June Thomas
@junethomas
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Author, A Place of Our Own: Six Spaces That Shaped Queer Women's Culture. Ex-Slate. Newsletter: https://t.co/4Jbu2eGmAa Back in UK after 40 years in US
Edinburgh, Scotland
Joined January 2008
Some news! So excited to be working with Grace McNamee and always grateful for the world's best agent.
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It’s utter shite, but this week The Morning Show used my all-time favorite plot device: Well, actually, I DO speak this foreign language.
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Shocking, exasperating story in The Mill: The Global Banking School is one of the UK’s most lucrative ‘universities’. But who’s footing the bill?
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Former staff allege the school accepts students who have no intention of ever repaying their loans
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I talked to Allison Tyra on the great Infinite Women podcast about my book and the need for queer women's places:
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June Thomas, author of A Place of Our Own: Six Spaces That Shaped Queer Women's Culture, guides us through lesbian bars, feminist bookstores, softball pitches, communes, sex toy stores and holiday...
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Twitter mourning the loss of the free NYT mini crossword is a throwback to a simpler time.
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Just saw this old tweet when zipping about this cursed app--and just to avoid any confusion, please know I withdrew my book from consideration:
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A UK LGBTQ+ writing prize seems to be crumbling as the queer community protests the inclusion of an anti-trans writer on the long list. Trans prisoners in Georgia accuse the state of cruel and...
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I just found out that Laura Benanti is doing a show at the Edinburgh Fringe, and there are STILL TICKETS LEFT! For 15 QUID! One of the superstars of American musical theater!
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What an honour to be longlisted with such a wonderful selection of titles.
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@willapaskin And for the record, I love my American dentists—not a lot of authors thank their dentists in the acknowledgments of their book, but I did!
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Thanks to hyper-talented (and hyper-patient) producer Evan Chung, world’s best podcaster (and pal) @willapaskin, and all the amazing guests.
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I still can’t believe I got to make an episode of Decoder Ring on my favorite topic : teeth! Specifically, why do Americans bad-mouth British teeth?
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Podcast Episode · Decoder Ring · 07/30/2025 · 47m
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Let's laugh--I mean LOOK--at some of the display ads that appeared in the 1970s gay press:
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I’ve been bonkers busy the last couple of weeks, as a couple of projects I’ve been working on for more than 18 months (one fitfully, the other consistently)...
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Such smart, empathetic, enraging, coverage of the second trial of Constance Marten and Mark Gordon from @SophieElmhirst: https://t.co/6B0j08ip3W Fantastic journalism.
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The long read: How did the daughter of an aristocrat end up at the Old Bailey with her partner, charged with killing their two-week-old baby?
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So much fun to join Dana and Julia on this week's @SlateCultFest to discuss Sorry, Baby; Dear Ms.; and Marc Tracy's NYT essay about the shrinking straight white male literary fiction bookshelf:
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Sorry, Baby, Eva Victor’s sly breakout debut, is a hard-to-process film about unprocessable trauma.
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A brilliant consideration of queer dance praxis from @jbryanlowder Dancing for Pride: In 2025, is queer dancing really still a political act?
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It’s hard to imagine that a bunch of sweaty gays dancing to Sabrina Carpenter could constitute a “resistance.” Then again, we’ve done it before.
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As sad as I am that I didn’t get tickets for one of the @edbookfest events I was most excited about (Jackie Kay’s archive tour), I love living in a city where you log on at 10:00:00 and find yourself 1,658th in the queue! (And I did get other tix!)
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As a native Wiganer, I was SHOOK by today's Connections grid! All that's missing is the babby's yed.
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Forget the first cuckoo of spring, I just made my first opinionpalooza visit to https://t.co/aglssBcuK6 (where I learned that the next decision day is tomorrow).
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Independent News & Analysis of the U.S Supreme Court
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If you're in Edinburgh on the evening of Wednesday, June 4, this event with Silver Moon's Jane Cholmeley and me, in the @Lighthousebks garden, will be a BLAST!
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