Oh hello we wanted to take a minute to introduce you to a new podcast we are loving at the moment here on like-minded friends.

Now at this time I think that we need community and connection more than ever.

Words and stories that bind us, not divide us. and manifesto speeches, speeches, stories and poems from some of the country's biggest activists,

artists and personalities, contemplating what it means to be human.

Yes, and season 2 has just launched with 30 podcasts over 30 days in daily mini episodes

only very short from exclusively LGBT QI plus contributors including Lottie Jeffs, Raven Smith,

Shara Lisei and Ben Hunt.

Now we are both really enjoying this and we think that you might too.

So search anthems wherever you get your podcasts. This is Lottie Jeffs.

This is Anthem's.

Hello, my name is Lottie Jeffs. I'm the author of How to be a Gentlewoman, the art of soft power in hard times.

And I'm a journalist writing features and interviews for the UK press.

I used to be the deputy editor of L magazine and I currently work for the creative agency Portis.

I'm also working on my first novel.

Your word of the day is wild. What was that gift we gave each other when our eyes met? The possibility of sex, yes, but something else. Validation. To desire and be desired in return. To say she when it was a story to say she when it was a story to say her hot breath on my neck her hands her house

maybe we'd slam into the ladies together, ladies together.

Ladies, not quite.

Or we'd come up out of the club for air, finding some doorway in Soho Square,

hey, mum, staying at a friend's back in the morning, kiss.

I'd feel the night inside me then, reckless moonlight,

thrilling pinpricks of stars.

I was 18 and had just started a foundation course at Campbell World College of Art.

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