Qmmunity – Details, episodes & analysis

In episode two of our Lockdown Radio Show, recorded live for Alphabet on Soho Radio Char and Lex are joined by journalist and documentary maker "the dad who gave birth" Freddy McConnell to talk queer parenting.

In our Swap It Like It's Hot section, Char and Lex review naughties lesbian teen drama Sugar Rush and the iconic Hedwig And The Angry Inch.

Season Two of Qmmunity is hosted by Char Bailey and Alexis Caught Alexis Caught, produced by Seb White of Alphabet Radio in collaboration with Soho Radio. Executive production support from Kevin Morosky and Effie Theos. Our charitable partners are The AKT and Mermaids.

We're back! Did you miss us? THANK YOU to everyone who dropped us messages on the socials (@qmmunitypod) asking when series 2 of Qmmunity was coming - it's finally here! We were in the process of polishing up all of our great interviews, and then...COVID-19 hit. So we pivoted, and here we are bringing you a socially-distanced version of Qmmunity for you to get involved with during isolation.

Join us this week as we catch up on life in lockdown, introduce our new "Swap It Like It's Hot" feature - a media club for you to join in with, and hear a wonderfully honest, raw and moving interview with intersex campaigner Anick. Please note, Anick's interview is very personal, at times challenging and contains details of medical procedures and suicide, though comes with an uplifting message. If you are affected by any of the issues discussed in this episode, you can call or instant message with the LGBT Switchboard on 0300 330 0630 (UK), or text START to 85258 for mental health support from mental health charity Shout.

Media References;
Anick's documentary 'The Intersex Diaries" (produced with Radio1) is available here
Char's recommendation in Swap It Like It's Hot is Sugar Rush, available on 4OnDemand, while Alexis' recommendation is queer cult classic, Hedwig and the Angry Inch.

Season Two of Qmmunity is hosted by Char Bailey and Alexis Caught, produced by Seb White of Alphabet Radio in collaboration with Soho Radio. Executive production support from Kevin Morosky and Effie Theos. Our charitable partners are The AKT and Mermaids.

Kimberlé Crenshaw coined the term “intersectionality” in her 1989 essay, “Demarginalizing the Intersection of Race and Sex: A Black Feminist Critique of Antidiscrimination Doctrine, Feminist Theory and Antiracist Politics".  

Recorded live at Ace Hotel's Miranda space in London Christania and Alexis are joined by COO of AZ Magazine Kayza Rose, Survival of the Fitteststar Ryan Cleary and Britain's first out Muslim Drag Queen Asifa Lahore.

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Founder of Bollywood Hip Hop night Hungama, Ryan Lanji, award-winning Abbey Kiwanuka, co-founder and director of Out and Proud African LGBTI and  Joshua, a member of the Manchester Village Spartans, a gay and inclusive rugby club join Christania and Alexis to share their stories about creating and building real spaces that we can go, get involved, and find a sense of belonging.

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Recorded live at Ace Hotel Shoreditch's Miranda space we held a conversation around the threats to our community.  Featuring UK Black Pride founder Lady Phyll, media commentator, columnist, activist & former editor of DIVA, Jane Czyzselska, Reverand Jide Macauley, founder of House of Rainbow and Trans Rights activist Sabah Choudrey.

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We read and hear about the LGBTQ+ community all the time, but those of us inside know that it’s not one huge group chat where everyone wants or needs the same thing.  So in this episode, we going to look at how people go about finding their place.

Recorded live in the Ace Hotel Shoreditch's Miranda space featuring Marc Thompson, Strategic lead for health improvement at Terrence Higgins Trust and Co-founder of Blackout and Prepster, Asad Dhunna, director of communications at Pride London & co-founder of The Big Gay Iftaar and motivational speaker Char Bailey.

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How has queer life changed over the years?  Is the LGBTQ+ community grieving for past lives and loves lost?

Intergenerational conversations are rare so in this episode, Christania and Alexis are joined by actress, cabaret singer and activist Mzz Kimberley and David Stuart, sexual health and sexual wellbeing advocate.

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Christania and Alexis are doing a Cher, turning back time and looking at the past 51 years of our Queer History.   Featuring Dr. Benno Gammerl, a lecturer at Goldsmiths University on the Wolrd's first Masters in Queer Hirstory and Marc Thompson, Strategic lead for health improvement at Terrence Higgins Trust and Co-founder of Blackout and Prepster.

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Christania and Alexis ask the big question to our live show panellists Reeta Loi CEO of Gaysians UK, artist and poet Chloe Filani, filmmaker and producer Steffan Zachiyah and Lewis Corner deputy editor of Gay Times.

This show was recorded live in the Miranda Ldn at Ace Hotel Shoreditch.

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Qmmunity is a LGBTQ+ series that will ask questions of ourselves, explore who we are as a whole and as individuals, where we have come from, how we’ve changed & developed and what the future may hold for us.

Join Christania and Alexis from 17th October.

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