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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.
When Jenny Chamarette faced a devastating health crisis, they found themselves unmoored from the rules of gender, sexuality and productivity. In a small South London garden, Jenny began to imagine another way of living: porous, unruly, rooted in the lessons of soil and plant life. Gardens, like identities, are usually bounded – but what if those limits can be re-drawn?
Blending memoir and cultural criticism, this book asks whether the categories we inherit – colonial, patriarchal, conventions of sexuality and gender – still serve us, or whether they confine us. From illness and recovery to queer love and ecological wonder, Q is for garden invites readers to reimagine how we inhabit land, culture and each other.
An eloquent work of nature writing and queer thought, Q is for garden digs into the rich history of queer gardeners, botanists, artists and agriculturalists. It offers a hopeful vision of belonging, if we are curious enough to unearth it.
Q: an introduction.
water::question?::autumn.
1 Q is for garden (on heritage, passing, and bothness)
2 kewrious (on queer bodies and transgressive gardening fashion)
3 arboretum, or the feeling of trees (on genderqueer forests and herb women)
earth::radix::winter.
4 hands in the mud (on labour, gesture, and earth connection)
5 Compost (on medium, matter, mutter, mother.
6 roots, rage and radicals (on recovery dreams, radical politics, and rebuilding)
air::change::spring
7 seed/lings in space (on seeds, science fiction, speculation)
8 Magnolia, fern (on prehistory, polygenderedness, erotics and shame)
9 hungry gap (on gardening, mortality, and seasonal dearth)
fire::rage::summer
10 love-in-the-mist (on wildflower meadows, queer community, and grief)
11 Tomato, skin, kin (on wolf peaches, persecution, and wild edibles)
12 burn (on fire, flow, and succession)
epilogue: verbena, knotweed, biopolitics (on queer art ecologies)