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Jenny Chamarette

@jennychambles.bsky.social
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Writer, curator, mentor, coach, artist. Q IS FOR GARDEN out July 2026. Imprint co-director of MAI Press, Punctum. Repped @portyliterary. Queer gardener. I do queer feminist film/art things and fight for disability justice.

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Caught by the River @caughtbytheriver.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
In our latest author Q&A, @jennychambles.bsky.social speaks to Tallulah Brennan about feeling through tendrils of queerness, what compost can teach us about breaking down, & daffodils as symbols of the violent and the sublime. Read an extract: www.caughtbytheriver.net/2026/08/smal...
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Manchester University Press @manchesterup.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Tickets for this year's @coastisqueerfest.bsky.social are on sale now! Author @jennychambles.bsky.social will be appearing on this brilliant panel on Saturday 17th October: coastisqueer.com/event/queer-... #booksky
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Queer Nature, Radical Gardens
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Jenny Chamarette @jennychambles.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
And what a gorgeous review it is. Thank you @katebradbury.bsky.social 💚🩷
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Manchester University Press @manchesterup.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Coming up next week, join author @jennychambles.bsky.social in conversation with fellow author Diarmuid Hester at @dauntbooks.bsky.social Notting Hill for a discussion of queerness and gardening, to celebrate Jenny's new book Q is for Garden. Tickets here: dauntbooks.co.uk/shop/events/... #booksky
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Jenny Chamarette in conversation with Diarmuid Hester
Buy tickets for the event with Jenny Chamarette in conversation with Diarmuid Hester at Daunt Books Notting Hill from Daunt Books today.
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Jenny Chamarette @jennychambles.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
I am EXCITED and also a wee bit nervous to be speaking at Lighthouse Books in their garden tomorrow evening! We will be talking radical roots, tree feelings, the contradictions of looking (especially at gender) and why conventional resilience needs to get f*cked
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Jenny Chamarette @jennychambles.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Get yourself an agent like Caro Clarke. You will never look back
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Jenny Chamarette @jennychambles.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
It’s a beautiful thing to have your work out in the world - and being read by a friend is strangely intimate and tender. Thank you for being part of the cultivation of these words, Jona xxx
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Nat Guest @unfortunatalie.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
And here is the radiant @jennychambles.bsky.social with their beautiful new book Q is for Garden - on binaries and boundaries, earthing & unearthing, the porous & the unquantifiable.
Stack of beautiful teal books featuring a large pink Q, behind which a pleased as punch author with short pink hair and thick pink glasses. They hold their hands to their face in pleased overwhelm.
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Nat Guest @unfortunatalie.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
My pal @jennychambles.bsky.social's beautiful new book is released today and I feel some of you will be interested in it!
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Caught by the River @caughtbytheriver.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
'Queer ecology in a garden is about the untamed and unpruned.' Read an extract from @jennychambles.bsky.social’s ‘Q is for Garden’ (@manchesterup.bsky.social) — our July Book of the Month, which explores how queerness & nature entwine 🌿 www.caughtbytheriver.net/2026/07/jenn...
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Lighthouse - Edinburgh's Radical Bookshop @lighthousebks.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
On Wednesday 15th July at 7pm, the queer theme continues with @jennychambles.bsky.social on Q is for Garden and tending the histories of queer cultivation! lighthousebookshop.com/events/q-is-...
A green and pink banner that says "an evening in the bookshop garden with Jenny Chamarette, Wednesday 15th July, 7pm" with the Lighthouse logo on the top right in white. To the left is a photo of Q is for Garden and an image of Jenny Chamarette.
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So Mayer @suchmayer.northsky.social · 27/06/2026
Join @kirkdalebooks.bsky.social Queer Nature Extravaganza at Grow Mayow to celebrate the launch of the v excellent Q IS FOR GARDEN by the v excellent @jennychambles.bsky.social 🌱🌺 There's an afternoon & evening of activities planning, so come & be queer in the garden with us! Sat 11 July, 4-9 pm
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Q is for Garden Queer Nature Extravaganza
Get ready to dive into a colourful celebration of queer nature, readings, books, music and garden magic all in one fabulous evening
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Manchester University Press @manchesterup.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
🌿 Q is for Garden is going on tour! A celebration of the communities rooted in green spaces, join author @jennychambles.bsky.social for conversations about queer cultivation with fellow garden lovers and book readers. Head to our Events page (link in bio) to book. #booksky #pridemonth
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Jenny Chamarette @jennychambles.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
@kirkdalebooks.bsky.social looking at you 👀
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Manchester University Press @manchesterup.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
