National Student Pride (NSP) has announce the launch of their new podcast «Queering the Air».
Headed by NSP student committee members; Celine Ponio Bagtas (she/her) and Reagan Spinks (he/him), this exciting venture focuses on platforming and «Queering the Air» with less privileged voices within the UK’s LGBTQ+ community.
Turning away from the celebrity-saturated podcast format, this new project advocates for those at intersectional identities by inviting them to speak at-length on personal experiences, the likes of which are rarely represented or documented in the wider media.
Their first episode «Across the Sea» centres a trans masculine gay man (using the alias of ‘Mo’) who recalls growing up in the Middle East where his first encounters with queerness came with a secret fascination for Ellen Degeneres on their TV screen, and recognising that women can have wives. He goes on to compare this «other world» to the wider community that surrounded him at the time, where children of opposing assigned genders were forbidden from playing together.
What this first episode details, that is particularly poignant, is Mo’s account of seeking refuge in the United Kingdom and transferring into the care of Social Services. Listen to Mo recount the reasons why he felt that he had to flee his family, home and country, including; his fear of facing persecution through so-called «honour-killings» Videos of which he’d seen circulated online.
@student.pride First episode of our #podcast “Queering The Air” is here! Listen via #spotify or #amazonmusic NOW and find more info on our Instagram #studentpride ♬ original sound – student.pride
