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Unicorn: The Memoir of a Muslim Drag Queen

Artist/Author: Amrou Al-Kadhi | Reference: P4058 | ISBN: 978-0008306069 | Type: Publication

From a god-fearing Muslim boy enraptured with their mother, to a vocal, queer drag queen estranged from their family, this is a heart-breaking and hilarious memoir about the author’s fight to be true to themself.

Part of the Library of Performing Rights (P3041).

PLAYING UP: A Live Art Game for Kids and Adults (second edition)

Artist/Author: Sibylle Peters | Reference: P3999 | ISBN: 978-0-9935611-0-8 | Type: Publication

Second edition of the artwork exploring the potential of Live Art to bridge generations.

A Transpective: how things used to be now

Artist/Author: Chana Dubinski | Reference: P3993 | Type: Publication

Publication documenting the 18 months in which Ann Bean left London and settled in Newark-on-Trent, creating a different, unfamiliar life structure.

Between the Body and the Flesh: Performing Sadomasochism

Artist/Author: Lynda Hart | Reference: P3721 | ISBN: 978-0231084031 | Type: Publication

Focusing on a variety of representations, the book stimulates discussions of s/m through the exploration of censorship in the arts, the fetishization of sexual paraphernalia, recombinations of class, race and sexuality, and the politics of psychoanalysis.

Part of the Library of Performing Rights (P3041).

Hachiko: The True Story of a Loyal Dog

Artist/Author: Pamela S Turne | Reference: P3705 | ISBN: 978-0547237558 | Type: Publication

This true story of a dog that faithfully waited for his owner at a Tokyo train station.

Heart of a Dog

Artist/Author: Laurie Anderson | Reference: D2304 | Type: DVD

A cinematic journey through love, death and language. 

75 minutes.

Man Enough to be a Woman: The Autobiography of Jayne County

Artist/Author: Jayne County | Reference: P3666 | ISBN: 978-1852423384 | Type: Publication

Wild, hilarious and shameless account of Jayne’s life from her cissy-boy childhood in Georgia to her 90s renaissance, as a new wave of superstars claim her as their inspiration.

Part of the Library of Performing Rights (P3041)

The Naked Civil Servant

Artist/Author: Quentin Crisp | Reference: P3567 | ISBN: 978-0006540441 | Type: Publication

In this autobiography, Crisp describes his unhappy childhood and the stresses of adolescence that led him to London. There in bedsits and cafes he found a world of brutality and comedy, of shortlived jobs and precarious relationships.

What the **** is Normal?!

Artist/Author: Francesca Martinez | Reference: P3569 | ISBN: 978-0753555354 | Type: Publication

If you grow up in a world where wrinkles are practically illegal, going bald is cause for a mental breakdown, and women over size zero are encouraged to shoot themselves (immediately), what the hell do you do if you’re, gasp … disabled? 

Focus on Destruction

Artist/Author: Mary Paterson | Reference: A0772 | Type: Article

A response to KAPUTT: The Academy of Destruction at Tate Modern, October 2017.

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