What Rights Do Queer People Have? Surviving Endless Chaos: Pride and Community with Udoka | Podcast

‪@add-ideas‬ Writer, Performer, Organiser and Creative, Udoka Maya Okonkwo, spoke to us about the importance of what Pride can achieve and the interconnected issues that persist beyond marriage equality.

We spoke on the aftermath of COVID-19 and several continuing crises: AIDS, Economic, and Climate, and how they disproportionately impact the LGBTQ community and those living with disabilities.

00:00 Intro.
00:59 Visibility, Gender Identity and The Journey Towards Freedom.
06:44 Focusing on material gains, marriage equality and addressing continuing crises.
09:18 Discrimination and lived experiences.
12:58 Focusing on access, health and economic opportunities.
14:36 What Pride can achieve and finding community.
25:33 Exploring what is enough for us and organising.
33:56 Tools to tackling interconnected issues and the aftermath of endless crises.
48:00 “Substantive change needs substantive change.”
49:25 Finding joy and hope.
55:30 Wrap-up.
56:35 Outro and CTAs.

Follow Udoka Maya Okonkwo on LinkedIn:   / udoka-maya-okonkwo  

RESOURCES
Nadia Almada - Big Brother UK: https://www.radiotimes.com/tv/enterta...
Black Trans Foundation: https://www.consortium.lgbt/member-di...
London Trans Pride:   / londontranspride  
UK Black Pride: https://www.ukblackpride.org.uk/
Misery Party: https://www.instagram.com/miseryparty...
UK Cost of Living: https://www.leonardcheshire.org/get-i...
UN Highlights Human Rights Issues for People living with Disabilities: https://www.hrw.org/news/2024/04/04/u...
The working-age health crisis: https://www.bbc.com/news/health-68849843
UK disability statistics: Prevalence and life experiences: https://researchbriefings.files.parli...
Gaza and the hundred years’ war on Palestine: https://www.theguardian.com/world/202...

CLUBS
https://dalstonsuperstore.com/
https://www.instagram.com/heavenlgbtc...
https://www.instagram.com/tboys.club/...

BOOKS
Against Equality: Queer Revolution, Not Mere Inclusion (Ryan Conrad)
The Discworld Collector's Library (Terry Pratchett)
Global Black Narratives for the Classroom (BLAM UK)
Kindred (Octavia E. Butler)

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