Jenny Chamarette

Author

Queerphoria: An Own Voices anthology celebrating queer joy (VERVE Voices Book 1)

This Allotment: Stories of growing, eating and nurturing

Jenny Chamarette

Jenny Chamarette is a writer, curator and cultural critic whose work blends lived experience and cultural history. Writing across film, art and the living world, they explore queer ecologies, disability, care and the politics of attention, combining memoir with criticism to ask how lives - human and more-than-human - are shaped, tended and repaired. You can sign up to get updates about their writing here.

Books

Q is for Garden

Tending the histories of queer cultivation

A bold, tender exploration of how queerness and nature entwine - and what happens when we step beyond the binaries that fence us in.

There is a Q in garden, but you can't always see it.

When Jenny Chamarette faced a devastating health crisis, they found themselves unmoored from the rules of gender, sexuality and productivity. In a small South...

Queerphoria: An Own Voices anthology celebrating queer joy (VERVE Voices Book 1)

The inaugural collection in the new VERVE Voices series, Queerphoria is a joyful and defiant queer-authored anthology proudly supporting Switchboard, the national LGBTQIA+ support line.

Four housemates welcome the reader into their home for a birthday party. An elderly widow visits her first queer bar, beneath the flat she shared with her...

This Allotment: Stories of growing, eating and nurturing

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‘A celebration of community, belonging, intimacy, healing, reclamation, connection, growth, grief, birth, and joy’ Victoria Bennett, author of All My Wild Mothers

'Dip into these pages as an allotment sceptic and you may well find your mind is changed. If you have a plot, you’ll be reminded of why all the hard work is worthwhile.’ The Garden

This...

Praise

‘A generous and profoundly creative study of how all forms of life can learn to flourish in hostile climates.’

– Octavia Bright, author of This Ragged Grace

‘Enlarges our understanding of what tending the soil opens up for selves and societies, both.’

– Tanya Shadrick, author of The Cure for Sleep

‘A whirlwind memoir and cultural history, demonstrating that nature is indifferent to the categories we inherit.’

– Jack Wallington, author of Wild About Weeds

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Events

11

July

Upcoming Event

Q IS FOR GARDEN LAUNCH // QUEER NATURE EXTRAVAGANZA

Kirkdale Books and Grow Mayow Community Garden proudly present:

Q is for Garden Queer Nature Extravaganza!

A celebration of queer nature, community and the launch of Q is for Garden, a new book tending the histories of queer cultivation by Jenny Chamarette.

* WITH SPECIAL GUESTS SO MAYER, MIRA MATTAR, ELLA PHILLIPS & DARRYL GADZEKPO AKA ELECTRIC FUTURE FOODS, AND DECLAN WIFFEN*

Join us for joyful evening of queer nature, storytelling, gardening, creativity, performance and community in the...