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Sex, Clubs, Dissent: Visualising Queer Nightlife - Amelia Abraham Writing which captures the community’s mourningSex, Clubs, Dissent: Visualising Queer Nightlife ed. by Amelia Abraham Published by Mack, 2026 284 pages Paperback Sex, Clubs, Dissent charts an expansive visual history of queer nightlife through the lens of photographers, filmmakers, and artists. Edited by author Amelia Abraham, the book explores how image making has fostered, and at times jeopardised, the formation of queer practices, subcultures, and forms of resistance. It asks what our decades