UK Black Pride’s Lady Phyll on what to expect from 2021 event
"It's a setup like this," said UK Black Pride co-founder, speaking backstage at 2021's digital-focused National Student Pride
Words: Jamie Tabberer; picture: Lady Phyll at National Student Pride 2021 (photographed by Aaron Hargreaves)
Lady Phyll has offered an update on the rollout of this year’s UK Black Pride, of which she is co-founder and executive director.
Europe’s largest celebration for LGBTQI+ people of African, Asian, Caribbean, Latin American, and Middle Eastern descent usually takes place as a physical event in London each summer.
However, asked backstage at National Student Pride if the 16th UK Black Pride is once again likely to be purely digital owing to the pandemic, Lady Phyll replied: “It is. We may have some people being able to be in that space. It’s a setup like this [Student Pride].”
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This week’s Student Pride has been filmed on a limited set in a Covid-secure environment in London’s Heaven nightclub. Lady Phyll will be chairing Student Pride’s ‘Black Lives Matter: Panel Discussion’, broadcasting at 7pm tonight (22 April 2021) here.
After last year’s UK Black Pride events were confined to one day, this year’s will take place across three: from Friday, 2 July to Sunday, 4 July.
“You’re going to see people talk about how love plays out in our communities”
“It is about how we show ‘Love and Rage’ – our theme for this year,” Lady Phyll told us.
“You’re going to see people talk about how love plays out in our communities, especially whilst we’ve had this lockdown and global pandemic. But you are also going to hear people talk about the rage, the upset, the hurt, and the pain we felt. And doing all this unapologetically, with no judgment, and for no one to tell them what they’re feeling is not valid.”
Asked what to expect from her Student Pride discussion, Lady Phyll said: “It’s about the future of our movement. You can expect to hear about Black queer joy, the trans, POC, and Black communities, Black Lives Matter, and how we come up, show up and show out with each other, and more importantly, how we build movements together.
“You will hear realness, intersectionality, intergenerational conversations and so much more.”
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