the Bible. Their stories feature desire, passion, deviance, science and stigma. It is told here for the first time, decentred from shame and disgust, coloured with testimony from modern-day fetishists—and climaxing in an argument for pleasure.

Adam Zmith is a writer and podcast producer whose work explores the beats of our bodies, in the past, present and future. He is the author of Solemates: A History of Our Fetish for Feet and Deep Sniff: A History of Poppers and Queer Futures, which won the Polari First Book Prize 2022.  In podcasts, he co-produced The Log Books podcast, wrote and produced the BBC podcast series The Film We Can’t See, hosts the Free Sex podcast, and is co-director of the production company Aunt Nell.

Kit Heyam is a Leeds-based heritage practitioner, trans awareness trainer, academic and author of Before We Were Trans.

Adam and Kit will be in conversation plus Adam will also sign copies of his books which will be available to purchase at the event.