"Our mission is to bring queer books by queer authors to all readers, both from within the queer community and our allies. And we'll achieve this without compromising the authenticity or integrity of our queer books and authors."
"Yes, it's been used as a homophobic slur since the late 1800s, but in early modern England pansies were worn by men and women to indicate that they didn't intend to marry. In Shakespeare's Midsummer Night's Dream, Puck gives the Queen of the Fairies a magic potion made from the juice of the pansy that will make her wake up and fall in love with the first person she sees - so the pansy has the power to inspire a love that overrides social rules and disrupts the social order."
"We think this sums up the ethos behind Pansy - political and disruptive, but also playful and fun. The name was chosen in part to reclaim the homophobic slur as an act of empowerment."
Pansy is a boutique independent publisher founded by novelist Matt Cain and his husband Harry Glasstone, launching June 4 with Cain's novel The Castle of Stories. The publisher aims to bring queer books by queer authors to all readers, both within the queer community and allies, without compromising authenticity or integrity. The name reclaims a historical homophobic slur as an act of empowerment while honoring queer history. In early modern England, pansies symbolized resistance to marriage, and Shakespeare's Midsummer Night's Dream features pansies as agents of transformative love that disrupts social order. The venture responds to increasing book bans influenced by US pressure groups, with UK librarians facing growing requests to remove books.
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