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TW: In this episode we pay tribute to Brianna Ghey, this may be triggering for our trans sisters and brothers. Please listen when you feel you can and we are here for you. Some signposting website supports at the bottom.
Welcome back to Series 3!!!! Thank you so much for coming back you are so loved!!
This week’s episode features the wonderful Mariah Louca. Mariah is a Sheffield based actor, writer and artist who I was so privileged to work with on Jonathan Larkin’s fabulous play Cherry Jezebel at the Liverpool Everyman last year.
Mariah talks about the necessity to balance your health and wellbeing in the performance industry and how some health worries, particularly this year, has brought that home more than ever before.
As a proud trans woman Mariah talks so generously about growing up in a hetero-normative world and not in the queer community, her experience as a queer woman was very different. She talks about navigating her life with a sense of privacy and privilege and the moments that profoundly changed that.
In one such moment, Mariah very bravely and emotionally opens up about the effects of the horrific murder of our sister Brianna Ghey and the shocks throughout the LGBTQ+ community.
Mariah is a beautiful woman and some of what she chose to talk about is deeply personal and we are privileged that she opens up to us. We are forever indebted to her and others like her.
Here at Wellbeing with Manny in conversation with….we will do all we can to be an ally. If we can do anything better, let us know.
We see you and we love you.
Thank you Mariah!
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