gets expose, go to lunch with you. find out about all the story. info, migraines, reliable new, so like when, wherever they may be, the queen from their 1st you see the famous friend of asia. is it to the celebrated queen petra, the queen charlotte, i've seen in an experience of bridget to to the one and only queen baby queens. that icon is part of pop culture and an integral part of everyday language. they symbolized ha elegance, an individual policy. the queen, the origin of the term yes queen can be traced about tickets to the gays to queen was ones as loved for gaming. but the l g b t q c. ball room and drag queens,

smashed it back and made it a term of empowerment. hello, kings and queens. don't have to be royal to carry yourselves with pride and grace. the word queen has travelled through history carrying layers of meaning. today. it's more than just a tied to it. for monica, it's a celebration of pi, identity and community. that's exactly what we'll be looking at that literally, but also the symbolic meaning of every sense of the word. my name is 5 to eric. i'm lucy. welcome to the show. coming up on the show. you will be out with, with phyllis girls and sliding across and these are boxed with a grave and got with them to explain to cape town where i dropped out is i'm active with lack of fozzy, to the rights of clear people. and last but definitely not least we turned in nigeria. wow. queen shut off. he was on the excuse. we've talked amazing. ready

to meet the queens of the streets of these above us. well and good about fellows, girls in high boucher came is, is really fine. and what it means to be as cater in ethiopia, led by. so it's an i tell a lot, but e, c o, p, and goes kiddos are causing their plays in a male dominated sport. it's more than just catering for the girls. this is about breaking knowns. building community, i'm showing the wall that both mass and grace can roll side by side. they're stylish, they're daring big chick slip back to then you can kick up the rest in the traditional how bishop can these, these ethiopians data girls are on a mission bigger than taking over the nearest top pipe. they are redefining skating in just a by says we're how the show we have a lot of cultures, norms and everything. like it's not that much inviting regarding to this kind of

research to support 26 year old. so seen a child has been skating for 9 years. and remember the time when she was the only girl tearing up the street boxes in my cousins like we use this, marcia of water bosses and i'm trying to sand on it. and then like we push each other and then we still do that. so i like that. do i saw a skateboard like that? the boys were like security and was fine. so in search of a cruise so. so, you know, found due to the ethiopian girl skate as in 2019. that was the easy part. but convincing other girls to join it was hard to then mustering a 360 flip. when i asked the girls, like whenever i asked them, you want to try this or blah, blah, there's kind of willie. but whenever the boys are like trying to approach them with the keyboard, they kind of not ok. sounds like maybe if i start teaching one of the girls, they be so happy. so whenever i go there, like i give them ice cube with

a nice start, bringing additional state boards, which means gradually a small group of intrigues like minded girls are riley to run. so see, you know, and they started meeting up once a week these days on most weekends they can be found at, escaped clock in just a by girls and young women are encouraged to join. i get them on a social media. sometimes i watch them there. and i was interesting to to escape one day i so voice kidding around and i want to join them and ask them about skating. and they told me there is a session for girls to lease on saturday with more than 20 active members and 56000 follow was on instagram ethiopians girls skate as on. not just a crew with their friends such as they and take on skates. quoting may be different from the grungy male dominated california based origins of the sport for the

ethiopian girl skate does have something special, and it's there. while the international media attention has also raised to their profile, so gauging seems to keep the girls from the ground. it except of course, when they're catching some air on a off by to learn. kidding, you have to send so many times said you have to not give up on skating. so it's pardon me patients. he can see this 1st, a seen, a skating has become a road to building a community and creating shots as for women and girls. and while society and their family might have been skeptical at 1st fussing, i believe is that it takes just a few trailblazers to lead the way we are us of like a daughter of a very rarely is a sisters so that certainly we should have to be a little bit of, you know, reliving rebellious to do something crazy or to do something for others. so you

know what? and so our parents is gonna say something. everybody is going to say something until they so it's accessible. they may not be the rowdy rebels of skateboarding. we recognize from tv, but with the distinctive outfits cool, has thousands of moves and ability to roll with a crew to ethiopia. and girl skate has probably have more in common with skating origin than most of those is he opened scanner creams are certainly covering all their plays with grace and determination. but let's go ahead and run for that into the intriguing irene of women. sports in was i'm big of a to queens from the african continent has always been celebrated for the excellence behind the chairs and put in finishes life. another story. the dockside of high performance boards where the presence of success opened. collide with mental health challenges. that's the story or for my swimming pool,

did you just like us by no one's best info. olympics blurry, had dream self, just 2nd, a short, leaving high grappling with high break and depression. but this is not a story of defeat. it's one of re bus. just the warning, this story contains the discussions around suicide almost a decade ago jessica sonya was most, i'm big, square, swimming prodigy and ready to take on the olympics in rio de janeiro. the reason i started swimming when i was 2 years old, santa died a and when i was 7, i started competing to represent my country and that will buy your school and set the on and found this here from the age of 25, it was practically my life, the level of my life, i think, i mean so many of the, the, one more that me as we discussed on one, several types of and such important individual records in mozambique simply a much natalie is being a very hardworking athlete. very persistent. she gave

