BBC Sounds Podcast: Now Here

From a Liverpudlian pie shop reviving abandoned streets to a Welsh village reclaiming a radical past. From ‘citizen scientists’ exposing the slow death of the river Wye to activists resisting the loss of London’s queer spaces. Now Here tells stories of people fighting back. These very different landscapes share common threads. At their heart is a question: how can we rethink our relationship with the land and each other? We cross the UK to find out how ordinary people are making a new kind of future. One that isn’t a distant utopia. One that’s here, now.

The Loop

We are living in a new era of diversity-friendly corporations. These corporations are co-opting difference to wash over the violences of capitalism. Olimpia Burchiellaro argues that only by reconnecting identity struggles to questions of economic justice will we engender democratic transformations

Transforming Society

From big business sponsorship of Pride to annual rankings celebrating the most LGBTQ-friendly employers, the message that corporations are now diverse and inclusive places to work for LGBTQ+ people is being emblazoned on corporate headquarters, showcased on websites and promoted by visible LGBTQ+ senior executives. But what do these commitments to inclusion mean?

Pedagogies for Social Justice

The ‘Pedagogies for Social Justice’ podcast is a platform for students and educators to share and co-produce knowledge about the current challenges facing higher education.

Leverhulme Trust Newsletter

As corporate involvement in LGBT politics becomes increasingly global in its reach and ambition, Dr Olimpia Burchiellaro investigates its effects on local activism across Asia, Africa and Latin America

Planning Aid for London

In this episode, we speak with Amy, Peter, Silver and Olimpia from the Friends of the Joiners Arms (FOTJA) discuss how they successfully secured a planning condition that ensures the new development will include a LGBTQ+ run pub.

University of Westminster Blog

The Fellowship will document and explore the links between LGBT rights, corporate power, and hierarchy in global Southern, non-Western contexts.

Involve

Whilst the pandemic has further threatened already precarious queer lives, new forms of sociality have emerged. Queer House Party, a weekly virtual event which takes place on Zoom, is one such form of community-making which demonstrates not only the vulnerability but also the resilience and creativity of LGBTQI+ communities in times of crisis.

United in Anger: A History of ACT UP

Interview with Paolo Zeriali and Erkan Affan after the screening and post-film discussion/Q&A with Sarah Schulman and some of London's leading healthcare freedom-fighters Leasuwanna Griffith, Andria Mordaunt, Mazharul Islam, Miqhey Kannemeyer, Amelia Abraham.

Metro

Part of a four-day event and in collaboration with the London Artists Projects and Queer Tours of London, the award-winning Aids historian and ACT-UP activist Sarah Schulman is hosting events across the city, at Rich Mix, SOAS, and the ICA.

Queer Tours of London

Done with the sofa, done with the hall? Done with societal limitations on our sexual freedom? On 7th April 1998 in a Beverly Hills public toilet, so was George Michael.

Metro

Will Albert Square’s new gay bar represent the full spectrum of London’s incredible LGBTQIA+ community and the grit and rawness of our reality? Will it be wheelchair accessible, stay open past 11pm and play more than Kylie Minogue? Will Tina host a lesbian garage night? We have much hope.