Cornwall has a long history of drawing artistic types, for the space, the light, and the rhythm of the waves.

In this final episode of The Quilt, Tash travels to the South West for a personal exploration of how queer creatives especially have been inspired in the region. They meet Veronica the queer pirate created by artist Scamp Niemz and queer historian Sophie Meyer, sing sea shanties with artist Rhys Morgan of Seaweed in the Fruit Locker, spend a night in the old home of the poet Charles Causley, and speak to Eirian Pascoe-Jones, one of the lesbians who illustrated a community newsletter called The Outback.

They say that history is cyclical. But it can also be seen, and felt, as a sea wave: coming and going perhaps, but always ready for you to immerse yourself.

For this episode, we’d like to thank Dr Jen McDerra, Queer Kernow, Alice Howard at Kresen Kernow, Stuart Slade at the National Maritime Museum in Falmouth, all the members of Seaweed in the Fruit Locker, The Charles Causley Trust and Exeter University Archives.

‘Angel Hill’ is published in Causley’s Collected Poems 1951-2000, published by Macmillan.

The Quilt is an Aunt Nell Production, in partnership with Queer Britain, the UK's first and only LGBTQ+ museum, and funded by Mindsets and Missions.

It is hosted and produced by Tash Walker and Adam Zmith.

Music by Rhiannon Takel.

The assistant producer was Marnie Woodmeade.

The associate producers for Queer Britain were Sue Shave, Siân Williams and Katharine Dick.

Mixed and mastered by David Pye.

Mindsets + Missions is funded by UK Research and Innovation in partnership with the Arts and Humanities Research Council and delivered by the Museums Association in partnership with The Liminal Space and the Association for Science and Discovery Centres.

Queer Britain museum is located at Granary Square, Kings Cross in London. It is free to visit and is open from Wednesday to Sunday, 12-6pm.

If you’d like to talk to anyone about any issues raised in this podcast, you can always contact Switchboard - the LGBTQIA+ helpline on switchboard.lgbt or 0800 0119 100.

Transcript available here

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Rhaid newid popeth medd hoywon a lesbiaid!

How can you describe your desires and sense of yourself when they don’t seem to fit with the language you use?

In this episode Adam travels to South Wales to meet Dafydd Frayling, a pioneering activist who disrupted arts festivals and radio broadcasts in the 80s to show how Welsh speakers needed new words so they could make queer people feel more included. He also meets young queer writers today, Leo Drayton and Nia Morais, who are making work about their identities and using Welsh in exciting and queer ways. And there’s a special contribution from the composer of the music for The Quilt, Rhiannon Takel.

When the words don’t work, we can bend them and invent new ones — and the history of how this has been done with queer Welsh is fascinating.

For this episode we’d like to thank Sara Huws, Daniel Bowen, Seiriol Davies, Mark Etheridge at Museum Wales, the team at the Sherman Theatre, and Glitter Cymru.

The Quilt is an Aunt Nell Production, in partnership with Queer Britain, the UK's first and only LGBTQ+ museum, and funded by Mindsets and Missions.

It is hosted and produced by Tash Walker and Adam Zmith.

Music by Rhiannon Takel.

The assistant producer was Marnie Woodmeade.

The associate producers for Queer Britain were Sue Shave, Siân Williams and Katharine Dick.

Mixed and mastered by David Pye.

Mindsets + Missions is funded by UK Research and Innovation in partnership with the Arts and Humanities Research Council and delivered by the Museums Association in partnership with The Liminal Space and the Association for Science and Discovery Centres.

Queer Britain museum is located at Granary Square, Kings Cross in London. It is free to visit and is open from Wednesday to Sunday, 12-6pm.

If you’d like to talk to anyone about any issues raised in this podcast, you can always contact Switchboard - the LGBTQIA+ helpline on switchboard.lgbt or 0800 0119 100.

Transcript available here

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Northern Ireland’s intriguing queer history draws Tash to Belfast.

In exploring stories that are often kept out of view, Tash hears tales of jailed men, a pioneering community helpline, and intersex experience. They speak to Michael Lawrence, a historian looking into the prison records of men who were convicted of buggery, and digs into the archive of charity Cara-Friend looking back over the letters people sent across its long and heartwarming history with Community Development Manager Adam Murray. The final patches added to our quilt in this episode are stitched by Hannah who shares her life experience, and why it’s important not to hide intersex people, and we end as Tash and Hannah march together at Belfast Trans Pride.

Queer history is often harder to find because it’s been hidden, but everyone in this episode helps to change that.

For this episode we’d like to thank Adam Murray at Cara Friend, Belfast Trans Pride, Grianne Starrs, Here NI and the staff at Ulster Museum.

The Quilt is an Aunt Nell Production, in partnership with Queer Britain, the UK's first and only LGBTQ+ museum, and funded by Mindsets and Missions.

It is hosted and produced by Tash Walker and Adam Zmith.

Music by Rhiannon Takel.

The assistant producer was Marnie Woodmeade.

The associate producers for Queer Britain were Sue Shave, Siân Williams and Katharine Dick.

Mixed and mastered by David Pye.

Mindsets + Missions is funded by UK Research and Innovation in partnership with the Arts and Humanities Research Council and delivered by the Museums Association in partnership with The Liminal Space and the Association for Science and Discovery Centres.

Queer Britain museum is located at Granary Square, Kings Cross in London. It is free to visit and is open from Wednesday to Sunday, 12-6pm.

If you’d like to talk to anyone about any issues raised in this podcast, you can always contact Switchboard - the LGBTQIA+ helpline on switchboard.lgbt or 0800 0119 100.

Transcript available here

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.