Phil is the strategic lead for #PrEP4QueerMenOfColour at PrEPster, an organisation that educates and agitates for PrEP in England and beyond. He is a social activist, a writer and a researcher with a focus on the health inequalities of people of colour. His work primarily focuses on improving the sexual health of queer men of colour, he strives for equality within the intersection of race and sexuality and provides an honest representation of black queer men.

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Makinder is the Senior Health Promotion Worker at Trade Sexual Health, a sexual health and HIV charity working with under-represented communities across Leicester, Leicestershire & Rutland. He has been working in the Voluntary and Community Sector for 9 years with an expertise in sexual health promotion, HIV prevention and supporting targeted campaigns and services to LGBTQ+ communities of intersectional identities.

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Ryszard (Ricky) is one of the HIV prevention and testing coordinators @Positiveeast 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇱❤ with years of experienc of working with homeless people and in NHS.

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Tas is a consultant in HIV and sexual health in West London. She is passionate about creating equitable access to sexual healthcare services and HIV care to underserved populations. She is a trustee of Sophia Forum. Her current projects include a funded project to improve access to HIV testing and to sexual health services for the South Asian community in West London. She is also part of the team that created the first Black and minority ethnic special interest group within the British Association of Sexual Health and HIV (the UK’s leading professional organisation dealing with all things sexual health and HIV related).

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Jilna is a community movement and meditation teacher and is about to qualify as a Craniosacral therapist. Her practice has evolved from her experiences and explorations of the relationship between inner change and healing and radical social change. She has been part of social justice movements in the UK and in India. A lot of her political consciousness has been shaped by learning from the struggles and resistance of Dalit and Adivasi communities in India. A lot of her learning also stems from Abolition and Disability Justice folks.
Jilna facilitates movement and meditation in community settings to create spaces for community connection and collective care- for example, with refugee youth, queer and trans folk, migrant women and for elders. She is interested with how we can relate to the body-heart-mind in a way that cultivates deep listening to our own embodied knowing.

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Vaneet is an Indian Bisexual man born and raised in Southall, West London. His day job is working as a Software Engineer, but outside of this he writes on various topics, including LGBTQ+, and volunteers within the community. He recently had his coming out story published in “The Bi-Ble Vol 2”, featured in GMFA’s Me.Him.Us campaign and is helping produce a documentary on QPOCs with Rainbow Films.

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Reluctant activist on most things trans, brown and hairy. Sabah co-founded Trans Pride Brighton in 2013 and made The Rainbow List in 2015, celebrating 101 of the most influential LGBT people in Britain. Sabah has published ‘Inclusivity: Supporting BAME Trans People,’ and has built a presence across UK and Europe, speaking at TEDx Brixton 2015, ILGA Europe 2016, IDAHOT Brussels 2017, Malmö Pride 2017/18/20 about intersectionality, identity and inclusion. Proud trans youth worker since 2014 and Head of Youth Service at Gendered Intelligence since 2020, trustee for Inclusive Mosque Initiative, co-founder of Colours Youth Network supporting LGBT+ BPOC young people in UK and psychotherapist in training. Top three passions right now: fostering cats, smelling essential oils and talking to houseplants. Their latest publication 'Supporting Trans People of Colour: How To Make Your Practice Inclusive' with Jessica Kingsley Publishers is available for pre-order now or via www.sabahchoudrey.com/link

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Dance music pioneer & trailblazing former BBC broadcaster, DJ Ritu, presents the UK’s definitive independent global music show, A World in London – weekly on Resonance 104.4FM and Mixcloud. Her 35-year career includes co-founding cult label Outcaste Records, signing Nitin Sawhney and Badmarsh & Shri, touring in over 30 countries with her own bands Sister India and The Asian Equation, plus performing at major venues and festivals like Tate Britain, the BFI, Spiritland, WOMAD, Royal Festival Hall, Fabric & Trafalgar Square. She was a key catalyst shaping the 90s Asian Underground scene and created international openings for British Asian musicians & sounds, culminating in a unique heritage archive which she has documented. A Rough Guides CD compiler, Ritu is also the co-founder and CEO of the UK’s longest-running Bollywood club nights - Kuch Kuch (21 yrs) and Club Kali (26 yrs). A musical chameleon, her repertoire includes soul, disco, Motown, pop, drum n’ bass, as well as Turkish, Greek, African, Latin, and Middle-Eastern sounds. Ritu hosts various festivals at The Southbank Centre, Rich Mix, and numerous nightspots! She is a member of the London Music Board, and the European World Music Charts panel.

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Aditya (Adi) is a poet and uses the spiritual power of words in his mother tongue Hindi (with some Urdu) to express his journey of self identity and mental health. He grew up in Delhi, lived in Malaysia before moving to London 12 years ago. He has found his ground, community and partner here. He works as a Senior Client Director in a market research agency. Through his poetry and his love for the language, he js re-establishing his connection with his roots.

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Raheem B. Payne-Mir has been training in Kathak for a number of years now and has taken it beyond the traditional realms. After completing his double masters from Royal Holloway University of London, Raheem decided to take his training in Kathak and combine it with the training he received in Contemporary Performance, he now practices both and combines gender theory, in an explorative of gender within performance and representation through the performer. He hopes to explore this topic with reference to performers and the gender representation through form in his PhD this upcoming academic year. He has performed in many prestigious locations, has been commissioned by Akādemi to perform at the Southbank Centre, and choreographed for Netflix.

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