To celebrate #IndieBookshopWeek we asked some of our trade authors to share their favourite indie bookshops, discover their picks on our Blog here: manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/blog/2026/06... @gsoh31.bsky.social @sarahjlonsdale.bsky.social @jennychambles.bsky.social @sacha_coward #booksky
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Jenny Chamarette @jennychambles.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Kirkdale Bookshop invites you to the launch of my book Q is for Garden at Grow Mayow Community Garden on Saturday 11 July! Eventbrite booking link is here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/q-is-for-g.... Early bird and pay what you can tickets available until June. It’ll be a blast - come join us 🌱💚🌱
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Q is for Garden Queer Nature Extravaganza
Get ready to dive into a colourful celebration of queer nature, readings, books, music and garden magic all in one fabulous evening
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Jenny Chamarette @jennychambles.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
I see I’m in the very fine company of @sachacoward.bsky.social for MUP’s pride month discount on queer-themed books. If you’re sitting on the fence about buying your copy of Q IS FOR GARDEN, now’s your moment 💚🌱
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Jenny Chamarette @jennychambles.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
The best review from the best of reviewers. What joy it is to feel your words have met someone.
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Manchester University Press @manchesterup.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Publishing in July, 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. Pre-order your copy today! @jennychambles.bsky.social #booksky #gardening #LGBTQIA
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Manchester University Press @manchesterup.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
With all eyes on #RHSChelsea Flower Show this week, we asked author @jennychambles.bsky.social to make a short film of their garden - the place at the centre of their forthcoming book, Q is for Garden, which is out in July. Watch it on Instagram here: www.instagram.com/p/DYjjN4kuTOt/ #booksky
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jenny.chamarette on Instagram: "With all eyes on Chelsea Flower Show this week, I wrapped up in my red dressing gown to make an early morning film of my garden - t…"
With all eyes on Chelsea Flower Show this week, I wrapped up in my red dressing gown to make an early morning film of my garden - the place at the centre of my forthcoming book, Q is for Garden. In true cat fashion, Kalli chose to make herself the star of my amateur garden show, which also features several of the plants who appear in the book.I wrote Q from this garden, and my garden became the centre of what I learned about writing, plants, culture cultivation and sexuality. Gardening is a beautiful, radical act as @blacklodgepress point out. And all the interventions of more-than-human beings along the way are what helped this book to grow. ...#rhschelsea #qisforgarden #naturewriting #queergardener #catsofthegramView all comments
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Jenny Chamarette @jennychambles.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
It’s coming!!! Q is for Garden coming out on 7 July. More details below!
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Jenny Chamarette @jennychambles.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
Oh look it’s my book! On promotion! If you like queerness and gardens, give Q is for Garden a pre-order
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Jenny Chamarette @jennychambles.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
Thank you so much @nicolawriting.bsky.social - it was a joy to review The Book of Bogs!
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Caught by the River @caughtbytheriver.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
‘Consider it a spell, to encircle the wild peat of your heart.’ Brontës and Boggarts: @jennychambles.bsky.social sinks into @clareshawpoet.bsky.social and Anna Chilvers’ (eds), ‘The Book of Bogs’ (@littletollerbooks.bsky.social) www.caughtbytheriver.net/2026/01/the-...
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Jenny Chamarette @jennychambles.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
A bit of news from me: Q IS FOR GARDEN is out with MUP in July 2026! Please stay tuned for event updates…
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The Top 100 Greatest Films Of All Time @top100pod.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
💥NEW EPISODE!💥 This month Tim is joined by film academic @jennychambles.bsky.social to discuss Jean Vigo's L'Atalante (1934). Available wherever you get your podcasts.
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So Mayer @suchmayer.northsky.social · 04/05/2025
Currently reading Theory of Water. Looking forward to listening to this conversation, then re-reading, then re-listening. 🌊
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Jenny Chamarette @jennychambles.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
Lovelies, I’m not getting on with this app. It looks a wee bit too much like the formerly and deceased and I’ve lost my mojo for sharing, spouting, oo-er silliness and reframing good stuff. I can’t sort my algorithm and there’s… All This Going On Out Here. Want to help me get my mojo back?
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WuTangIsForTheChildren @wutangforchildren.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
💯🎯 #TransDayOfVisibility
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Frances Ryan @francesryan.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
“Every time you see a headline on “the cost of the benefits bill”, what you are really reading is “the cost of disabled people”.  My col. on Labour’s reported benefit cuts and the toxic narrative of the “moral” virtue of work. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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There is a shameful tradition of demonising disabled people. Why is Labour reigniting it? | Frances Ryan
Ministers run away from a wealth tax and then concoct a punitive benefits system. They have made that choice and it’s immoral, says Guardian columnist Frances Ryan
