# Event Details - **Event Name**: Queer Histories, Legacies and Imaginings - **Event Start and End Date**: Thu, 22 Jan, 2026 at 06:30 pm – Thu, 22 Jan, 2026 at 07:30 pm - **Event Description**: Join us for a conversation with Diana Souhami, Sadie Lee and Rebecca Birrell.About this EventJoin us for a special event with writer Diana Souhami, artist Sadie Lee and art historian and writer Rebecca Birrell that considers the histories, legacies and imaginings of queer culture.For this event, the speakers will be discussing researching and representing LGBTQ+ culture and women’s creative work.The evening will include an audience Q&A and the chance for discussion. We warmly welcome students and the general public alike to be part of the event.About the speakersDiana Souhami is the author of , , , (shortlisted for the James Tait Black Prize for Biography and winner of the US Lambda Literary Award), (originally published as Wild Girls), the bestselling (also winer of the Lambda Literary Award and a New York Times ‘Notable Book of the Year’), (winner of the Whitbread Biography Award), , (winner of the EDP Jarrold East Anglian Book of the Year Award), (shortlisted for the Crime Writers’ Association Gold Dagger for Non-Fiction), and the novel . Her most recent book is . She is a Rainbow List National Treasure and she lives in Cornwall.Sadie Lee is an award-winning British figurative painter. Her challenging paintings focus on a range of subjects, including the representation of women in art, sexuality, gender and the aging body. She has been selected to show work in many group shows including exhibitions at The I.C.A. and Museum of London. Solo shows include exhibitions at the National Portrait Gallery (London), Manchester City Art Gallery, Schwules Museum (Berlin) and Museum of Modern Art (Slovenia).Rebecca Birrell is a Research Affiliate at The Fitzwilliam Museum, where she was Curator of 19th and 20th Century Paintings and Drawings between 2021-2023. She curated the rehang of Galleries 1-5 that opened in March 2024. She is currently a Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellow at University of St Andrews. Her first book, This Dark Country: Women Artists, Still Life and Intimacy in the Early 20th Century was published by Bloomsbury in 2021. It was awarded an Antonia Frazer Award for a Biography in Progress by the Society of Authors in 2019. A Guardian/Observer Art Book of the Year 2021, it was described as ‘a striking act of collective empathy.’ It was also longlisted for the William M B Berger Prize for British Art History 2022 and shortlisted for the PEN Hessell Titlman Prize, 2022.AccessibilityThis event will take place in the VSR, a large, flat room on the ground level that you enter from the Main Walkway in Murray Edwards College. There are no stairs to enter or once you are in the room. There is plenty of room for wheelchairs wherever the user would like to sit, we can flexibly move chairs around and will do our best to accommodate any specific requests.Please get in touch if you have any further queries or requirements: womensart@murrayedwards.cam.ac.uk or call the Porter's Lodge at +44 (0)1223 762100.Please note this is a rescheduled event from 5 June 2025. https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events9/banners/3755ae90-b95b-11f0-91c5-2b5efab58087-rimg-w558-h740-dc15161b-gmir.jpg (2023) by Sadie Lee. Commissioned and donated by Annie Bartlett and Sandra Evans, 2023. - **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/cambridge/queer-histories-legacies-and-imaginings/100001921818042499 - **Event Categories**: art, literary-art, exhibitions, fine-arts, lgbt-pride - **Interested Audience**: - total_interested_count: 0 ## Ticket Details - **Ticket Price Range**: min: 0, max: 10, currency: GBP ## Event venue details - **city**: Cambridge - **state**: EN - **country**: United Kingdom - **location**: Murray Edwards College, University of Cambridge - **lat**: 52.2139664 - **long**: 0.10810349999997015 - **full address**: Murray Edwards College, University of Cambridge, Huntingdon Road, Cambridge, United Kingdom ## Event gallery - **Alt text**: Queer Histories, Legacies and Imaginings - **Image URL**: https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events7/banners/4f42ea0b009aa262aa3db05ce802a028226ce60143f570584ceda2f0728cbb33-rimg-w1200-h600-dcf0eed9-gmir.jpg?v=1762256436 ## FAQs - **Q**: When and where is Queer Histories, Legacies and Imaginings being held? - **A:** Queer Histories, Legacies and Imaginings takes place on Thu, 22 Jan, 2026 at 06:30 pm to Thu, 22 Jan, 2026 at 07:30 pm at Murray Edwards College, University of Cambridge, Huntingdon Road, Cambridge, United Kingdom. - **Q**: Who is organizing Queer Histories, Legacies and Imaginings? - **A:** Queer Histories, Legacies and Imaginings is organized by The Women's Art Collection. - **Q**: Who is this event for? Is it right for me? - **A:** Queer Histories, Legacies and Imaginings is ideal for art lovers, collectors, creatives, and anyone inspired by visual arts, installations, and exhibitions. Whether you're a first-time attendee or a longtime enthusiast in Cambridge, this event is thoughtfully curated to deliver a standout experience worth every moment. 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