Queer Flower Zine Sources
The language of flowers aka floriography is something that really interests me. Here I have collected the sources I used when making my queer floriography zines, there is a long history of queer people using flowers as a secret symbol or code, from violets and carnations to brocolli!
General
- Four Flowering Plants That Have Been Decidedly Queered - Sarah Prager, JSTOR
- Violet delights: A queer history of purple - Keava McMillan, V&A Dundee
- Queer Histories: The Symbols and Meanings of Flowers - Syaa Liesch, Gender Justice Project
- Not Seeing Straight - National Galleries Scotland
Pansies and the Viola Tricolour
- Plant Reproductive Morphology - Wikipedia
- The Pansy Project - Paul Harfleet
- A Thousand Pansies - Cedre Csillagi
Green Carnations
- Oscar Wilde's Carnation makes a Stately Return - Marie Woolf, The Independant
- Why the Green Carnation? - Oscar Wilde Tours
- “Still in her eye the Violets lie:” Queerness, Flowers, and Self-Expression in the 19th Century - Emma Frank, Telfair Museums