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DocHackenBOOOOOsh @dochackenbush.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Animalgesics. #art #pills #moles
Animalgesics. A paracetamole, ie: a mole with a body shaped like a two toned pill capsule. An Ibuprofhen, a pill with chicken features (beak, comb, wings etc) and co-coder moles - two moles typing away at identical laptops
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Jenny Chamarette @jennychambles.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Oh no it’s me that’s honoured to be a friend and accomplice of @clubdesfemmes.bsky.social
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Jenny Chamarette @jennychambles.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Assessing cool research publications while getting angry about university systems and fending off neighbourhood cats from the frogspawn in the pond. Sounds on-brand.
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Jenny Chamarette @jennychambles.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
I got an ellipsis problem so big the first f*cking academic essay I ever published was ABOUT ellipsis.
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So Mayer @suchmayer.northsky.social · 24/02/2025
Was once told by an editor to "tether the meta-effusion" due to a particularly winding sentence that had – ( ) & ; referring to a text, its paratexts, citations of its paratexts & one of its own influences, but also didn't actually close its opening clause, so…
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Ed Mullen @edmullen.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
From @adriennemareebrown.bsky.social from her July 2024 appearance on On Being: "So mushrooms, I feel like they’re our great detoxer. They’re the ones who understand that nothing needs to be wasted; that everything can be used in some way..." onbeing.org/programs/adr...
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adrienne maree brown — On Radical Imagination and Moving Towards Life
The social creative and visionary of emergence. Fractals. Pleasure activism. How we change — and change together.
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dan sinker @dansinker.com · 24/02/2025
In light of everything happening, I wrote about how the KKK in the 1920s felt unstoppable, about the people that fought against them anyway, and about how fascism always fails. dansinker.com/posts/202…
an archival black and white photograph of the KKK marching in Washington DC with the capitol behind them
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Dr. Divya (🔔 logged out) @divyampersaud.com · 24/02/2025
“Gaza’s youth are unstoppable in their drive to learn & work. They push forward, even when everything seems against them…You can help turn their determination into real opportunities & lasting change.” ‼️ Help sustain this remote working space in Gaza!
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🇵🇸 Gaza Needs Your Support: Help Build a Lifeline for Students and Remote Workers!
In Gaza, war has destroyed homes, blocked roads, and left countless people without work. Yet, amidst the rubble, hope remains. Students and remote workers face daily struggles—power outages, broken...
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So Mayer @suchmayer.northsky.social · 11/02/2025
There is a word for this, and it is appeasement.
Guardian news story webpage featuring a photograph of a smiling white man with expensive hair and clothes. The headline reads:
Respect Trump's mandate and handle disputes
'directly and privately', says
Mandelson. The sub head reads:
UK ambassador to Washington says Britain has a strong relationship with US and can influence president.
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Jenny Chamarette @jennychambles.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
Statistical misogyny - or the statistical evidence of misogyny - feels at once vindicating and extremely tiring. Because the evidence was always there. Always. I’m so tired of equalities statistics. They show the same thing over and over. And the same abusive senior figures keep on abusin’
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Jenny Chamarette @jennychambles.bsky.social · 28/12/2024
Orbital folks. I’m ready for the chat. Who wants to do some #booktalk?
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hannah @hannahkateboast.bsky.social · 28/12/2024
Cool project! Great to click on this and learn about Kate Mackintosh, who designed Dawson's Heights, one of my favourite features of the skyline in my old neighbourhood.
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Rosalind Ahmed @21rosa.bsky.social · 27/12/2024
I was beguiled by this sinuous piece in which @jennychambles.bsky.social "asks questions I don’t have words for" #BlueSpaces 💙 www.caughtbytheriver.net/2024/12/shad...
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Shadows & Reflections: Jenny Chamarette | Caught by the River | Caught by the River
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Jenny Chamarette @jennychambles.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
An end of year piece from the height of summer while I was on a residency in North Virginia, published by the gorgeous @caughtbytheriver.bsky.social
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Caught by the River @caughtbytheriver.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
'Questions asked by the water don’t always return the same day, or week, or month. Back by the indigo-green waters, questions float to meet hollow circles among the wind-blown ribbons.' @jennychambles.bsky.social on a 2024 of questions, answers and bodies of water buff.ly/41CWO3X
Pond with algal bloom, surrounded by trees, grasses and other greenery. The plants and a cloudy sky are reflected in the water's surface. There is a white building with a pitched roof in the far distance.
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sarojini @sarojini.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
Ugh this is so sad. Maybe not her most powerful, but to me, her most moving poem is this one
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Tom Snarsky @tomsnarsky.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
RIP Nikki Giovanni 💜 my favorite poem of hers, one I shared with my students every year
::A Journey

