Q List

Q List Robert Taylor

 
Robert Taylor Photographer 
Robert came to photography in the mid 80s via the British Royal Air Force, the English Bar, and publishing adventures in Nigeria. His work, exhibited and published widely, is held in several permanent collections including the National Portrait Gallery, the Victoria & Albert Museum, the Royal Society, and several Oxbridge colleges. His practice has always been divided between two disparate realms: portrait collections commissioned by major academic and scientific institutions, while his more personal work is mostly in exploration and celebration of identity, beauty, and the joys of aesthetics.
His early work included many contributions to LGBT+ human rights campaigns, and HIV prevention projects, in collaboration with key LGBT rights organisations, and a major safer sex education book with the human rights campaigner Peter Tatchell. For the last 15 years he’s specialised in commissioned collections of portraits of women of outstanding achievement in academe and STEM. 
His return to full time living in London has been marked by a renewed engagement with projects exploring LGBT+ and Black Queer experiences through art-based projects. ( Permissible Beauty 2023:  https://permissiblebeauty.le.ac.uk/)
Other active interests include rehabilitation through the arts in UK prisons via (Koestler Arts), jewellery (making and wearing), and collecting art.

Q list conversation with Makanaka

Makanaka Tuwe is a Researcher, Storyteller and Cultural Producer who specialises in developing platforms, initiatives, responses and campaigns geared at social transformation. She is the Founder and Facilitator of Sesa Mathlo Apothecary, a space where you'll find initiatives that are co-created and designed to be healing balms that address the collective trauma caused by inequities. She is also the Founder of Afrodaze, a platform dedicated to spreading the potency of African and African diaspora sounds through events and collaborations with artists and music professionals. Part of Afrodaze's mission is to contribute to equitable futures for music creators and professionals of African descent in Aotearoa, New Zealand. 
 

Q List with Rhona Stace

Welcome to 2023 Q list this conversation is with Rhona stace
We talk about Rhona, films, Artist and media 
 Rhona Stace
a veteran police officer, a parent, a poet, and an active member of her local Anglican congregation, Rhona says she lives semi-rurally with two cats, a goat, and a chicken and just happens to also be transgender

Q list with Sidney Wong

A conversation with Sidney
Sidney Gig-Jan Wong 黃吉贊 (he/any) was born in Te Awa Kairangi ki Tai. His ancestral villages are in Szeyap, Dunggun, and Fatsaan. Sidney has familial links to Hong Kong and Macau. He now lives in Ōtautahi with his partner. In the community, Sidney advocates for and supports LGBTQIA+ communities across Aotearoa through his role as chair of the Ethnic Rainbow Alliance and Qtopia. He is also part of the governance boards for the Christchurch Heroes, Bad Apple Gay, and the Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Health Advisory Group (CHAG) at Pegasus Health.  Sidney has a broad range of professional interests with an academic background in linguistics and data science. He is a community advocate and researcher. Sidney is currently working towards a PhD in Linguistics with funding from the Geospatial Research Institute at the University of Canterbury. He previously worked at Stats NZ as a Senior Design Analyst – Te Ara Takatū working alongside hapū, iwi, and Māori across Aotearoa to support their data needs and aspirations

Q list with Kara Beckford

The Q-List
An exploration of Queer intersectionality
 
Each week during PRIDE 2022 we explore intersectionality through the experiences and stories of the people we profile. 
Kara Areta Alice Beckford
Ngāti Whakaue, Jamaican-Maroons
she/her/they/them/ia
A Black (afro-Caribbean) Māori (Ngāti Whakaue) takatāpui Queer moko, daughter, sister, friend and partner. Kara is a mental health and LGBTQI+ advocate, poet and over-thinker  who is writing her PhD thesis on the capacities of BIPOC communities in Aotearoa to be well and live full radical lives. She is persistent in the pursuit of healing, love and wellness as social justice for the communities that she belongs to, including herself. Some of her favourite things are being on her marae, watching b-grade films, kittens, babies, deep and meaningful conversations with strangers and playing her new 1950’s  fire red Fender Squire electric guitar! Some of her favourite people, past and present, are her mum, siblings, grandparents and hot Bajan fiancé.

Q list with Chinwe Akomah

The Q-List
An exploration of Queer intersectionality
Each week during PRIDE 2022 we explore intersectionality through the experiences and stories of the people we profile. 
Songs
Lauryn Hill’s entire Miseducation album is quite phenomenal. It gives me power and hope while also making my want to cry. 
https://open.spotify.com/album/1BZoqf8Zje5nGdwZhOjAtD : Album
 
 - I will clear a dance floor with ‘Doo Wop’ 
Lauryn Hill - Doo-Wop (That Thing) (Official Video)
- I will cry listening to ‘Tell Him’
Lauryn Hill - Tell Him (Audio)
- I go into a trance listening to ‘Nothing Even Matters’
Lauryn Hill - Nothing Even Matters feat. D'Angelo
I grew up on indie and rock in my teenage rebellion years.  My favourite Indie rock song is by Biffy Clyro- their first album Blackened Sky- specifically the song  ‘questions and answers’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M3XM0WtW7Uo
 
