RuPaul, Enid Blyton and beyond: UR Pride and Our Mythical Childhood present.... a 'Show and Tell' of classical and LGBT+ themed works for children and Young Adults

I'm not sure how often RuPaul and Enid Blyton have appeared side by side...

In one of my postings before Christmas, I mentioned that, owing to how well the show and tell sessions that ran during the autumn went, I was planning further ones. Each of the atumn events involved co-action between the University of Roehampton and the Our Mythical Childhood project, firstly for Black History Month and secondly for Roehampton's International Week.

I am now hosing another event - next week - as part of the programme of events for LGBT+ History Month.

Our event, the "Showcase" highlighted yellow in the poster above, starts at 1pm UK time on Tuesday 23 February.

Tomb Raider's Lara Croft -
  2013 reboot

Works to be showcased include Tomb Raider and RuPaul's Drag Race UK. Books on showinclude Dean Atta's, The Black Flamingo, Cynthia Voigt's, The Vandemark Mummy, O dziewczynce, która chciała być chłopcem - a 1980s book about a girl who wants to be a boy - and Enid Blyton's Tales of Ancient Greece.

We will be joined - via a specially-created video - by the author J.L. Pawley, who will talk about her Generation Icarus trilogy.

Those showing and telling include: Emily Booth (New England), Robin Diver (Birmingham), Liz Hale (New England), Sarah Hardstaff (Cambridge), Katarzyna Marciniak (Warsaw) and Nanci Santos.

All welcome - as are further suggestions of show and tell items! Email me (s.deacy@roehampton.ac.uk) for the Zoom link...