136: Cancel Culture
Homo Sapiens
Christopher Sweeney
4.7 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 29 July 2021
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
Cancel Culture! What does it mean for LGBTQ+ people? What really is it? Every day there seems to be a new conversation about someone being ‘cancelled’, so we’re deep-diving in to what it means to you listeners, and the response has been massive. Plus, I’ll be chatting to former BBC Radio 1 Xtra host & author of ‘Outraged’ - Ashley 'Dotty' Charles who’s article about the ‘cancellation’ of H&M went viral partly thanks to the headline 'As a black, gay woman I have to be selective in my outrage. So should you’. It’s a fascinating chat. Chris x
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| 0:00.0 | I'll be your host today, my name is Christopher Sweeney. I come to you riding high. The LGBTQ |
| 0:23.3 | plus community has had a rather brilliant bit of news. Our very own Tom Daly has won gold at the |
| 0:30.1 | Olympics. Huge congratulations to Tom and his husband Dustin Nance Black who for fact fans among |
| 0:37.3 | you out there wrote the seminal gay film milk about Harvey Milk in San Francisco. I bet they're all |
| 0:44.5 | celebrating still in the old Olympic village or whatever it's called. So proud of him. What |
| 0:52.0 | incredible hard work he has done over the course of his life to get there. I mean I struggle |
| 0:59.6 | running around the village. Now then let me remind you what is homo sapiens extra, homo sapiens extra? |
| 1:06.2 | It's where we read your emails and where we read your feedback. It's where we get into wonderful |
| 1:10.8 | things like a topic of the week. What is topic of the week? Well it's where we talk about a topic |
| 1:16.2 | that is pertinent to the LGBTQ plus community. This week we're talking about cancel culture. |
| 1:22.0 | It's a term that gets thrown around a lot and what does it mean? Is it useful? How is it evolving? |
| 1:28.0 | And what are the specifics for LGBTQ plus people? And it's a really interesting listeners. We've |
| 1:33.7 | had loads of messages. It's really gotten under your skin this topic. So I'm looking forward to chatting |
| 1:37.7 | about it. And there's a door banging which I'm just going to go and stop because it's going to |
| 1:41.3 | bang for the entire time. Because in case you haven't noticed listeners, some has gone, |
| 1:45.0 | whether it's gone rubbish hasn't it? So now there's wind everywhere. Wind and rain. |
| 1:55.8 | I don't think there's many things more painful than a door consistently banging because of the wind. |
| 2:03.4 | That and you know when a scooter drives but a moped or a motorbike drives past you're |
| 2:08.0 | allowedly. That the people who do that deserve a very special place in how maybe they should be |
| 2:14.7 | cancelled. No because maybe it's not about cancelling. Maybe it's about meeting with love. |
| 2:22.4 | Well we've got opinions from all sides of the fence but we'll come to that. We're going to be |
| 2:26.2 | getting an expert in the house for our discussion on cancel culture. We're going to be talking to |
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