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Gatekeeper

Axel Kacouti茅 discovers a new sense of self in the cosmologies, concepts and realities of queer and indigenous folks.

鈥淪omewhere between the narrow entry of Who I am and What I seem to be, lies a vast and nameless place.鈥

In this transmission, Axel Kacouti茅 discovers a new sense of self in the cosmologies, concepts and realities of queer and indigenous folks. What are the links between gender expression and our relationship with the Earth? How does it destabilise colonial and capitalist imaginations of what we鈥檙e told a gender binary is meant to be?

Featuring the voices of:
Opaskwayak Cree Nation Professor at the University of Saskatchewan, Dr Alex Wilson
Artist Buitumelo Kotekwa
Afro-Taino Two-Spirit change-maker Cleopatra Tatabele
Scholar and Research Assistant, Karyn De Freitas
Transmasculine, non-binary scholar and Founder of the Free Black University, Melz Owusu.

Development Producer: Eleanor McDowall
Assistant Producer: CA Davis
Additional Recording: Heidi Chang and Israel Ramjohn
Sound Design, Music and Mixing Production: Axel Kacouti茅
Produced by Axel Kacouti茅
A Falling Tree production for 大象传媒 Radio 4

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Fri 31 May 2024 23:30

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  • Mon 9 Jan 2023 23:00
  • Fri 31 May 2024 23:30

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