OCA's LGBTQIA+ community space - evening meetup *POSTPONED*
Wed 31 Aug
|Online event
Join Daneka Etchells, writer, actor and equality & inclusion specialist for our evening meet for our LGBTQIA+ community


Time & Location
31 Aug 2022, 19:00 – 20:00
Online event
Guests
About the Event
Daneka (they/them/she) is a writer, actor and Equality and Inclusion consultant, specialising in arts spaces. They are a non-binary, disabled, neurodivergent, bisexual, working class person from Cumbria. Daneka previously chaired the LGBTQIA+ Working Group for the former drama school ALRA, which was a monthly online meet-up space for the queer and genderqueer students to voice concerns, wishes, wants of their studies and university (across foundation, BA and MA studies programmes); and also a space to connect and chat with their LGBTQIA+ peers.
Daneka knows first hand the importance of queer-positive spaces that are inclusive of all LGBTQIA+ identities, that don’t just exist in cramped, dark corners of clubs (although they can be fun too!) and works with positive-but-realistic view of queer equity that is urgent, ever-evolving, consistently-learning and always promoting an intersectional, actively disability positive, low-income/class inclusive and non-Westernised view of gender and sexuality.
This group is for anyone of…