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Meg-John Barker
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Meg-John Barker is a writer and independent scholar whose nonfiction explores relationships, sex, gender, and queer thought through academic and graphic formats.
Biography
Meg-John Barker is a British writer, writing mentor, creative consultant, speaker, and independent scholar. They hold a PhD in Psychology from the University of Nottingham. Their professional background includes two decades as an academic psychologist at the Open University and work as a psychotherapist specialising in sex, gender, and relationships.
Barker’s books include Queer: A Graphic History, Gender: A Graphic Guide, The Psychology of Sex, and the relationships book Rewriting the Rules. They also write the Rewriting the Rules blog and have a podcast with sex educator Justin Hancock. Barker has written or edited academic collections on open non-monogamy, bisexuality, non-binary gender, and BDSM. They edited Psychology & Sexuality from 2010 to 2017 and were lead author of The Bisexuality Report and the BACP document on Gender, Sexual, and Relationship Diversity.
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Books by Meg-John Barker
Queer
Queer: A Graphic History, by Meg-John Barker with cartoonist Jules Scheele, explores the histories of queer thought and LGBTQ+ action. It examines how culture, biology, psychology, and sexology shape understandings of sex, gender, and sexuality, and how those understandings have been challenged.