#phyll opoku-gyimah

[queerafricans]

British-Ghanaian activist Lady Phyll, Danish-Somali-Ethiopian-Turkish model Mona Tougaard and Scottish-Rwandan actor Ncuti Gatwa for the July 2023 Pride issue of British Vogue

#lady phyll #phyll opoku gyimah #phyll opoku-gyimah #ghana #mona tougaard #somalia #ethiopia #ncuti gatwa #rwanda #magazine #tw #nudity

[gwydionmisha]

#Phyll Opoku-Gyimah #UK Government #LGBTQIA+ Rights #Kaleidoscope Trust #News

[ladymazzy]

Lady Phyll - Black Pride & Honouring the Ancestors - Guerrilla Foundation

#phyllis opoku-gyimah #lady phyll #lgbtq+ rights #black history month uk #october black history month #black pride

[fyeahtimwalker]

Lady Phyll by Tim Walker for Vogue UK's Pride Portfolio, July 2023 edition

Phyll Akua Opoku-Gyimah, 48, activist and cofounder of UK Black Pride.

Styled by Kate Phelan.

#tim walker #lady phyll #british vogue #vogue uk #vogue #lgbtq history #lgbtq+ pioneers #uk black pride #pride month #portrait photography #editorial #kate phelan #british photographer #queer artist #activist #black british #black model #black women #queer woc #july 2023 #2023 #black britain

[ayeforscotland]

Wait what charity stream

We've done a few!

First one was for the Time for Inclusive Education (TIE) Campaign. They achieved their goal and Scotland became the first country to embed LGBTQ+ education across the whole curriculum. We had loads of speakers on, teachers, politicians, viewers, and someone actually came out on one of the interviews.

Note: The whole curriculum, not just as a footnote in sex ed.

Then last year we did a huge stream for the Equality Network which I co-hosted with @skye-blacke and again had loads of people call into the stream including SNP MP Mhairi Black, Co-Leader of the Greens Lorna Slater & Patrick Harvie, Founder of UK Black Pride Phyll Opoku-Gyimah, and loads more. We spoke about Gender Recognition Act Reform, spoke to the team from End Conversion Therapy Scotland and raised a whole load of money for the Equality Network to continue their work in championing equal rights for the LGBTQ+ in particular the Trans community. It's available on my YouTube archive channel 'AyeforScotland Live'

Last stream we did was with @beatles-fan-derogatory where we played a lovely game called It Takes Two and raised money for Endometriosis UK. Jessica had been on her own journey with Endometriosis so we wanted to raise some money to kinda repay the support that people had showed her.

And I may or may not be planning the next one...

#AyeforScotland #Charity Streams

[confirmative-praxis-esb]

Theoretical Research:

Day 5. Artists on the Frontline Artists on the Frontline - A Panel on Art's Role in Community Healing  https://youtu.be/Yc77brIaVnU Phyll Opoku-Gyimah talked about how art can give a voice to the voiceless. This is especially pertinent with mental health declines during lockdown.  She says that we have been socially distanced for a long time but the pandemic created a physical distance, as opposed to distancing yourself from things that don't affect you, which is how we’ve been socially distanced in the past.  She recommended that those with platforms to speak used them to advocate for the voiceless.  

She then went on to identifying trends in the community.  This again links to the previous videos that both discussed how art can help build a community.   

Community development organizations now recognize that art and cultural activities can be useful tools toward building a community's identity, meaning, and spirit. The idea that art can build community has been around for a long time.  When looking at art of most of the Western civilization, it was historically seen as something that “served public purposes by expressing social ideals and symbolizing communal identity” (Kelly, 2000).  An example of community building through art can be seen in a town near Philadelphia, USA where one thousand residents contributed to a 260-foot mural on a school wall. This project became a “unifying, energizing force and a great source of pride” (Kelly, 2000). 

Reference:  

The Art Newspaper (2021) Artists on the Frontline - A Panel on Art's Role in Community Healing [YouTube] Available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yc77brIaVnU [accessed 6.06.2022] 

Kelly, D.C. (2000) Arts Build Community, in ShelterForce 1st January 2000 

#chrono

[orpheuslament]

God is an abstraction wrangled into words and stuffed into the cage of pages.

What if we let God run free?

— My Queerness Is a Compass, Phyll Opoku-Gyimah. The Book of Queer Prophets, edited by Ruth Hunt.

