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 gender and/or sexual orientation. 

Our presence in the psyche of the majority is bookmarked by moments, not many as significant as the release of Vogue by Madonna on the 27th of March 1990, which brought the, until then, underground world of queer people of colour, the Ballroom, into the lexicon of popular culture. On the 29th of July 2022, we had another moment, the realise of Beyoncé’s Renaissance Act I - a complete celebration of who we are as a people. 

In this episode we talk about the importance of representation, and what it means to be seen, and heard in a world that often feels like it would rather forget us. All discussed with humour, and a call to action! Be loud darlings!