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    Growing intimate privatepublics: Everyday utopia in the naturecultures of a young lesbian and bisexual women’s allotment
    with Neil Ravenscroft, Amelia Lee, Claire Holmes, Jacqui Gabb, and Niamh Moore
    Feminist Theory 15 (3): 327-343. 2014.
    The Young Women’s Group in Manchester is a ‘young women’s peer health project, run by and for young lesbian and bisexual women’, which runs an allotment as one of its activities. At a time when interest in allotments and gardening appears to be on the increase, the existence of yet another community allotment may seem unremarkable. Yet we suggest that this queer allotment poses challenges for conventional theorisations of allotments, as well as for understandings of public and private. In this a…Read more