Avoiding My Anxiously Attached Boyfriend

We’re joined by Lady Phyll, activist, community organiser and founder of UK Black Pride, the largest Pride celebration for Black and people of colour in Europe.

In this powerful conversation, Lady Phyll shares the story behind building UK Black Pride after being laughed at and told there would “never be a Black Pride in the UK.” What started as a small grassroots gathering has grown into a movement attended by tens of thousands, creating space for Black queer joy, safety and community. 

We explore Lady Phyll’s upbringing as a Ghanaian woman growing up in the UK, navigating racism in school, discovering activism through social justice work and the complicated journey of coming out in a deeply religious family. She also speaks candidly about racism within LGBTQ+ spaces, intersectionality, and why creating spaces specifically for Black queer people is still necessary today.

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This week we sit down with Helio, essayist, historian and cultural commentator, for a conversation that completely reshapes the way we think about empire, masculinity, queerness and power.

From Ancient Rome’s obsession with dominance and “bottom shaming”, to Emperor Hadrian deifying his lover Antinous… from Alexander the Great’s erased queer relationships to the ongoing exploitation of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, this episode travels across centuries to expose how colonialism didn’t just steal land, it rewrote history.

We explore how empires manufacture identity, how education becomes propaganda, how masculinity is weaponised, and why queerness has always existed, even though we may try to forget it.

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We're BUSY BEING BLACK! This week we sit down with Josh Rivers, creator and host of the award-winning podcast Busy Being Black, a platform centring queer Black joy, intimacy, spirituality and political consciousness.

Josh shares the origin story behind Busy Being Black, from a deeply personal dark night of the soul to building one of the most vital spaces for queer Black storytelling in the UK and beyond. We explore identity politics, shame, desire, anti-Blackness, and why visibility alone will never be liberation.

This is a conversation about spirit, softness, political awakening and remembering who you are beneath the labels.

If you’ve ever questioned your identity, your desires, or your place in the world, this episode is for you.

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In this episode, we’re joined by Jenny, founder of Meet Cute Cakes in Manchester, for a funny, intimate and unexpectedly deep conversation about love, identity, anxiety and building a life on your own terms.

Jenny talks about growing up, coming out, and why she’s never quite connected with labels, exploring queerness, internalised homophobia, and what it means to feel secure in your identity without needing to define it. 

Alongside the laughs, this episode gets real about panic attacks, anxiety, OCD, and the quiet ways mental health can shape big life moments including weddings, travel and social spaces. Jenny also shares how Meet Cute Cakes began, why “cute” doesn’t mean small, and how creativity, work and queerness often intertwine.

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In this episode, we’re joined by Jerome and Jacques, partners, creators and the people behind the viral cat duo Lupin and Rajah.
They share how a love story that began on a nightclub dance floor grew into a life together, a creative partnership, and an unexpected online following built around joy, softness and visibility in public spaces.

Jack opens up about growing up in France in the 1990s, experiencing homophobia at school, including being called “fagg*t” by a teacher and how those early experiences shaped his sense of safety, identity and self-expression. Together, they reflect on coming out, trauma, and the long process of learning to be visible without shrinking yourself.

We explore how Lupin and Rajah became emotional support animals, how cats changed the way strangers interact with them in public, and how social media transformed a personal coping mechanism into a global audience. 

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