by Alice Beverton-Palmer
What’s the connection between certain women - from Lady Gaga to the Queen Mum - and queer society? This interview series, hosted by DJ and LGBT activist Alice Beverton-Palmer, explores the Dorothy in ‘friends of Dorothy’. Expect fresh, frank and funny interviews with famous names and unsung heroes, a new angle on the queer zeitgeist, and history you won’t have learned at school. Get involved on Twitter - we want your stories, and your guest suggestions. Tweet a name @Dorothy_Podcast and we'll try to make it happen. We're especially keen to talk to more women of colour.
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March 11, 2022
<div>For our last episode of season three, we meet another Friend of Dorothy: fashion lecturer and PR Tony Gill. Tony’s British Asian upbringing gave him a whole different set of gay icons to the ones host Alice grew up with - and the conversation may give you an appetite to work back through decades of Bollywood classics… </div> <div><br> </div> <div>Creator & host: Alice Beverton-Palmer</div> <div>Producer & editor: Laura Blake</div>
March 3, 2022
<div>Any history nerd will be excited to hear about Paula Akpan’s research into Black queer women in - and beyond - the British Women’s Lib movement. </div> <div><br> </div> <div>Paula is also currently working on her first book, When We Ruled: The Rise and Fall of Twelve Queens. Billed as “a book that will give voice to the women warriors and regents across the African continent often demoted to a footnote in history”, it will be published in hardback in 2024. </div> <div><br> </div> <div>As well as that research, and her work as a journalist, Paula (yep, she's busy!) is the creator of Black Queer Travel Guide, to help Black queer people travel around the world more safely. </div> <div><br> </div> <div>It’s amazing how much there is in our very recent past that’s at risk of being lost to the wider world without academics like Paula recording it - have a listen.</div> <div><br> </div> <div>Creator & host: Alice Beverton-Palmer</div> <div>Producer & editor: Laura Blake</div>
February 24, 2022
<div>Today’s interviewee, Rita, has proven the power of nightlife for the queer community better than maybe anyone else I’ve met. </div> <div><br> </div> <div>In the combination of her own life experiences, her career as a psychologist and in LGBTQ domestic abuse services, and with the groundbreaking queer Asian night Club Kali, Rita has created something very special indeed.</div> <div><br> </div> <div>That’s an incredible legacy for one club night to have. But it has a dynamic future as well as an important past - and we started there…</div> <div><br> </div> <div>Creator & host: Alice Beverton-Palmer</div> <div>Producer & editor: Laura Blake</div>
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