It’s a journey . . . that I propose . . . I am not the guide . . . nor technical assistant . . . I will be your fellow passenger . . .

Though the rail has been ridden . . . winter clouds cover . . . autumn’s exuberant quilt . . . we must provide our own guideposts . . .

I have heard . . . from previous visitors . . . the road washes out sometimes . . . and passengers are compelled . . . to continue groping . . . or turn back . . . I am not afraid . . .

I am not afraid . . . of rough spots . . . or lonely times... I don’t fear . . . the success of this endeavor . . . I am Ra . . . in a space . . . not to be discovered . . . but invented . . .

I promise you nothing . . . I accept your promise . . . of the same we are simply riding . . . a wave . . . that may carry . . . or crash . . .

It’s a journey . . . and I want . . . to go . . .
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Heart-Pages @heart-pages.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
RIP Nikki Giovanni who my mom read to me as a child. I published a poem for her once upon a time. What a legacy and inspiration 👑🙏
Except of my poem "you me mommy, for Nikki Giovanni". Some words shown are "mommy said God knew what he was doing...because she was angry enough for the world already"
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So Mayer @suchmayer.northsky.social · 07/12/2024
Now with added @telltales.bsky.social @chaptersbookstore.bsky.social @argonautbooks.bsky.social & @poetrybookshop.bsky.social 🥳🥳🥳 We're almost at 60 UK & Irish indie bookstores, keep following, keep buying books & keep em coming #BookSky go.bsky.app/K7P6mVw
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Jason Scott @textfiles.com · 01/12/2024
MIT has a set of books labelled "Open Access" but it's a little clunky to find them on the MIT Press site, and so I've gone ahead and mirrored 400+ of them here: archive.org/details/mit_...
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