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Seventh episode of Queer Catch-Up talks feeling good and Bristol Pride
In the seventh episode of the Bristol24/7 Queer Catch-Up, Kit and Lowie chat all things Pride and feeling good in your body.
Following the launch of the Bicep Brotherhood from Kathy Gill, a personal trainer, the pair talk about trans people feeling safe in gym spaces and happy in their bodies.
Kath Gill runs personal training programmes for trans masculine and non-binary people, helping them to feel more comfortable in their bodies and alleviate dysphoria.
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Kit and Lowie are also joined by Francis Myerscough, who runs the Phoenix Project, another individual helping queer people feel better in their own skin.
The Phoenix Song Project helps people identifying as transgender and non-binary to create relationship with their voice through a combination of therapeutic work and knowledge sharing.
Francis, who is a trained music therapist, supports members of the project to explore their voice, selves and body, and has been about to launch a choir when the coronavirus pandemic struck.
Since early 2020, they have been running their practice online and is about to launch an online puppet group to explore physicality in the limited space of the screen.
“Virtual work can feel like it limits how much we can bring the body to session,” says Francis. “Puppets are a creative medium to meet this challenge. Voice and body are so very intertwined, so bringing the body to session is invaluable.
“The metaphor of the puppet can give us permission to be silly and go some way to avoiding the feeling that we have to sound ‘good’ all the time.”
Francis Myerscough and Terri the puppet
Kit and Lowie also talk about Pride and the excitement they feel about seeing their queer friends in real life again.
Bristol Pride has announced that it will return as an in-person festival for 2021, following a virtual Pride in 2020.
Pride Day will take place on Saturday, July 10. Organisers hope the march will go ahead in its usual format, but the community events following will take place in Castle Park instead of the Downs, where the festival moved to in 2019.
Hoping to return the north Bristol green space in 2022, Pride Day activities in Castle Park will include a food market, family and youth areas and roaming live performances.
The two-week long festival will also include lots of LGBTQ+ nights, such as theatre, circus and film.
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Main photo: Dan Sheppard
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