Rhaid newid popeth medd hoywon a lesbiaid!
How can you describe your desires and sense of yourself when they don’t seem to fit with the language you use?
In this episode Adam travels to South Wales to meet Dafydd Frayling, a pioneering activist who disrupted arts festivals and radio broadcasts in the 80s to show how Welsh speakers needed new words so they could make queer people feel more included. He also meets young queer writers today, Leo Drayton and Nia Morais, who are making work about their identities and using Welsh in exciting and queer ways. And there’s a special contribution from the composer of the music for The Quilt, Rhiannon Takel.
When the words don’t work, we can bend them and invent new ones — and the history of how this has been done with queer Welsh is fascinating.
For this episode we’d like to thank Sara Huws, Daniel Bowen, Seiriol Davies, Mark Etheridge at Museum Wales, the team at the Sherman Theatre, and Glitter Cymru.
The Quilt is an Aunt Nell Production, in partnership with Queer Britain, the UK's first and only LGBTQ+ museum, and funded by Mindsets and Missions.
It is hosted and produced by Tash Walker and Adam Zmith.
Music by Rhiannon Takel.
The assistant producer was Marnie Woodmeade.
The associate producers for Queer Britain were Sue Shave, Siân Williams and Katharine Dick.
Mixed and mastered by David Pye.
Mindsets + Missions is funded by UK Research and Innovation in partnership with the Arts and Humanities Research Council and delivered by the Museums Association in partnership with The Liminal Space and the Association for Science and Discovery Centres.
Queer Britain museum is located at Granary Square, Kings Cross in London. It is free to visit and is open from Wednesday to Sunday, 12-6pm.
If you’d like to talk to anyone about any issues raised in this podcast, you can always contact Switchboard - the LGBTQIA+ helpline on switchboard.lgbt or 0800 0119 100.