Overview

Queer in a Wee Place explores identity, inequality and belonging in animated conversations about how queerness moves through place – and how place, in turn, shapes queer lives. Building on interdisciplinary sexualities scholarship, activism, creative practices, as well as legislative and cultural critique, this open access book examines the past, present and future imaginings of queerness in Scotland, as a ‘wee place’. With cases covering law, policies, cultural institutions, education, and everyday life, this collection offers an in-depth analysis of Scottish queer experience, showing how ‘wee places’ reflect and inflect global dynamics – revealing tensions between national pride, visibility and exclusion. Scotland’s national claims about being world-leading in the advancement of LGBTQ+ rights often re-invoke a global hierarchy of places to be queer. The under-resourcing of and backlash against equality, diversity and inclusion initiatives, and colliding legislation such as hate crime laws and the UK Supreme Court ruling, expose a more complicated truth. The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com Open access was funded by UKRI.

Full Product Details

Author:   Yvette Taylor (University of Strathclyde, UK)
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:   Bloomsbury Academic
Dimensions:   Width: 15.40cm , Height: 2.20cm , Length: 23.20cm
Weight:   0.541kg
ISBN:  

9781350513020

ISBN 10:   1350513024
Pages:   344
Publication Date:   02 April 2026
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Forthcoming
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  

Table of Contents

Queer in a Wee Place: An Introduction - Yvette Taylor, University of Strathclyde, UK Foreword: Black Oot Here - Francesca Sobande and layla-roxanne hill Foreword: Interview with Sue John, Glasgow Women's Library, UK Foreword: Interview with Harry Josephine Giles Section 1: Queer Legalities: Challenges, Counts and Categories 1. Queer Dreams by Legal Means? The Hope of Rights in a Small Nation - Sharon Cowan, University of Edinburgh, UK 2. The Construction of Scotland's LGBTQ+ Population in the Census - Kirstie Ken English, The University of Glasgow, UK 3. Hate Crimes and the Classification of Queer Lives - Kevin Guyan, University of Glasgow 4. Queer Provisions in a Feminist Nation: Scotland's Menstrual Landscape - Kate Molyneaux, University of Strathclyde, UK 5. Welcome Home? Finding your (Queer) Place in Scotland and in STEM - Marco Reggiani, University of Strathclyde, UK, and Jessica Gagnon Section 2 New Scots? Queer Inclusions and Nationhood 6. Queer Provincialisms - Yvette Taylor, University of Strathclyde, UK 7. Queer Migration, Belonging and 'New Scots' - Francesca Stella, University of Glasgow, UK 8. New Scots: Border Crossings and Queer States of Refuge in Bella Caledonia - Raman Mundair 9. Queer in Scotland: A Wives' Tale in Conversation - Aoife Christoffersen, Independent Researcher, and Ashlee Christoffersen, York University, Canada 10. Queer Makars: Reflections on the Legacies of Edwin Morgan and jackie Kay - Andrés N. Ordorica Section 3: Homelands: Queer Myths, Migrations and Movements 11. Black Scottish Identity as Mythology - Natasha Thembiso Ruwona 12. A Home That Was Not: On the Queer Art of Leaving - Finn Mackay, University of West England, UK 13. Being Queer in Scotland: A Conversation - Dario Luis Banegas, University of Edinburgh, UK, and Drew Bain 14. A Queer Poetics of Belonging: Cultural Belongings Across Dhaka, Kolkata and Glasow - Rohit K Dasgupta, University of Glasgow, UK, and Tanvir Alim, University of Glasgow, UK 15. Furry Boots - Mae Diansangu 16. The Hidden Case of Ewan Forbes - Zoë Playdon, University of London, UK Section 4: Queer Creations: Beyond the (Edinburgh) Fringe 17. Queer Love Poems with a Twist? Because Being Gay is a Liberation Practice - Titilayo Farukuoye 18. Brilliant Vibrating Interface: Queering the Post-Internet through Poetry and Practice - Maria Sledmere, University of Strathclyde, UK, and Kirsty Dunlop, University of Glasgow, UK 19. Queer Wee Filmic Spaces: Glitch and the Scottish Queer International Film Festival - Leanne Dawson, University of Edinburgh, UK 20. International Stories on a Scottish Stage: Representation, Recognition and Activism through the As Is Ethnodrama - Harvey Humphrey, University of Glasgow, UK, Slater Clain, Gina Gwenffrewi, University of Edinburgh, UK, Mathew Wilkie, Leni Daly, Odhran Thomson 21. Thinking Through Queer 'Lad': Working-Class Cultures in Trackie McLeod's Work - Cole Collins, University of Edinburgh, UK, and Trackie McLeod 22. Queer Curiosities: Joe Derry Setch, Museum Galleries Scotland, UK Section 5: Wee Queers, Who Are We? 23. 'NOHOMO' in the Classroom: Queer Ideas Through and Beyond Scottish Classrooms - Dan Brown 24. Dancing Queer with Weans: Learning about Gender and Sexuality in Scottish Schools - Zinnia Mevawalla, Kate Molyneaux, Yvette Taylor and Kate Wall, University of Strathclyde, UK, 25. Culture for Wee Ones: Queer Performance for Young Audiences - Lou Brodie

Reviews

This is a dazzling collection, a volume that contains a marvelously rich mix from feminist and queer legal theory, to social and cultural policy as it impacts on queer and working-class communities in Scotland, to migrant queer experiences on the dancefloor. There is also biography and autobiography as well as ethnographic work in the classroom. A key feature is the importance of ongoing struggles and resistance against heteronormative assumptions and alongside this the need to challenge Scottish romanticisms about its progressive identity. Its a major achievement, an erudite and also a highly readable volume, a 'must read' indeed. * Angela McRobbie, Goldsmiths University of London, UK * This generative and confronting collection invites us to re-think, re-position, and re-imagine the imbrication of queerness and Scottishness, alongside other social differences. Taylor has curated an impressive array of creatives, scholars, and activists who explore the tensions, possibilities, pleasures, risks, and glitches that emerge for queer and trans people navigating their senses of belonging to the ‘wee nation’ of Scotland. * Senthorun Raj, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK * Yvette Taylor’s Queer in a Wee Place is a carefully curated collection of ‘big conversations’ about queerness in peripheral places in Scotland. It is attentive to where people come from, ‘noticing the dirt and delight of a back lane in Glasgow marked ‘lesbian library’, it remembers what was scrawled on the wall before it was scrubbed clean’. Revelling in interdisciplinary methods this collection dwells in local histories, languages, and social systems inviting readers to contemplate very specific places and practices and have shaped queer lives. * Mary Lou Rasmussen, Australian National University, Australia *

This is a dazzling collection, a volume that contains a marvelously rich mix from feminist and queer legal theory, to social and cultural policy as it impacts on queer and working-class communities in Scotland, to migrant queer experiences on the dancefloor. There is also biography and autobiography as well as ethnographic work in the classroom. A key feature is the importance of ongoing struggles and resistance against heteronormative assumptions and alongside this the need to challenge Scottish romanticisms about its progressive identity. Its a major achievement, an erudite and also a highly readable volume, a 'must read' indeed. * Angela McRobbie, Goldsmiths University of London, UK *

Author Information

Yvette Taylor is a Sociologist and Professor of Education, Strathclyde Institute of Education, University of Strathclyde, UK.

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