#words #phyll opoku-gyimah #the book of queer prophets

[yourdailyqueer]

Phyll Opoku-Gyimah (Lady Phyll)

Gender: Female

Sexuality: Queer

DOB: November 1974  

Ethnicity: Black British

Occupation: Activist, editor, politician

Note: Executive Director of UK Black Pride

#Phyll Opoku-Gyimah #Lady Phyll #black excellence #queer pride #queer representation #female #queer #1974 #black #poc #black britain #activist #politician #editor #plus size

[projectqueer]

#Phyll Opoku-Gyimah #UK black pride #lgbtq #UK #intersectionality #activism #black history #queer history #QWOC #QPOC #black visibility #lgbtq history #lgbtq visibility #lgbtq issues #human rights #resources #reading

[mistressdickens]

Andrea Riseborough and Time’s Up activist Phyll Opoku-Gyimah 71st British Academy Film Awards, Roaming Arrivals, Royal Albert Hall, London, UK – 18 Feb 2018

#baftas 2018 #andrea riseborough #Phyll Opoku-Gyimah

[blackqueernotables]

Phyllis Akua Opoku-Gyimah: cofounder and director of UK Black Pride, Europe's largest LGBTQI+ celebration for people of African, Asian, Middle Eastern, Latin American and Caribbean heritage.

#phyllis akua opoku gyimah #lady phyll #uk black #lgbt #black lgbt #lavandnoir #black queer notables #lgbt women #black lgbt women #black britain #uk black pride #black queer women #lgbt activism #lgbt pride

[queerafricans]

“Tell us about the moment that started your career as an activist.”

“When I was born! Being born Black and growing up in a predominantly white area, you learn how the world views you very quickly. I’ve been an activist since the first day I started challenging how people thought I should act in this world.”

- Lady Phyll: British-Ghanaian activist and cofounder of UK Black Pride

#lady phyll #Phyll Opoku-Gyimah #ghana #magazine

[holland-and-his-harlings]

Pre-Order Links:

Book Depository

Penguin.co.uk

We talk about achieving 'LGBTQ+ equality', but around the world, LGBTQ+ people are still suffering discrimination and extreme violence. How do we solve this urgent problem, allowing queer people everywhere the opportunity to thrive?

In We Can Do Better Than This, 35 voices explore this question. Through deeply moving stories and provocative new arguments on safety and visibility, dating and gender, care and community, they map new global frontiers in the fight for LGBTQ+ rights.

Pabllo Vittar pleads for the end of hate murders, Olly Alexander champions inclusive sex education in schools, and Beth Ditto calls for a revolution in representation. Elsewhere, Mykki Blanco sets out a vision to end HIV stigma, Owen Jones demands improved LGBTQ+ mental health services, and Travis Alabanza imagines a world without gender policing.

Moving from the UK and USA to Russia, Bangladesh and beyond, this is a guide to understanding the crucial issues facing LGBTQ+ people today. But it's also a passionate call to action and an important manifesto for how - together - we can start to create a better future.

Edited by journalist and author Amelia Abraham, with writing from:

Peppermint - Wolfgang Tillmans - Olly Alexander - Jonathan Anderson - Pabllo Vittar - Naoise Dolan - Amrou Al-Kadhi - Shura - Beth Ditto - Owen Jones - Riyadh Khalaf - Tom Rasmussen - Mykki Blanco - Phyll Opoku-Gyimah - Travis Alabanza - Yasmin Benoit - Mazharul Islam - Kate Bornstein - Adam Eli - Shon Faye - Fox Fisher - Hanne Gaby Odiele - Sasha Kazantseva - Andrew Gurza - Holland - Levi Hord - Juliet Jacques - Leticia Opio - madison moore - Matthew Riemer (@LGBT_History) - Vincent Desmond - Juno Roche - Bobbi Salvör Menuez - Carl Siciliano

#holland #holland kpop #kpop #info #go taeseob

[coochiequeens]

We believe that sexist attitudes and contempt for women run through the fabric of society, and we are angered and upset by the fact that every three days a woman is killed by a manin the UK. Women are raped, beaten and murdered by our own partners, husbands, brothers and fathers, as well as by complete strangers. The domestic abuse services we need are being defunded and shut, and the selling of social housing stock means women at risk of violence in the home have no safe alternative long-term accommodation for themselves and their children. Rape is effectively being decriminalised in this country and this is as unacceptable as it is disturbing.

The Metropolitan police use heavy-handed tactics to silence people, as was clearly demonstrated during the Clapham Common vigil on 13 March. We are appalled by the behaviour of the Metropolitan police. As opponents of violence against women, we have a human right to gather to show solidarity and support to one another. It is clear to us that the police cannot be allowed to have absolute power over the right to freedom of association, and we are calling for united opposition to the policing bill because we believe that this will have a detrimental impact on our human rights and civil liberties as women.

Our demands are as follows: investment in domestic abuse services, rape crisis support, the NHS and other vital care and support services for women; investment in social housing for women and children at risk of domestic abuse; and an immediate and urgent inquiry to the unacceptably low conviction rates for rape and the systematic failure of the criminal justice system to provide justice for women.

