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Queerphoria with Jack Guinness'Poemy' poems! Decolonising attraction! Centring Brown voices! Jack Guinness meets poet and performer Gayathiri KamalakanthanGayathiri is a Tamil theatre-maker and poet. Their work explores how language shapes adolescence and how we might use it to queer the future. Gayathiri won the Disabled Poets Prize 2024, the Faber & Andlyn Publisher's Prize 2022 and the Primadonna Fiction Prize 2021.Queerphoria is brought to you by Gay Star News. Produced by Auddy. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
2024-06-2727 min
Chai with Rai“Outside of Gender” w/ Gayathiri KamalakanthanHad such a wonderful time discussing community and opportunity as freelance writers in the industry with the wonderful Gayathiri Kamalakanthan. And of course we discussed the writing process for the audio story "Chemo in the Summer".
About Gayathiri:
Gayathiri is a Tamil poet and sex education facilitator. They’re interested in how language shapes childhood and how we use it to queer the future. Gayathiri won the Faber & Andlyn Publisher’s Prize 2022, the Primadonna Fiction Prize 2021 and they were shortlisted for the Bridport Poetry Prize 2022. Gayathiri runs the poetry workshop series WORD-BENDERS at The Common Press...
2024-05-2922 min
The Purpose PodCancer Awareness Trust: Transforming every individual’s cancer journeyIn this episode Lee and Andlyn speak to Tony Colville, managing director of The Cancer Awareness Trust, and Fiona Debney, legal director and head of our not for profit & philanthropy team at Gateley Legal. Together they talk about how cancer has impacted their lives, why raising awareness is so important to them, and how a pioneering digital platform called the Cancer Platform is set to transform cancer outcomes globally, giving everybody access to expert knowledge and information, quickly and easily.
2024-03-0846 min
Chai with RaiChemo in the Summer by Gayathiri KamalakanthanThis is the last story from our storytelling series Symphonies of beaded threads. I have loved working on this project, bringing you something more than just an interview or a chat on the podcast and also just flexing that producing/ directing skill in the audio world. I have also appreciated your messages, you sharing each episode, tagging chai with rai and the artists involved. Now If you haven’t done so make sure to check out the previous 7 stories- comment, share and subscribe.
P.s this is also the 99th episode of Chai with Rai and I am...
2023-12-2009 min
The Black Writer's StudioYvonne Battle-Felton on The Black Writer's Studio PodcastYvonne Battle-Felton, author of Remembered, is an author, academic, host, creative producer, and writer. Remembered, was longlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction (2019) and shortlisted for the Jhalak Prize (2020). Winner of a Northern Writers Award in fiction (2017), Yvonne was commended for children’s writing in the Faber Andlyn BAME (FAB) Prize (2017) and has six titles in Penguin Random House’s The Ladybird Tales of Superheroes and The Ladybird Tales of Crowns and Thrones. Yvonne teaches creative writing at Sheffield Hallam University where she is a Principal Lecturer and Humanities Business and Enterprise Lead. Host of Write Your Novel with Y...
2022-06-0552 min