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Pride Appearence

At Norwich Pride this year I conducted an interview for the Natasha Curson talk, a memorial event commemorating a woman in the trans community who helped start up Norwich Pride. It was my pleasure to conduct an interview with Adrian Sweeny, an up and coming social media influencer who has been recording his transition for roughly ten years. The interview was translated through BSL and there were graphic story boarders who have recorded the talk – it was a fantastic and fascinating experience, and hopefully I will be the regular interviewer from now on!

The Graphic Notes of the event
Following the interview was a 4 way panel discussion!
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Songs Of Hope And Protest

I’ve been engaged lately with The Common Lot’s original production based around the history of the British protest song, both singing in the choir and offering some scenes and my crafting services. I’ve made a few protest signs for use in the show and I’m most proud of this one, which I’ve made to look like community zine with misplaced ink.

Featured in the show will be a section on police abuse of LGBTQIA+ people, and a new trans verse for “Glad To Be Gay” (updated by Charlie Caine) and a reference to the conversional therapy ban fiasco. Many minorities have been represented in the show and I’m excited to see the final piece on stage and perform with the choir.

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Protest On The Radio

We’re thrilled by the amount of coverage we’ve gotten for our protest recently – as LGBT+ people we are, naturally, a little wary of the media but the reporters who attended/wrote about our event were very positive and didn’t give a platform to anyone who opposed the rights we were advocating for, which is rare and very appreciated!

Here you can listen to the interviews Charlie and I did as well as some audio from the protest, at the 50 minute time stamp.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p0bzh6d1

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The Left Lion

I painted this as a background for a Norwich Virtual Pride 2020 video, in which I narrated a short story, It depicts one of the bronze lions outside Norwich City Hall (acrylic).