Gather together, share food and explore the library and the space.

Isadore (Book28), Bailey (PRIM Black), Aisha Shaibu-Lenoir (Common Press) and John Vincent a prominent UK public librarian, author, and social justice advocate will discuss what it means to preserve queer knowledge in a moment of censorship, political hostility and institutional neglect. The panel will consider libraries and archives as living infrastructures for memory, access, political education, community and resistance — and ask what becomes possible when communities build and care for their own spaces of knowledge.

Explore objects as a way of looking at queerness, as sites of knowledge and as tools for writing. What can an object tell us about gender, sexuality, memory and the ways we come to know ourselves? Participants are encouraged to bring an object that holds sentimental value connected to their gender or sexuality, though objects will also be available at the venue to work with. The workshop is open to all experience levels, from beginner to expert, with an optional opportunity to share writing and receive feedback.

Part of the wider spirit of the Queer Knowledge Commons: knowledge as something embodied, shared, remembered, felt and lived. This session brings that ethos directly into the body, through one of the oldest forms of queer and ancestral knowledge: what a plant can tell you when you sit with it and listen. We’ll gather for a heart-centred tea ritual using medicinal plants growing in and around London. Rather than being told what we’re drinking, we’ll discover together — tasting slowly, tracking sensation through the body and drawing on collective, felt knowledge to explore the plant and what it offers. This is gentle healing work. No prior herbal knowledge is needed and there is no “right” answer. It’s an invitation to return to the body as a place of knowing, and to reclaim a form of medicine traditionally passed hand to hand, heart to heart, body to body.

This zine-making workshop is about reclaiming our own narratives: uncovering, sharing and recording the knowledge that lives within queer and trans experience. Rooted in queer and decolonial approaches to archiving, it explores how zines can be created by and for the communities whose histories have so often been excluded, censored or distorted. No previous zine-making or art experience is needed.

Join Ben Camara (Orange Library, The Gambia), Filip Kijowski (Biblioteka Azyl, Poland) and Keval Harie (Gala Queer Archive, South Africa) for a conversation connecting  libraries and archives working in different political and cultural contexts. We’ll explore how each project responds to local pressures, censorship, institutional neglect and changing access to information, while creating spaces for knowledge, memory and community. The discussion will focus on participation and co-creation: how communities shape these spaces, what risks and challenges emerge, and what small but meaningful changes can develop over time. Together, we’ll consider how  libraries can become living infrastructures for memory, political education, collective responsibility and resistance.

Wind down, continue conversations, meet others and spend time together in the library.

Hang out and enjoy tea and cake in our library space for an afternoon dedicated to sharing stories, zines, publications and projects with other queer knowledge holders. You are invited to bring a favourite book or zine that reflects your own lived queer experience, with open slots to informally share your choice - facilitated by radical educator and artist, Jacob V. Joyce.

Our Transgenerations group returns for another series of six monthly workshops! Trans people need community now more than ever. Across these sessions, you’ll meet trans people across generations, build connections and learn from the differences in our experiences. Expect creative exercises, art, games and group discussions exploring trans time, community, culture, joy and rage, with plenty of space for playful connection. This is the first workshop of six. New and returning participants aged 18+ are warmly welcome. Workshops are held on 24 Oct · 21 Nov · 19 Dec · 23 Jan · 20 Feb · 20 Mar

Makan, a Palestinian led organisation dedicated to interconnected learning, will discuss how they use transformative education to bring about Palestinian liberation and strengthen the wider movement. The session will focus on their 'Educators for Liberation' programme and engage in a practice of collective reading and reflection on key texts by practitioners and thinkers of liberatory learning.

The sessions are informed by Islam and Sufi perspectives, and the role music, sound and listening play in many Sufi and Islamic traditions. You will be invited to sound, sing and listen in a way that embraces and honours your cultural and spiritual heritage and its wisdoms.