Book Launch: Pearls from Their Mouth by Pear Nuallak

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

— Heba Hayek, author of Sambac Beneath Unlikely Skies

Join Hajar Press, Pear Nuallak and June Bellebono at Reference Point to celebrate the publication of , 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.

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

About the speakers:

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. is their first book.

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

About the organiser:

Hajar Press is a new, independent and proudly political publishing house run by and for people of colour.

Event Venue & Nearby Stays

Reference Point, 2 Arundel Street, London, United Kingdom