Jenny Chamarette is a writer, curator and cultural critic whose work blends lived experience and cultural history. Writing across film, art and the living world, Jen explores queer ecologies, disability, care and the politics of attention, combining memoir with criticism to ask how lives - human and more-than-human - are shaped, tended and repaired. You can sign up to get updates about their writing here.
After two decades working in academia on film, art and visual culture, Jenny now writes and presents across literary, critical and broadcast media. They are also the author of Phenomenology and the Future of Film (Palgrave, 2012) and co-editor of Stephen Dwoskin Is… (BFI, 2027). Alongside writing, Jenny works with organisations including the BFI, LUX and the Clore Leadership Foundation on care-led cultural practice.
Jenny is a trained and qualified coach and mentor, and supports a range of writers, researchers and artists with a particular focus on queer, disabled and/or neurodivergent experience. Jenny welcomes commissioning enquiries from individuals and organisations for coaching, mentoring, training and facilitation.
Jenny Chamarette is a writer, curator and cultural critic whose work blends lived experience and cultural history. Writing across film, art and the living world, Jen explores queer ecologies, disability, care and the politics of attention, combining memoir with criticism to ask how lives - human and more-than-human - are shaped, tended and repaired. You can sign up to get updates about their writing here.
A bold, tender exploration of how queerness and nature entwine - and what happens when we step beyond the binaries that fence us in.
There is a Q in garden, but you can't always see it.
When Jenny Chamarette faced a devastating health crisis, they found themselves unmoored from the rules of gender, sexuality and productivity. In a small South...
The inaugural collection in the new VERVE Voices series, Queerphoria is a joyful and defiant queer-authored anthology proudly supporting Switchboard, the national LGBTQIA+ support line.
Four housemates welcome the reader into their home for a birthday party. An elderly widow visits her first queer bar, beneath the flat she shared with her...
‘A celebration of community, belonging, intimacy, healing, reclamation, connection, growth, grief, birth, and joy’ Victoria Bennett, author of All My Wild Mothers
'Dip into these pages as an allotment sceptic and you may well find your mind is changed. If you have a plot, you’ll be reminded of why all the hard work is worthwhile.’ The Garden
Join us for an evening where we will be weaving queer perspectives and histories with three authors, all exploring the threads between queerness and creativity in different ways and the power of documenting and archiving queer lives through the arts: embroidery, fashion and gardening.
Eleanor Medhurst is a historian of queer fashion and culture and author of the blog Dressing...
As part of Queer History Club we invite you to join Jenny Chamarette in discussing their new title Q is for Garden!
Q is for Garden is a bold, tender exploration of how queerness and nature entwine - and what happens when we step beyond the binaries that fence us in.
When Jenny Chamarette faced a devastating health crisis, they found themselves unmoored from...
Join us for a deep dive into how queerness and nature entwine; the social, the botanical, and how the inheritance of colonial, patriarchal, hetero and cis-normative categorisations have coloured our understanding of natural and horticultural worlds as well as of human ones. What grows when we use writing to explore gardens, forests, mountains and more with...
