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BLOG | Drag Queen? Am I a gender mongrel?
Since ‘fleeing’ from India in just my ‘knickers’ (if the press is to be believed) I have been termed “drag queen” in national red-top newspapers up and down this fine and liberal land. But hang on! This is gender politics. And it’s being used as an insult. I made the mistake of browsing through the troll…
BLOG | Did my Swingerella sexiness offend you?
Yes, I was chased out of India for my performance at the Women’s Economic Forum. It seems that my Birmingham based theatre show’Swingerella’s Dark Fairytale’ was too spicy a balti for the audience out there with toilet brushes stuck up their clenched asses.
BLOG: Swingerella ups the ante at Delhi women’s forum
Here at the Women’s Economic Forum, they are talking culture. What is it and why is it important? There’s a range of experts and they are clever, sharp and incisive. Questions from the floor? They are beginning to dread the Swingerella hand shooting up faster than a Digbeth junkie at a bus stop.
BLOG: Swingerella takes domestic violence message to Delhi
I love Birmingham! Here in New Delhi at the Women’s Economic Forum, I miss Birmingham. It’s 48 degrees in the shade and I am out of my depth. From walking the streets of Birmingham with PTSD (post-traumatic stress disorder), a pen and paper I am now taking the world by storm with the show I…
BLOG | Desi tales with hip-hop, blasted into 21st century
Today’s featured Midlands artists on the Vimal & Zoe Radio Show, on Ambur Radio, was a double bill of performers from two theatre shows, Tongue Tied and Twisted, and Wonder Woman – The Naked Truth. Tongue Tied and Twisted is a new theatre production by Black Country Touring (BCT). It blasts Indian storytelling into the 21st…
BLOG: Film director Lalit Bhusal deals with FGM
Today’s featured Midlands artists on the Vimal & Zoe Radio Show, on Ambur Radio, was the director Lalit Bhusal and singer Stacey Lynn Crowe, Lalit Bhusal talked about his new project, the film Crushed Wings – which deals with the sensitive subjects of FGM (female genital mutilation) and domestic abuse. He explains how the…