LGBTQ+ Spaces with Monisha Jackson

This is Season 4 Episode 1 of MK on the Mic, a podcast dedicated to having conversations relevant to POC communities. I am joined by Monisha Jackson, author of the award winning dissertation ‘“I’m Not your SISTA”: Queer Black Women’s Experiences in LGBTQ+ Night-time Spaces’.

This episode was streamed over 250 times on IGTV

Find time-stamped topics below:

1:14 Monisha’s research areas

2:02 Some background to her award winning research. Exclusion LGBT clubs and coming out

3:46 Exclusion of queer WOC in LGBTQ+ spaces. Door policies, music etc

8:05 How LGBTQ+ spaces are structured like larger society. Hetero- and homonormativity. The replication of heterosexual ideals by the LGBTQ+ community

12.52 Are LGBTQ+ spaces marketed toward heterosexual people?

18:42 The adoption of Black women’s language and mannerisms by gay white men

30:30 The relationship between colonial rule and homophobia

35:10 Looking practices - being stared at, colonialism, power dynamics, human zoos and entitlement to look at Black bodies

39:15 Decolonising the curriculum at The University of Leeds

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A big thank you to Jai and Victoria for lending me their voices for the episode insert.