From Bex Wade’s review of the book Sex, Clubs, Dissent: Visualising Queer Nightlife by Amelia Abraham (MACK, 2026) for ArtReview:
A die-cut peephole punctures the cover, revealing Meryl Meisler’s photograph of two women embracing on a nightclub floor beneath. The gesture feels familiar. Queer nightlife has consistently been constructed through visual codes of secrecy, voyeurism and transgression. Inside, however, the book’s editor, Amelia Abraham, rejects any sanitisation of subject matter, allowing different histories, desires and social worlds to glitch and collide as the book progresses.