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Jenny Chamarette is a writer and cultural critic who brings film, art and everyday life into sharp conversation. Their work blends memoir with cultural criticism, drawing on gardens, archives and cinema to explore care, disability and queer ecologies in contemporary culture.

They are the author of Q is for Garden (forthcoming, Manchester University Press), a genre-bending work of creative non-fiction shortlisted for international writing prizes, and the forthcoming academic book Museums and the Moving Image (Bloomsbury), which rethinks cinema’s relationship to museums and public life. They also work as a curator and advisor with organisations including the BFI and LUX, and are a regular contributor to talks, festivals and arts broadcasting.

Chamarette is known for making theories legible while celebrating their complexity, bringing warmth, precision and political clarity to public conversation.

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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, they explore 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.

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