Do You Believe In Life After Loss?

In his debut anthology, Andrew Flewitt asks eight writers and thinkers the complex question: Do You Believe in Life After Loss? Exploring experiences of loss – from bereavement and relationship breakups to loss of community, safety and identity – the book considers how queerness might help people to navigate it. Andrew will be joined by contributors from the anthology – Juno Roche and Luciana Cousin – to read from the book and discuss the pertinent questions that arise from it.

Andrew Flewitt is the creator and host of Queer I Am, The Podcast. The podcast that celebrates and amplifies voices of the Queer community was launched back in 2022, and is now recording its 6th Season, which will be released in the Summer of 2025. In May 2025, Andrew’s debut book, Do You Believe in Life After Loss? Queer Stories of Loss, Hope and Resilience was published globally via Jessica Kingsley Publishers.

Luciana Cousin builds spaces where people feel safe, seen and supported, without shrinking or apologising. From owning and running a venue to creating bobu, she’s lived the beautiful, the brutal and everything in between. bobu is the next chapter of Across Rainbows, the company Luciana founded to challenge how society treats LGBTQ+ identities. Inspired by her own journey, her son Nick’s, and every person who’s ever been told they’re ‘too much’ or ‘not enough’, she’s seen how labels can quietly shrink people. With bobu, she’s taking that mission beyond the LGBTQ+ community, working with businesses, venues, and teams to create spaces where everyone feels safe to show up as themselves. 

Juno Roche is a writer and campaigner whose work around class, gender, sexuality and trans lives has been funded by the likes of The Paul Hamlyn Foundation and described as ‘provocative and innovative’. Juno studied Fine Art and Philosophy at Brighton, and English Literature at Sussex, and has written for a wide range of publications including Bitch magazine, Dazed, Vice, Broadly, Cosmopolitan, the i, the Independent, i-D, the Tate magazine, Refinery29 and The Victoria and Albert Museum.They are the author of four books: Queer Sex, Trans Power, Gender Explorers, and their memoir, A Working-Class Family Ages Badly.

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