1 hr 1 min
Hidden Voices: Northern Ireland ReportOUT: Hidden Voices
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‘To not be fearful is privilege’.
In this episode we speak to Cat (She/Her) a Northern-Irish Lesbian living in Kuala Lumpur. Cat joins us for talking about cofounding an underground Queer creative community in an interracial queer couple, experiencing white privilege in Malaysia and growing up in a colonized Northern Ireland. Read below to hear more about her:
Cat Brogan is the Northern Irish co-founder of a LGBT social centre in Kuala Lumpur, where she has been based since she received British Council funding in 2016 for a Spoken Word Project in Malaysia's capital.
Cat hosted Camden LGBT forum's arts event Incite for a number of years, has featured at Polari in the Southbank Centre, Belfast Pride and LFest. She has performed in over 20 countries including Pakistan, Kenya, Cambodia, Philippines, Singapore, Nepal and New York.
Tedx speaker, Cat received an MA in Spoken Word education from Goldsmiths University. She has performed her poetry at festivals (Latitude, Electric Picnic, WOMAD), won Slams (BBC Edinburgh Fringe Poetry Slam, Farrago), been published in collections (The Golden Shovel) and featured on BBC & Irish Media.
Find out more about Cat's work and read about their KL Queer Space here: https://www.catbrogan.com
http://bit.ly/klqueerspace
‘To not be fearful is privilege’.
In this episode we speak to Cat (She/Her) a Northern-Irish Lesbian living in Kuala Lumpur. Cat joins us for talking about cofounding an underground Queer creative community in an interracial queer couple, experiencing white privilege in Malaysia and growing up in a colonized Northern Ireland. Read below to hear more about her:
Cat Brogan is the Northern Irish co-founder of a LGBT social centre in Kuala Lumpur, where she has been based since she received British Council funding in 2016 for a Spoken Word Project in Malaysia's capital.
Cat hosted Camden LGBT forum's arts event Incite for a number of years, has featured at Polari in the Southbank Centre, Belfast Pride and LFest. She has performed in over 20 countries including Pakistan, Kenya, Cambodia, Philippines, Singapore, Nepal and New York.
Tedx speaker, Cat received an MA in Spoken Word education from Goldsmiths University. She has performed her poetry at festivals (Latitude, Electric Picnic, WOMAD), won Slams (BBC Edinburgh Fringe Poetry Slam, Farrago), been published in collections (The Golden Shovel) and featured on BBC & Irish Media.
Find out more about Cat's work and read about their KL Queer Space here: https://www.catbrogan.com
http://bit.ly/klqueerspace
1 hr 1 min