The Wrap Chats: Recent Episodes
The Love Tank
The Wrap Chats are a short series of podcasts where host Phil Samba is going to be interviewing people from queer projects and organisations that are involved in The Wrap.
The Wrap is a project between The Love Tank and The University of Edinburgh asking about what strategies of care and resilience queer communities were employing to resist ongoing, emerging and exacerbated health inequalities, with a particular focus on resilience during pandemics.
Find out more about the project here: https://www.queerhealth.info/projects/thewrap
Daniele is the co-founder and community engagement director of Parapride, he’s been involved since the very start of its inception and worked tirelessly to keep the charity alive during the worst parts of the COVID pandemic. He talks to us about being queer and becoming disabled and how that naturally forced him to be resilient, and the evident need to address the lack of inclusion of disabled queer people.
Rudy is the co-founder of Trans Aid Cymru, he helped set up the organisation after the Conservative government scrapped the promised gender recognition act in June 2020 and has been integral to the organisation ever since. Rudy talks to us about being resilient as a result of his community not getting the support that they needed, he also talks about the uniqueness of being a mutual aid group in Wales and the pros and cons that come with that.
Toddy is a director and is part of the leadership team at Open Barbers, she also welcomes clients virtually and in person. She’s been extremely pivotal to keeping the organisation going during very challenging times of the COVID pandemic and talks to us about the origins of Open Barbers being rooted in queer resistance from the very start, the way the organisation rejects capitalism in its approach and more.
Alexandra is a Philosophy and Religious Studies secondary school teacher, academic and poet whose work focuses on Christian theologies of liberation, Islam within the Black American experience, and issues of social justice pertaining to gender, race, class, sexual identity and decolonising the education system. Taking a slightly different approach Alexandra talks to us from a personal perspective on queer resistance as a person of colour working in education, keeping in mind her ancestors.