Overview

Queer communities have long transformed parties into something powerful: spaces where care flourishes, injustice gets challenged, and new worlds are danced into being. But today DJs command huge fees while behind-the-scenes workers earn below minimum wage. Corporations profit from our culture while communities who created these spaces are displaced. As venues shut and workers burn out, it's clear that something has gone deeply wrong. Club Commons takes you inside hidden stories of resistance and reinvention. We meet the people reshaping nightlife from below: abolitionist security teams creating safety without police, sober raves doubling as mental health support, radical childcare at parties, venues becoming worker cooperatives, and free party crews reclaiming public space. Through their work, we see how party-throwing skills build movements, how refusing to play changes everything, and why protecting queer nightlife means transforming who owns it. As queer nightlife moves from the margins to the mainstream, what have we lost - and what can we still gain? Part cultural history, part manifesto, Club Commons explores the power of the dancefloor. A call to protect what we've built, and reimagine what's still possible.

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9781805780069

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""Anjali's one of the most exciting and insightful voices writing about dance music today, bringing fresh perspectives, intellectual rigour and emotive power to a conversation that's too often homogenous, superficial or cynically commercial. Club Commons promises to be an essential and overdue book: a chance to reexamine the queer history of club culture, celebrate and critique its present, and map out radical possibilities for its future."" Ed Gillett (author of Party Lines) ""When Anjali shines her perceptive light on dancefloor culture, everything is better illuminated. I can't wait to read this book. It's one we need."" Emma Warren (author of Dance Your Way Home/Up the Youth Club)

Author Information

Anjali Prashar-Savoie is a writer, DJ and party organiser exploring nightlife, labour, and collective care. Recognised by the HarperCollins Author Academy, her work bridges dancefloor knowledge and cultural analysis. She holds an MA in Art & Politics from Goldsmiths and a BA in Social Anthropology from SOAS. Anjali lives on a boat in London, where she continues to dance, write, play tunes, and throw parties with friends.

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