‘Slip my skin on over yours. Does it feel good to inhabit it? Do you like the fantasy of a beautiful thing?’

Join Hajar Press, Pear Nuallak and June Bellebono at Reference Point to celebrate the publication of Pearls from Their Mouth, an explosive collection of myths and musings on the body, desire and power. The launch will also exhibit artworks by the author.

Through speculative fiction and critical essays, Pear Nuallak explores what happens when messy, desiring bodies collide with the hard edge of power. The world’s neat categories are unmade and rewritten, revealing that racial capitalism’s myths are just as much fantasies as Thai bird princesses and transgender magic.

This book is built of stories and provocations—like the birth of a pearl, it transforms that which irritates, layer by layer.

‘A sharp and stunning queer offering, there to be worn like a charm.’

— Heba Hayek, author of Sambac Beneath Unlikely Skies

Pear Nuallak is a visual artist and writer from London. They run community art workshops and co-organise a queer social hub with the Black Cap Community Benefit Society. Their writing has been published in The Dark and Interfictions. Pearls from Their Mouth is their first book.

June Bellebono is a transfeminine writer, organiser and founder of oestrogeneration.

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