For the March meeting, UCL Laws FBC will be reading Notes of a Crocodile by Qiu Miaojin.
A poignant masterpiece of social defiance by a singular voice in contemporary Chinese literature.
Set in the post-martial-law era of late-1980s Taipei, Notes of a Crocodile is a coming-of-age story of queer misfits discovering love, friendship, and artistic affinity while hardly studying at Taiwan's most prestigious university. Told through the eyes of an anonymous lesbian narrator nicknamed Lazi, this cult classic is a postmodern pastiche of diaries, vignettes, mash notes, aphorisms, exegesis, and satire by an incisive prose stylist and major countercultural figure.
Afflicted by her fatalistic attraction to Shui Ling, an older woman, Lazi turns for support to a circle of friends that includes a rich kid turned criminal and his troubled, self-destructive gay lover, as well as a bored, mischievous overachiever and her alluring slacker artist girlfriend.
You can buy a copy of the book here
UCL Laws Feminist Book Club
The UCL Laws Feminist Book Club brings together staff and students at all levels to talk about books in an informal setting.
We'll meet once a month during term times. You are welcome to drop in on individual sessions, or to attend regularly – whatever works for you.
The UCL Laws Feminist Book Club was set up in 2018 with the aim of creating a strong feminist network within the law school. We invite feminist students (LLB, LLM, and PhD), faculty, and staff to join us for monthly meetings in which we chat informally about a work of female-authored fiction. We have structured the group as a book club because, well, we all like to read – and we believe that it’s important to supplement our work and studies with non-academic reading. It helps to keep us grounded, enriched, and energised. The book club is an inclusive, non-hierarchical, and non-judgmental space open to all genders. Join our newsletter - http://eepurl.com/ibn6Vz.