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Travis Alabanza stars on the Bristol24/7 Queer Catch-Up By Bristol24/7, Friday Apr 23, 2021 The sixth episode of the Queer Catch-Up, now live, is a little bit different. Co-hosts Kit Million Ross and Lowie Trevena discuss the Gender Recognition Act (GRA) in depth and chat to performer and theatremaker Travis Alabanza. Ordinarily, the pair discuss several LGBTQ+ stories that have been published on Bristol24/7 recently. For this fortnight’s episode however, they start the episode by chatting about the GRA. Independent journalism is needed now more than ever. A piece of legislation allowing t...

Celebrate International Women’s Day with Open Collab By Safiya Bashir, Monday Mar 8, 2021 Bedminster based jazz musicians Charlie + Jake will be hosting their next Open Collab event focusing on International Women’s Day. Inviting you virtually into their cosy home studio, you can join hundreds of people all over the world and listen to music and poetry from Canada, America, Mexico and Australia as well as a strong presence from the thriving spoken word scene in Bristol. The show, which will be raising money for Womankind – Bristol Women’s Therapy Centre, promises to be uplifting...

Free speech is often used to create division and seed hate. The audience for Enoch Powell on that day was small in number. But through the strength of his rhetoric and the power of the media, his message was shared widely. Today the means of delivering a message extends beyond the soapbox, loudhailer and the friendly right-wing press; social media allows an instantaneous reach to millions. Trump’s twitter was avidly followed by the “make America great again” crowd, who would unfailingly respond with the modern equivalence of applause: the like, reply and retweet. Donald Trump’s accoun...