Sunday August 23rd
17:00 – 18:30
Doors open at 16:45, the programme starts at 17:00
Entry: free, please register below
The Next Lazy Queer Sunday is planned for August 23rd at 17:00 with the theme ‘Queer Joy & Gender Euphoria’, featuring the new Queer & Feminist Poetry Anthology Vol. II by Unwanted Words.
‘Too often, queer stories are expected to center struggle. This anthology chooses to celebrate something else: joy, gender euphoria, softness, pride, pleasure, and the beauty of becoming.’
The event will feature a line-up of poets published in the anthology, a Q&A with the editorial team about the making of the book, and an open mic where you’re welcome to share your own words.
Come listen, connect, celebrate, and help us bring queer joy beyond the page.
Please register through the form below!
De volgende Lazy Queer Sunday staat gepland voor 23 augustus om 17u en heeft als onderwerp ‘Queer Joy & Gender Euphoria’, met de nieuwe Queer & Feminist Poetry Anthology Vol. II van Unwanted Words!
Meld je alvast aan via het formulier hieronder!
The Queer & Feminist Poetry Anthology Vol. II: Queer Joy & Gender Euphoria Edition is a bilingual collection in Dutch and English featuring the voices of 51 LGBTQ+ poets and spoken word artists based in The Netherlands.
This edition celebrates queer joy, gender euphoria, pleasure, pride, softness, and the power of collective imagination. At a time when queer stories are so often reduced to trauma, loss, or survival, this anthology invites you to reimagine alternative futures and center hope, love, and the freedom of becoming yourself. Through poetry and spoken word, these writers reclaim joy as something deeply radical: a form of resistance, healing, and transformation.
The anthology is published by Stichting Unwanted Words Project, an award-winning platform in The Netherlands dedicated to amplifying emerging queer, feminist, and marginalized voices through poetry, storytelling, community events, and artistic collaborations.
“Highlighting queer and feminist voices in poetry is essential to challenging longstanding structures of exclusion. This anthology reflects our valued partnership with Unwanted Words in amplifying work that not only mirrors the world, but actively reshapes it.” — Diana Chin-A-Fat, Director of Poetry International Festival
Naast de mooiste Nederlandse en Engelstalige literatuur vind je bij ons de leukste cadeautjes, een uitgebreide selectie aan poëzie en de belangrijkste boeken over LHBTQIA+, genderstudies, dekolonisatie, natuur & klimaat.