🌈 Queer Story Space 📅 Sat May 16th ⏰ 11am–1pm 📍 The Lab, Aviva Studios, Manchester
If you’re heading to The Age of Consent on May 17th, this is the perfect companion event—offering a more personal, conversational way to connect with our collective queer past.
Join us for an intimate, facilitated gathering to meet and share stories with other LGBTQIA+ people—across generations, across lived experiences.
Writers and podcast producers @adam.zmith and @tashwalker85 of Aunt Nell will guide the conversation using fascinating archival materials from their work, including lesbian newsletters, audio interviews about queer nightlife, and gay liberation campaign pamphlets. Together, we’ll explore our shared histories and spark meaningful dialogue.
💬 A welcoming space to listen, reflect, and connect 📩LINK IN BIO
#QueerStories #LGBTQIA #ManchesterEvents #QueerHistory #Community
SHARE YOUR STORY 🩺🌈
We want to hear from LGBTQI+ doctors and dentists — especially if you have memories of training or practising anytime from the 1960s–2000s.
Aunt Nell is working with GLADD, with support from the National Lottery Heritage Fund, on a powerful project exploring how LGBTQI+ professionals have shaped their fields from within. Together, we’re collecting stories and creating a documentary podcast series to bring these experiences to life.
💬 YOUR STORY MATTERS
Your experiences could be recorded as part of this project, preserved in GLADD’s archive at the Bishopsgate Institute, and featured in the podcast (we’ll explain everything and guide you through the process).
✨ Interested?
👉 Fill out the form via the link in our bio and we’ll be in touch to see if it’s right for you.
📩 Have questions? Get in touch — we’d love to hear from you.
#ShareYourStory #LGBTQHistory #LGBTQProfessionals #OralHistory #HeritageProject
💥The Stories of Our Lives 💥
We’re relaunching your favourite podcast!
We’re @tashwalker85 and @adam.zmith , and EVERY WEEK we get together to talk about history, politics, art and LGBTQ+ life.
From us ageing millennials nattering on, to interviews with exciting people doing amazing things, The Log Books contain… the stories of our lives.
Let us know what you think of the new format, and what you think we should feature.
-Adam + Tash
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The Log Books is hosted and produced by Tash Walker and Adam Zmith
The assistant producer is @mmiiaax
Music from Soundstripe
Original artwork by Natalie Doto
Thanks to the dreamboats at @acast
#TheLogBooks #QueerHistory #LGBTQBooks #lgbtq
Lab rats - 005 🐀
Tash has been reading some intriguing studies about the psychology of lab rats — and has discovered something about themself in the process. So let’s talk about it! Join us while we gnaw on the topics of cages (real and imagined), being queer, and the power of nature.
-Adam + Tash
Discussed in this episode:
The Well Gardened Mind by @suestuartsmith
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The Log Books is hosted and produced by @tashwalker85 and @Adam.Zmith
The assistant producer is @mmiiaax
Music from Soundstripe
Original artwork by Natalie Doto
Thanks to the dreamboats at @acast
#TheLogBooks #QueerHistory #LGBTQBooks #lgbtq
Latest episode of The Log Books ✨ Tash in conversation with Shoun from Inherent Vice - listen now!
We make no secret that we’re obsessed with queer history and heritage. So in this episode Tash met Shoun Obana who’s created a zine called Inherent Vice, “for heritage professionals and enthusiasts alike”.
We’ve also got a poem by Tash, Dear Section 28.
-Adam + Tash
Discussed in this episode:
Zine: Inherent Vice
Radio poem: Dear Section 28, originally created for @shortcutspodcast ,, series 33, a @fallingtreeproductions for BBC Radio 4
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The Log Books is hosted and produced by @tashwalker85 and @Adam.Zmith
The assistant producer is @mmiiaax
Music from Soundstripe
Original artwork by Natalie Doto
Thanks to the dreamboats at @acast
#TheLogBooks #QueerHistory #LGBTQBooks #lgbtq
📚🎙️ New episode of The Log Books is out now!
This week we’re diving into the brilliant new zine Inherent Vice — featuring this powerful poem Dear Section 28 by Tash.
Dear Section 28 was originally created for the wonderful @shortcutspodcast (Series 33), a @fallingtreeproductions production for BBC Radio 4
🎧 Listen now — link in bio.
Inherent Vice - 004
We make no secret that we’re obsessed with queer history and heritage. So in this episode Tash met Shoun Obana who’s created a zine called Inherent Vice, “for heritage professionals and enthusiasts alike”.
We’ve also got a poem by Tash, Dear Section 28.
