Your Lavender Life: Disability History, Activism & Intersectionality
6:00 pm, Monday 23rd March 2026
Location: Daltons, Brighton, BN2 1TB
Tickets: Free, booking essential
Nu McAdam (he/they) & Suchi Chatterjee (she/they) present to you ‘Your Lavender Life: Disability History, Activism & Intersectionality' at Daltons.
At this event we will be talking about how important it is to archive personal queer and disabled histories in the local area. Recent years of taught us how much of our rights and autonomy is being taken away. In order to reverse this small steps can be keeping queer history safe.Queer history Sussex will be taking participants through how the online archive works with the support of community archivist Rowan Rush-Morgan.
This event will also feature a talk from Issac Samuel about disability justice, history and the future of community activism. Isaac Samuels OBE is a queer, disabled, brown social changemaker, speaker and activist working at the intersection of mental health, disability justice and racial equity. Drawing from lived experience and community organising, Isaac uses storytelling and co-production to challenge systems, amplify unheard voices, and reimagine what inclusion truly looks like.
At this event we will be talking about how important it is to archive personal queer and disabled histories in the local area. Recent years of taught us how much of our rights and autonomy is being taken away. In order to reverse this small steps can be keeping queer history safe.Queer history Sussex will be taking participants through how the online archive works with the support of community archivist Rowan Rush-Morgan.
This event will also feature a talk from Issac Samuel about disability justice, history and the future of community activism. Isaac Samuels OBE is a queer, disabled, brown social changemaker, speaker and activist working at the intersection of mental health, disability justice and racial equity. Drawing from lived experience and community organising, Isaac uses storytelling and co-production to challenge systems, amplify unheard voices, and reimagine what inclusion truly looks like.
We will have a donation station where you can put items to be archived. This is an opportunity for you to bring your collective history. (Please note the archive is digital, and you will be taking your objects home with you!).
Community champions Nu McAdam and Suchi Chatterjee will also be talking about their own history as well as research into queer intersectional history.
This event will be run by Queer Heritage South and will have opportunities to archive your personal history as well as explaining the importance of archiving queer history.
Access
We try and make sure there are as few barriers to people joining our events as possible. We can pay for participants to take taxis to/from events for reasons such as disability, health conditions, wellbeing and personal safety if it means they can come along and would not otherwise be able to. Please be aware that we have a limited budget for this so only request this if you need it. We would ask you to book and pay for your taxi/s and keep the receipt/s. We can then reimburse you if you fill in a short form, which we will send to those who have requested taxi expenses to be covered.
We are using a step-free venue. If you have any access requirements, please let us know in advance by emailing bianca@marlboroughproductions.org.uk
Queer Heritage South is a programme powered by Marlborough Productions. Made possible thanks to The National Lottery Heritage Fund.
Access
We try and make sure there are as few barriers to people joining our events as possible. We can pay for participants to take taxis to/from events for reasons such as disability, health conditions, wellbeing and personal safety if it means they can come along and would not otherwise be able to. Please be aware that we have a limited budget for this so only request this if you need it. We would ask you to book and pay for your taxi/s and keep the receipt/s. We can then reimburse you if you fill in a short form, which we will send to those who have requested taxi expenses to be covered.
We are using a step-free venue. If you have any access requirements, please let us know in advance by emailing bianca@marlboroughproductions.org.uk
Queer Heritage South is a programme powered by Marlborough Productions. Made possible thanks to The National Lottery Heritage Fund.
