Q list with Chinwe Akomah

The Q-List

An exploration of Queer intersectionality

Each week during PRIDE 2022 we explore intersectionality through the experiences and stories of the people we profile. 

Songs

Lauryn Hill’s entire Miseducation album is quite phenomenal. It gives me power and hope while also making my want to cry. 

https://open.spotify.com/album/1BZoqf8Zje5nGdwZhOjAtD : Album

 

 - I will clear a dance floor with ‘Doo Wop’ 

Lauryn Hill - Doo-Wop (That Thing) (Official Video)

- I will cry listening to ‘Tell Him’

Lauryn Hill - Tell Him (Audio)

- I go into a trance listening to ‘Nothing Even Matters’

Lauryn Hill - Nothing Even Matters feat. D'Angelo

I grew up on indie and rock in my teenage rebellion years.  My favourite Indie rock song is by Biffy Clyro- their first album Blackened Sky- specifically the song  ‘questions and answers’

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M3XM0WtW7Uo

 

- Stormzy’s ‘cigarettes and cush’, ‘shut up’  and the diss track he did about Wiley are fire.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jLXQHThL3FU

I’m not much of a reader but 

Chimamanda Ngozi Adiche’s ‘Half of a yellow sun”’ 

https://www.bookdepository.com/Half-of-a-Yellow-Sun-Chimamanda-Ngozi-Adichie/9780007506071?redirected=true&utm_medium=Google&utm_campaign=Base1&utm_source=NZ&utm_content=Half-of-a-Yellow-Sun&selectCurrency=NZD&w=AF7CAU998CSBM7A8V3XD&gclid=Cj0KCQiA6NOPBhCPARIsAHAy2zBOBhPbZPTiJNEJ0vZCOxi4EJ__Xov9cR40zQCt_rdlhwrLTf0qeRMaAhBFEALw_wcB

We should all be feminists | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | TEDxEuston

 

‘Purple Hibiscus’, Chinua Achebe’s 

https://www.amazon.com/Purple-Hibiscus-Chimamanda-Ngozi-Adichie/dp/1616202416

‘Things Fall Apart’ Akala’s ‘Natives’

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36352480-natives

 

 educated me on all things race and colonization in the UK and Nigeria. They are also major influences in my life, like have changed my narrative and heightened my understanding of identity politics.half of yellow sun

 

Films that influenced me -

 ‘Disclosure’ 

https://www.netflix.com/nz/title/81284247

 

 ‘Paris is Burning’ 

PARIS IS BURNING Trailer

really made me think about the race and queer intersection.