We revisit a podcast series produced by collective Feminist Internet for our Deep Listen feature this week, with an episode focusing on the importance of queer spaces in London.
Feminist Internet is a group of artists and designers working to advance internet equalities for women and other marginalised groups through critical practice. Last year we worked with Feminist Internet to produce a four-part podcast series, which saw the group explore the theme of 'recoding spaces', both online and offline, with the aim of diversifying internet spaces metaphorically, physically and digitally, intercepting homogenous zones and breaking the filter bubble. The podcasts aimed to not only expose these spaces, but to regenerate them in new and inclusive ways.
For this week’s Deep Listen, we share Feminist Internet’s Recoding Utopias, one of four episodes from their podcast series, in which they explore what it means to be queer and the act of queering itself. With contributions from Amy Lamé, Lucas LaRochelle, Nadine Artois of Pxssy Palace, Jim MacSweeney, Ingo Cando, Feminist Internet members Clara Finnigan and Conor Rigby speak to creatives and activists who are finding new ways of transforming and performing in queer spaces, and why these spaces are so vital to London and its future; a city that since 2006 has lost more than half of its LGBTQIA+ spaces.
The Feminist Internet podcast was commissioned and produced by Somerset House Studios with the support of the UAL Creative Computing Institute.
