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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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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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Protest In The Papers

The Protest against the exclusion of trans people from the conversion therapy ban went very well, roughly 200 people turned up – twice the amount of the last protest which also went extremely well – and there were some amazing speakers there, both trans people and cis allies. The run up to the event was somewhat draining for me and so I feel like my speech as chair of Norwich Pride’s Trans Advisory Group could have been a little better, but it still seemed to go down well. We had a fantastic song performance on acoustic guitar, and some fantastic on the fly speeches during the open mic session. Charlie and I also did interviews with Amy from BBC Radio Norfolk which will be coming out soon and I’m excited to share.

My Personal quote: “The government’s exclusion of trans people from the ban is deliberately malicious, but acknowledging that people deserve to be protected, they’ve admitted that they either don’t care, or want us to be mistreated with torture and abuse.”