One Year on the “Lesbian” Island – Reading from Joeys new book on full-on lesbian Lesbos stories.

It’s 2025 – and there are still lesbians who have never been to Lesbos? Unbelievable! This needs to change. Lesvos Air is launching a new route to the island – exclusively for lesbians! But strangely, the flights aren’t sold out. Is being a lesbian no longer a thing? Author Joey Juschka sets out to explore this phenomenon and the lesbian island along with it. She spends a year in Greece, uncovering what life is like in Sappho’s homeland. And it’s such a cliché: Lesbians on a lesbian island. Very lesbian, of course. And sapphic. And queer. And more!

At this reading Joey presents her brand new book: “Lesbos Lesvos. The Lesbian Island Book.” – a travel guide of short stories, at times also without any dykes in it, but instead with tourists who shower too much, Greeks who can’t afford swimming pools, and underwater pussies that appear in front of the world’s best bar.

Joey likes to wander the streets, watch everyday life, people, society – and write about it. She has published numerous short stories, columns, essays, audio plays and books. Recently, Joey has been lured away from her home in Berlin to distant places and lesbian depths alike: In 2022, she discovered the Greek “lesbian island” of Lesbos for herself, observing and noting down new stories of what she observes. In her own unique way of writing, she turns the seemingly mundane into humorous narrative, lacing queer perspective with philosophy, and adding a dash of exaggeration.

https://joeyjuschka.com/

Please note: There will be two separate book readings, one in English and another in German. Today’s book reading is in English.

The German book reading is scheduled for Saturday 20th September (please see programme page for further details)