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A community discussion on queer lives in the city, the collectives born out of various activism histories and the everyday navigation of our myriad identities and relationships. Through approximately 10 shows, each between 20 to 30 minutes, we wish to explore sensitive topics bridging the political and the personal of queer lives. This show will be in conversational Benglish (a mix of Bengali and English), which is a deliberate choice as Sappho itself is situated in the context of West Bengal and the Bengali linguistic community.

For centuries, evidence of queer love in the ancient world was ignored or suppressed. Even today, only a few, famous narratives are widely known - yet there's a rich literary tradition of Greek and Roman love that extends far beyond this handful of stories. Here, the poet Seán Hewitt and painter Luke Edward Hall collect together, for the first time, forty of the most exhilarating queer tales in the classical canon and bring them newly to life.

The idea of sexual fluidity may seem new, but it is at least as old as the ancient Greeks, who wrote about queer experiences with remarkable frankness, wit, and insight. How to Be Queer is an infatuating collection of these writings about desire, love, and lust between men, between women, and between humans and gods, in lucid and lively new translations.