Really Queer is aimed at arming Queer & LGBTQIA+ people with the skills to flourish in a challenging world. Host Ben Kaye will draw together the themes and individual contributions of the guests, whilst Silva Neves guides the episodes through the psychological and personal issues many members of the Queer community may face in their daily life. We also hope our upcoming conversations speak and give insights to our wonderful allies and friends on levels they might not have heard or experienced before.
Really Queer
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Really Queer is aimed at arming Queer & LGBTQIA+ people with the skills to flourish in a challenging world. Host Ben Kaye will draw together the themes and individual contributions of the guests, whilst Silva Neves guides the episodes through the psychological and personal issues many members of the Queer community may face in their daily life. We also hope our upcoming conversations speak and give insights to our wonderful allies and friends on levels they might not have heard or experienced before.
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3/22/2024
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June 3, 2024
Season Recap - Ben & Silva
<p>Up close and personal with Ben & Silva!</p> <p>Here is a chance to hear from the hosts about what drives them, what brought them together and how Really Queer got started.</p>
May 20, 2024
Shame - Cliff Joannou
<p>Cliff Joannou is Editor In Chief at Stream Publishing working across Attitude magazine, the UK and Europe’s biggest LGBTQ+ media brand, and Rolling Stone UK, the world famous music, film, and TV brand.</p> <p>What is shame? It is usually unspoken and undetected because it is uncomfortable and/or part of some people’s everyday’s experiences. We all have shame because it is a normal human emotion. But shame can be uncontained when it is bubbling underneath the surface, undetected. </p> <p>Queer people have a particular relationship with shame because their sexual orientations, their eroticism, their gender identities, etc. tend to be shamed by our heteronormative and mononormative society. The seed of shame can be planted in early life by society and our upbringing by parents, and it can grow and grow until it becomes uncontained. On the surface, there are many behaviours that indicate that uncontained shame is pulling the strings: attacking self, attacking others (including bitchiness), perfectionism, or withdrawing/numbing (substance use, etc.). </p> <p><br>Shame is one of the single most debilitating factors in the struggle to forge a life one can value. It can destroy lives, and Cliff shares some of the challenges he has had to face down in his quest to thrive and succeed. Silva and Ben explore this issue, which is often so painful the individual may not even recognise it for what it truly is. By looking at the different psychological components of shame, they consider ways of reducing it’s influence in people’s lives, and point towards ways it can ultimately be disarmed. </p>
May 13, 2024
Queerness - Dalia Fleming
<p>Dalia is the Exec Director of Keshet UK, a charity whose ethos is that no-one should be made to choose between their Jewish and gay identity. </p> <p>Currently, her work often reaches those who have not traditionally considered or engaged with LGBT+ inclusion, and this is further explored during this episode. </p> <p>Being Queer means different things to different people, and there are some people who hate the word, too. Under the rainbow umbrella, there are many communities, all of which can be part of the “family of choice”. </p> <p>Being Queer is not only surviving the heteronormative world. It is also about thriving unapologetically. It takes courage and defiance for some of us, but it is worth it. Thriving within the community is also called “Queer Joy”.</p> <p>It is not about dismissing the struggles of living as a Queer person in this world, but it is about the hope of doing more than just surviving. Queer Joy, like any other emotions, is not static, it is not something we attain and hope to maintain. </p> <p>It is an emotion that comes and goes, like happiness or sadness, but to cultivate Queer Joy, as in, to allow enough space for Queer Joy to emerge once in a while; we need to work on ourselves, our mental health and our overall well being. </p> <p>One of the things we can keep doing is to make sure that we are always kind to ourselves, and not collude with internalised homophobia or negative self talk...</p>
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