With regard to policing in the UK, we demand that a full apology is issued by the Metropolitan police for the events on Clapham Common; a full external inquiry is opened into the attitudes and behaviour of the police force towards women; and that the policing bill is dropped and our right to protest is upheld. Julie Hesmondhalgh Actor, Maxine Peake Actor, Juliet Stevenson Actor, Dr Mary Bousted Joint general secretary, NEU, Diane Abbott MP, Bell Ribeiro-Addy MP, Zarah Sultana MP, Paula Barker MP, Helena Kennedy QC Labour, House of Lords, Ramona McCartney Women Will Not Be Silenced, Amelia Womack Deputy leader, Green party, Sara Pascoe Comedian, Professor Wendy Savage, Professor Gargi Bhattacharyya, Dr Feyzi Ismail Academic and campaigner, Phyll Opoku-Gyimah Executive director, UK Black Pride, Francesca Martinez Comedian and author, Pritee Varsani Musician, Fran Heathcote President, Public and Commercial Services Union, Jen Brister Comedian, Jennette Arnold Labour London assembly member, Lindsey German Author, Rehana Azam National secretary, GMB Union, Laura Pidcock National secretary, People’s Assembly, Laura Alvarez Campaigner, Ellen Clifford Disabled People Against Cuts, Laura Smith Labour councillor, Karen Reissman National Executive Unison member (PC), Mira Salat Director, Mira Performing Arts, Grace Blakely Economist and author, Amy Jackson Head of politics, Unite the Union, Hilary Wainwright Editor, Red Pepper Magazine,Katie Barlow Filmmaker, Katherine Connelly Historian and biographer of Sylvia Pankhurst, Kiri Tunks Women’s rights activist, Lynn HendersonNational officer, PCS Scotland, Jess Edwards National executive member, NEU, Poonam Ball Marketing director and creative chef, Madhu, Emma Mort National executive member, NEU, Louise Regan National officer, NEU, Karen Ingala Smith CEO, nia

Sign your name here: https://www.womenwillnotbesilenced.co.uk/

#UK #women’s rights #women’s safety #Police violence

[that-bookworm-guy]

The Book of Queer Prophets: 24 Writers on Sexuality and Religion - Curated by Ruth Hunt Rating: ★★★★★    Pages: 240   Read: 30th June 2020

Is it possible to believe in God and be gay? How does it feel to be excluded from a religious community because of your sexuality? Why do some people still believe being LGBT is a sin? The book of Queer Prophets contains modern-day epistles from some of our most important thinkers, writers and activists: Jeanette Winterson tackles religious dogma, Amrou Al-Kadhi writes about trying to make it as a Muslim drag queen in London, John Bell writes about his decision to come out later in life, Tamsin Omond remembers getting married in the middle of a protest and Kate Bottley explains her journey to becoming an LGBT ally. Essays from: Jeanette Winterson, Phyll Opoku-Gyimah, Amrou Al-Kadhi, Padraig O Tuama, Garrard Conley, Juno Dawson, Rev. Winnie Varghese, Keith Jarrett, Jay Hulme, Lucy Knight, Tamsin Omond, Erin Clark, Michael Segalov, Jarel Robinson-Brown, John L. Bell, Mpho Tutu van Furth, Karl Rutlidge, Garry Rutter, Rev Rachel Mann, Jack Guiness, Dustin Lance Black, Ric Stott. Afterword: Kate Bottley

This book is beautifully written and honestly makes you think. 

The honest truths and feelings that people have had when questioning part of their identity is heartbreaking and something I feel like many people can relate to. This book doesn’t focus around just Christianity and I’m really glad it gets the view of different people across the LGBT+ community. 

I’m not religious nor do I live in a religious household, none of my family are religious so I will never experience the things the people in this book have, and it really opened my eyes to the issues that they face. I knew that it wasn’t easy for religious LGBT+ people, but this really helped to open my eyes and mind to the experiences. 

I feel like this is a book that people should really read and experience for themself, religious or not. 

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[profeminist]

“The NYC Pride March announced its 2019 grand marshals, and among them are the iconic ladies of Pose: Mj Rodriguez, Indya Moore, and Dominique Jackson. If you’ve wanted to celebrate 50 years of LGBTQ+ history since Stonewall, World Pride, and New York City Pride in good company, this is your year.

The march will feature four others as grand marshals, such as community builder and organizer Phyll Opoku-Gyimah, referred to by NYC Pride as the “nucleus” of UK Black Pride, and activist and author Monica Helms, the creator of the transgender pride flag. The Trevor Project and the Gay Liberation Front, billed by NYC Pride as the first post-Stonewall LGBTQ+ activist organization, will also lead as grand marshals.

he NYC Pride March begins at noon Sunday, June 30 at 26th Street and 5th Ave, according to the march’s website.”

Read the full piece here

‘Pose’ renewed for 3rd season; S2 premiere posts series high ratings

#pose #nyc pride #nycpride #Mj Rodriguez #Indya Moore #Dominique Jackson #pose season 3 #pose season 2 #lgbt pride #lgbtq pride