This is a special episode where we get close and personal about our experiences. One of my best friends Gerard Ortiga and I (Marc) discuss many questions around being queer, intersectionality, realising you are trans, etc. We also talk about how lack of queer representation can affect your normal development as a child, we offer an insight into queer ecology and its healing potential, we discuss queer trauma, joy... Dating apps, digital relationships and the artificial phenomenon of "coming out", the "promiscuity" stereotype pushed on gay men, and much more!

Before we give it all away, give this podcast episode a listen!

This "Global Advocates" series of the ChildRightsChat will be all about social justice and children’s rights, with a special highlight on LGBTQ+ rights and the climate crisis. 🏳️‍🌈🌎

With Aotearoa Liberation League: Samah Sege (she/her) and Chris Huriwai (he/him)

Please check out and support their work: www.all.org.nz/

Aotearoa Liberation League defines itself as decolonial justice initiative. They talk to me about intersectional social justice, animal liberation and rights from a decolonial perspective, the decolonise movement in Aotearoa, prison abolition, and much more! Please give this episode a listen and share it!

Their values: - An empowered and well-informed population of kaitiaki committed to the protection of our most vulnerable individuals and their sources of life. - Practice nonviolence in our thoughts and actions towards all living beings - Honour Te Tiriti o Waitangi

Their mission: - Acknowledge the historic and ongoing harms of colonialism - To liberate humans from the industry-driven food myths that compel us to harm our bodies, our whenua, and millions of nonhuman animals. - Uplift and prioritise the voices of marginalised communities

This "Global Advocates" series of the ChildRightsChat will be all about social justice and children’s rights, with a special highlight on LGBTQ+ rights and the climate crisis. 🏳️‍🌈🌎

Please check out their work and support them by giving a one-off or regular donation: www.solidarywheels.org

Mar Soriano Marfà (she/her) is a lawyer from Barcelona. She studied Law and Global Governance and specialised in migration, a field she continues to work in today. She has also contributed her knowledge and great practice in other social justice movements such as homelessness and climate refugee studies. She currently works with Solidary Wheels.

This podcast series of the ChildRightsChat will be all about social justice and children’s rights, with a special highlight on LGBTQ+ rights and the climate crisis. 🏳️‍🌈🌎