Love, Rage and Living in our Full Humanity | Lady Phyll

Season 2, Episode 5,   Jun 17, 2021, 07:30 AM

You can pre-order my debut book, The Good Ally, via your favourite bookseller or online now: https://www.waterstones.com/book/the-good-ally/nova-reid/9780008439484 In this episode, I talk to the incredible community builder and speaker Lady Phyll about what lead her to found UK Black Pride, racism and how it intersects with other communities, managing expectations and overwhelm around roles when engaged in social justice work, and UK Black Pride 2021 as a space to imagine difference.

In this episode I have the pleasure of talking to the incredible community builder and organiser, Phyll Opoku-Gyimah also fondly known as Lady Phyll, who is the nucleus of the award-winning celebration and protest that is UK Black Pride. 

Lady Phyll is also the executive director of Kaleidoscope Trust, an organisation working towards the liberation of LGBTQ people around the world, an Albert Kennedy Trust patron and a public speaker focusing on race, gender, sexuality and class. 
 
My goodness do we take a deep dive in this episode. We have a beautiful conversation about some of the things that make us human. Phyll also shares what lead her to found UK Black Pride, racism and how it intersects with other marginalised communities, Christianity and its link to white supremacy, homophobia and colonial systems. We also talk about managing expectations and overwhelm in social justice work and the beauty of joy. We also talk about the forthcoming UK Black Pride Love and Rage taking place online on the 2-4 July 2021  - as a space to re-imagine difference.
 
Referenced in the episode:
 
- Kaleidoscope Trust kaleidoscopetrust.com (Twitter: kaleidoscope_t Instagram: kaleidoscope_t)
- Albert Kennedy Trust https://www.akt.org.uk/ (Twitter: @aktcharity Instagram: @aktcharity)
 
You can connect with Lady Phyll on social media via: 
Twitter: @MsLadyPhyll
Instagram: @ladyphyll
 
You can connect with me over at @novareidofficial
 
If you are ready to do the inner work and learn to be actively anti racist please visit my website for further details about my online adacemy: Becoming Anti-racist with Nova Reid 
 
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