-Adam + Tash
Discussed in this episode:
Zine: Inherent Vice
Radio poem: Dear Section 28, originally created for @shortcutspodcast ,, series 33, a @fallingtreeproductions for BBC Radio 4
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The Log Books is hosted and produced by @tashwalker85 and @Adam.Zmith
The assistant producer is @mmiiaax
Music from Soundstripe
Original artwork by Natalie Doto
Thanks to the dreamboats at @acast
#TheLogBooks #QueerHistory #LGBTQBooks #lgbtq
Listen back to the latest episode of The Log Books: An Army of Lovers Cannot Fail - 003
Sometimes you read a book and feel ‘this is a bit of me!’ That’s how we both felt reading An Army of Lovers Cannot Fail, so we wanted to talk about it. It’s a book about friendship, across generations, and the power of queer solidarity. So it also led us to two recent photography exhibitions too.
-Adam + Tash
Discussed in this episode:
Book: An Army of Lovers Cannot Fail by Hélène Giannecchini
Exhibition: We Others: Donna Gottschalk and Hélène Giannecchini @ The Photographers’ Gallery until June 7th
Exhibition: Catherine Opie: To Be Seen @ National Portrait Gallery, until May 31st
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The Log Books is hosted and produced by @tashwalker85 and @Adam.Zmith
The assistant producer is @mmiiaax
Music from Soundstripe
Original artwork by Natalie Doto
Thanks to the dreamboats at @acast
#TheLogBooks #QueerHistory #LGBTQBooks #lgbtq
An Army of Lovers Cannot Fail - 003
Sometimes you read a book and feel ‘this is a bit of me!’ That’s how we both felt reading An Army of Lovers Cannot Fail, so we wanted to talk about it. It’s a book about friendship, across generations, and the power of queer solidarity. So it also led us to two recent photography exhibitions too.
-Adam + Tash
Discussed in this episode:
Book: An Army of Lovers Cannot Fail by Hélène Giannecchini
Exhibition: We Others: Donna Gottschalk and Hélène Giannecchini @ The Photographers’ Gallery until June 7th
Exhibition: Catherine Opie: To Be Seen @ National Portrait Gallery, until May 31st
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The Log Books is hosted and produced by @tashwalker85 and @Adam.Zmith
The assistant producer is @mmiiaax
Music from Soundstripe
Original artwork by Natalie Doto
Thanks to the dreamboats at @acast
#TheLogBooks #QueerHistory #LGBTQBooks #lgbtq
Your Story, Your Words: Writing Workshop for LGBTQ+ People ✨
A gorgeous group of writers for our workshop at Deptford Literature Festival @londonwriterscentre hosted at @triangledeptford
Photos by Kashif Hague 📸
We dug into the queer archives of lesbian newsletters, gay mags, transgender support group leaflets and helpline logs. Had a mix of writing exercises, & space to listen to each others’ stories, and share some of our writing techniques.
More workshops to come! And if you’d like us to put in a writing workshop for you - get in touch 🖊️
VOLUNTEER WITH US 🩺🌈
We need YOU for an exciting new project exploring the experiences of LGBTQI+ doctors and dentists — and how they’ve shaped their professions from within.
Aunt Nell is teaming up with GLADD to dive into a powerful archive dating back to the 1970s, uncovering stories, memories, and voices that deserve to be heard. With support from the National Lottery Heritage Fund, we’re expanding this collection — and creating a brand new documentary podcast series along the way (think Sing it Pink… but with fewer songs and more stethoscopes!).
We’re looking for a small group of volunteers to join us. You’ll receive training in oral history, interviewing, sound recording, and ethics — then head out to capture the stories of some truly inspiring people.
✨ Want to be part of preserving this important history?
👉 Register your interest via the link in our bio.
#VolunteerOpportunity #LGBTQHistory #OralHistory #HeritageProject
THE LOG BOOKS visits Margate Queer Library and Archive 🌊
Oh, we do like to be beside the seaside…
Tash went for a swim (Adam went to the cafe), but we BOTH went to the @margatequeerlibrary , which is run by Sé Malaïka Nomyo. We also met Jen Scott, aka SHELLY GROTTO, who told us about her work on Margate and Thanet’s queer history.
Discussed in this episode:
Space: Margate Queer Library and Archive
Video: New Rumours on YouTube
-Adam + Tash
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The Log Books is hosted and produced by @tashwalker85 and @Adam.Zmith
Thanks to @margatequeerlibrary@sea_mali@shellygrotto & @margatepride
The assistant producer is @mmiiaax
Music from Soundstripe
Original artwork by Natalie Doto
Thanks to the dreamboats at @acast
#TheLogBooks #QueerHistory #LGBTQBooks #lgbtq