- Stormzy’s ‘cigarettes and cush’, ‘shut up’  and the diss track he did about Wiley are fire.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jLXQHThL3FU
I’m not much of a reader but 
Chimamanda Ngozi Adiche’s ‘Half of a yellow sun”’ 
https://www.bookdepository.com/Half-of-a-Yellow-Sun-Chimamanda-Ngozi-Adichie/9780007506071?redirected=true&utm_medium=Google&utm_campaign=Base1&utm_source=NZ&utm_content=Half-of-a-Yellow-Sun&selectCurrency=NZD&w=AF7CAU998CSBM7A8V3XD&gclid=Cj0KCQiA6NOPBhCPARIsAHAy2zBOBhPbZPTiJNEJ0vZCOxi4EJ__Xov9cR40zQCt_rdlhwrLTf0qeRMaAhBFEALw_wcB
We should all be feminists | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | TEDxEuston
 
‘Purple Hibiscus’, Chinua Achebe’s 
https://www.amazon.com/Purple-Hibiscus-Chimamanda-Ngozi-Adichie/dp/1616202416
‘Things Fall Apart’ Akala’s ‘Natives’
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36352480-natives
 
 educated me on all things race and colonization in the UK and Nigeria. They are also major influences in my life, like have changed my narrative and heightened my understanding of identity politics.half of yellow sun
 
Films that influenced me -
 ‘Disclosure’ 
https://www.netflix.com/nz/title/81284247
 
 ‘Paris is Burning’ 
PARIS IS BURNING Trailer
really made me think about the race and queer intersection.

Q list with Rafiqah Sulaiman

Same Same but Black is proud to present at PRIDE 2022
A conversation with Rafiqah 
The Q-List
An exploration of Queer inter-sectionality
Each week during PRIDE 2022 we explore inter-sectionality through the experiences and stories of the people we profile. 
This is an online series giving voice to LGBTQIA and QT- BIPOC and the wider Queer community.
Rafiqah Sulaiman Binti Abdullah is a 30 year old Filipina muslim  transgender woman from Manila. She is a social justice advocate based in Tamaki Makauru tackling racism, xenophobia and raising awareness on achieving mental health well being, LGBTQIA+ rights and social equity. She is eclectic in her music tastes, enjoys a buffet of world cuisine, an appreciator of nature’s diversity,  a makeup lover and passionate for culture and justice. 

Q list with Donald Hollingworth

Same Same but Black is proud to present at PRIDE 2022
The Q-List with Donald Hollingworth 
An exploration of Queer intersectionality
Each week during PRIDE 2022 we explore intersectionality through the experiences and stories of the people we profile. 
This is an online series giving voice to LGBTQIA and QT BIPOC and the wider Queer community.
Donald Hollingsworth  NgatiHine Ngapuhi Takatapui, Gay, Queer. Donald a style makeover king or queen, depending on the day, working in fashion, television and celebrity for the last 35 years. Growing up in a tourist town, Rotorua, Aotearoa, he grew up battling the locals because of his natural effeminacy. In 1987 when Aotearoa introduced a gay and lesbian law reform at aged 16 Donald was there protesting. Lover of Electronica and 80s boy bands and pop art.

Q list Conversation with Vinod Bal

The Q-List
 All links are on www.samesamebutblack.co.nz 
An exploration of Queer inter-sectionality
Each interviewer selection of or either talks on the impact of these items have on their lives
Through music, film, art and books with a conversation , 
Each week during PRIDE 2022 we explore inter-sectionality through the experiences and stories of the people we profile.
Vinod is a 23-year-old Indian man who is passionate about making positive change for our communities. He grew up in Ngaruawahia and completed his primary, secondary and tertiary education in the Waikato region. He is passionate about ensuring our communities get the outcomes they deserve, whether that we greater visibility or better material outcomes. People of Colour, statistically speaking, are the largest LGBTTIA+ group on earth and yet, if one were to look at popular queer culture, you would be hard pressed to see this reality. Vinod is a part of the LGBTTIA +QT BIPOC rights movement because he wants to change this. He has an interest in legal and policy advocacy for queer and trans People of Colour, both here in Aotearoa and overseas, and is looking to work on global law reform so LGBTTIA+ QTBIPOC can have their rights realised.
My three Q List texts are:
Ek Ladki Ko Dekha Toh Aisa Laga, a Hindi film about a lesbian woman who comes out in rural Punjab, in the setting of a play;
Loaded by Christos Tsiolkas, a book about a young Greek gay man who is unfomfortable with his homosexuality and therefore, indulges in substance abuse, casual sex with men who demean his sexuality, etc;
“Beta” by Rakesh Ratti published in Yaraana: Gay Writing from India by Hoshang Merchant, a poem that discusses the challenge between "desire" vs "duty."

Q List -Auckland Pride 2022

Same Same but Black is proud to present at PRIDE 2022
The Q-List
An exploration of Queer intersectionality
Each week during PRIDE 2022 we explore intersectionality through the experiences and stories of the people we profile. 
This is an online series giving voice to LGBTQIA and QT BIPOC and the wider Queer community.