Writing in drag project


The collection of texts that make up Sally Fairbrass's writing are unusual in their frank pornographic portrayal of sexual acts which remain shocking to us so many years after their writing. The fact that the author, Sally Fairbrass, was a young working-class woman, in a male-dominated environment surrounded by the decaying industry of late 80s Doncaster only adds to their curiosity. These are not texts emerging from the avant-garde or from the cheap pornography of Mayfair and Escort, but from the mind of an ordinary young woman, from a fairly stable home environment, that enjoyed Top of the Pops and spent Saturday’s meeting her friends at Woolworths. The texts, which are published here for the very first time since 1991, can be read as a disturbing insight into the imagination of Sally, and by extension, a portrayal of a young woman’s existential rebellion against the world.


Text by Gareth Bell-Jones



All things SALLY FAIRBRASS



Green Ginger & Forced Rhubarb

By Sally Fairbrass

2017

Edition 100

Launched at the White Cubicle July 2017.

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Wolly Bolly Went to Donny

By Sally Fairbrass

2016

Edition 50

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Wolly Bolly Went to Donny

By Sally Fairbrass

2016

Edition 50

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WHEN FATE MADE MISTAKES

By Sally Fairbrass

launched in late 2020

Edition 100




WE'RE ALL QUITE HAPPY HERE

By Sally Fairbrass

2019

Edition 100

Launched at the ASP FAIR, ICA DEC 2019.

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THE CENTRELESS MIRROR OF THE RELATIVE ABSOLUTE

15 page guide book to the Barnsdale Forest

By Sally Fairbrass

2020

Edition 100

Launched at the ASP FAIR, ICA SEPTEMBER 2020.

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