Archive: queer worlds

‘I feel as if my first drafts are almost like codes waiting to be configured into an understandable algorithm.’

‘I believe a queer world has the potential to be a free world, but whilst people are still discriminated against on the basis of gender identity or sexuality we are so far from being free.’ Wasafiri Wonders with Dean Atta.

‘First drafts are a pie where all the components have been cooked most of the way through, but you’ve gotta put it in the oven for it to become worthy of your guests.’ Wasafiri Wonders with KUCHENGA.

‘Ezili’s Mirrors is a song written in a time signature I am not used to, nor do I find it easy to follow. This time signature requires Tinsley’s reader-listeners to be at home in, and to be willingly led, by a temporal discordance that is black, queer and decolonial.’ Reviewed by Imani Robinson