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Around four thousand years ago, the mysterious Minoans sculpted statues of topless women with snakes slithering on their arms. Over one thousand years later, Sappho wrote great poems of longing and desire. For classicist Daisy Dunn, these women—whether they were simply sitting at their looms at home or participating in the highest echelons of power—were up to something much more interesting than other histories would lead us to believe. Together, these women helped to make antiquity as we know it.

The idea of sexual fluidity may seem new, but it is at least as old as the ancient Greeks, who wrote about queer experiences with remarkable frankness, wit, and insight. How to Be Queer is an infatuating collection of these writings about desire, love, and lust between men, between women, and between humans and gods, in lucid and lively new translations.

A community discussion on queer lives in the city, the collectives born out of various activism histories and the everyday navigation of our myriad identities and relationships. Through approximately 10 shows, each between 20 to 30 minutes, we wish to explore sensitive topics bridging the political and the personal of queer lives. This show will be in conversational Benglish (a mix of Bengali and English), which is a deliberate choice as Sappho itself is situated in the context of West Bengal and the Bengali linguistic community.