Bed Talks #1 & #2
Ideas worth lying down for! Playing on the popularity of both TED Talks and our society’s obsession with the newest “hot take”, the BED TALKS series allows artists, activists and academics to spotlight their practice, opinions and experiences in an evening of live streamed talks and curated conversations. Sharing skills, knowledge and pearls of wisdom from one bed to another.
In 2020 Girl Gang presented two online programmes of speakers to tackle a subject or viewpoint of their choice in 10-20 minutes. Each talk included a question and answer session and recommended resources from the speaker at the end.
Bed Talks #1
Bed Talks #1 covered drag, DIY, marginalised and geographical communities, gender identity, sexuality, policy, ableism, self & community care, history, hero’s & housing, radical women & reconciling difficult truths & juxtaposing ideologies.
Nancy AKA Camp Dad: Life's a Drag! From Cross-dressing to Transfiguration
Helen Antrobus: Do Not Workship False Idols
Suriya Aish: Self Care.. And other lies we tell ourselves..
Beth Redmond: This Must Be The Place..
Bed Talks #2
Bed Talks #2 Covered police brutality & what’s being done here in the UK, the removal and defacement of statues across the country, the first woman elected to parliament & why she refused her seat and the safety of sex workers here in Manchester.
Speakers:
Afshan D’souza: Lodhi from Northern Police Monitoring Project: Policing the Police in the UK
Janelle Hardacre and Collette Cronshaw from MASH (Manchester Action on Street Health): Keeping Sex Workers Safe – MASH: The Most Impactful Charity You’ve Never Heard Of
Aileen Quinn: “Tearing Down the Past?” Why colonisers must be taken off their pedestals
Hollyzone History: Fantasy dinner party – Would Constance Markievicz even want to have dinner with me?