TABLE

Who sits on your table of life? And who are you when you take the seat of a guest in the life of your friends? These are the question we ask on this episode of Fags in Fendi, as we expound on the metaphor of the table we explored in earlier episodes.

COMMUNITY

What does community mean to you? And how can we stand in for each other as a community? While we continue to seek allies to support our cause as queer people and queer BIPOC, we must also acknowledge that we have to be allies for each other. In this episode we discuss what it means to find comfort …

BUSINESS

Choosing to be a person in business is a challenge at the best of times. Add to that the element of queerness, and of being BIPOC, and there you have an extra layer of hustle in the game. In this episode we discuss, honestly and frankly, the challenges of choosing to be a queer BIPOC entrepreneur, …

LOVE

We live in a world that tells us that we should seek love and reject love all at the same time. The duality of the message around relationships has created an interesting generation of people, seeking companionship and independence at the same time. Notions of relationships within queerness are f…

ENERGY

We often hear discussions through various forums about “protecting your energy”. But what does that practically look like? Some say it means curating your friend circle to the absolute detail, and associating only with those “like” you. Others say it’s about having an open personal energy, to attra…

BEAUTY

Let’s get down and talk about what beauty looks like in the queer world. How do we define beauty? And how much of our understanding of what is beautiful finds itself in eurocentricity?  Queer BIPOC find ourselves confronted by exclusionary ideas of beauty, and often struggle to find community wit…

REPRESENTATION

To see ourselves reflected in popular culture, is to see ourselves centred in the world. Very often queer people of colour are “othered” from childhood - first as being a person of colour or migrant in white majority spaces, then as being at odds with the world because of our queer experience with …

MANLY

We interrupt our regular programming to discuss in detail (from our lens) the Manly Sea Eagles drama that has been in the media recently. For those of you not familiar with the incident, in short - the Manly Sea Eagles management decided to include a rainbow stripe on their jerseys for a pride gam…

CULTURE

Culture is the collective expression of a community. But what happens at the intersectionality of queer culture and your culture of birth? What happens when, as migrants, your culture becomes an immovable, stagnant identity, that clings to its point of origin? Queer people have often felt a sense o…

GAY

It is an undeniable reality that to be queer in the face of heteronormativity is to be brave. Being a person of colour adds a layer of difficulty to expressing queerness, not just in our own communities, but to society at large.  After watching the hit Netflix show Heartstopper (based on the YA we…