a lot for the country for swimming, for the sports in the country. but just because olympic gym felt a good, nice and the short and qualifying, just for 2nd separate to have from like, you know, with swimming, biggest task in really the disappointment of questions. is it good to say about the less on? no, no, i 5 feel pretty simple. now i have support on the one hand, but it wasn't enough uh its own season. the sequel died this uh falls on the de motivated me and with the loss of my coach then it'd be good to santos. i went into depression, i think the more people who do what i reside, the and i didn't know what to do with it. and i knew it all sort of it. it was besides arranging the because i was only a few seconds away from the pick minimum qualifying time. what's the most of the meaning more name before now for a jessica story is lots,

one of crushed dreams. in fact, it's about the incredible 10 around of a talented escalate finding a career beyond the pool, an ox saving a life. welcome to my studio. now it's hard to imagine that jessica was experienced suicidal thoughts as to falling into a depression post within 2 miles to going to my i was in a very, very bad space. i attempted suicide during my depression. so odd was really important for my lead, but i still don't know the nice face today. she pain some various surfaces such as canvases, fabrics, was murals, and even human bodies. that's what she needs school. okay, certainly i guess i me that this is my friends. i'm either, she's a dime so and she's going to be my body painting model for performance. she's going

to do to live with that. is that pretty natal was a i r complete some makes me more alive and freeze me to be who i am. so i already live from ok. it's really not every artist who has this opportunity to say it's helpful to me that but i think that as a woman, artist, we're gaining more space to be able to make a living from the dive as well. swimming. it's never give up on her. jessica pretends to the pain in 2022 as a coach. jessica samuels phone raise to move on from despair, and had great issues and guidance. the next generation of most of the big comes through the success of competitive swimming is her new target. just because sonya is doing it shows us how queens can reclaim their lives, even in the face of question to fit. it is a fond that depression rates among college athletes may range from 16 percent to 21

percent. now for us lease mental health and wellbeing just as important as a physical health. if you do experience suicidal thoughts. so good health. i've been there as mental health support, so it's now let's move to south africa where another group of queens is taking control of their well being. this time is a bottle of games. one of the country's most pressing health challenges. hey shy z without a 20 percent of adults leaving with the virus. young women face thornton reality shaped by and equality stigma. unlimited access to health cap mcqueen's leading the charge for a healthy a future, especially for women in china is bag nearly 20 percent of adults in south africa live with h i v. that's among the highest incidence rates in the world. l g, b, t q plus individuals and young woman like for your kazi, my cache are particularly vulnerable. as a young woman living in south africa,

fishing females, they not really, really much, given the proper education, you know about how economic inequality also disproportionately affects woman limits. of access to quality health care, many feel pressured into relationships with older men, often without access to protection. that's promising clinical trials exploring injectable h ivy medication could be a game changer. patients receive injections every 2 or 6 months as opposed to taking daily pope. i'm still young, it's only old people that will you know, keep the discipline of always having to remind themselves that okay, i need to dream vehicles you know, so yeah, i'm young as as my feet. oh for dates, experts say injectable prep eliminates meeting to carry or take polls probably keep reducing the stigma associated with h i. v. prep can also be used without

a partner as cooperation. this is particularly important when a woman is violence from the pop. now, if she asked them to use a condom research as like angela timble say, these factors could revolutionize h i v. prevention ability is because of the social and economic spaces in the country. they have access to you cannot make benefits because of cultural issues as well. the girl child is often forgotten in the household. you find that they make very bad decisions with regards to older partners. and also in terms of the social activities, way they come to condom to 6. and even in some cases, multiple partners as a, as a, as a way to make on income in south africa. clinical trials are underway for long acting drugs called lin, a cup of beer and tablets hargrove year. however, they all hurdles to overcome. while prep has been used successfully and homosexual men for several years, clinical studies have shown

a mixed picture regarding the effectiveness of print in women as also not search and how transgender people respond to long acting h r b medication. a disproportionately high number of transgender south african h i v positive research. as in being as entwined, that field tries people are being excluded from consideration. a huge part of our trust gender population is play is working class. and i feel like the odds being accommodated in terms of access to care or health care. and being using klein, i've talked about as well. so considering trying injectable medication, but they want more information set. yes, i have heard about thinking tools and i thought about them as something that i would rather get on to as opposed to the polls. i'm not very educate so on the side effects involved as perhaps so there's not much awareness i think available to me. and i like a person who's going to give them the lived experience on how perhaps treated them in my communities among the unknowns. there's one fact long acting,

a chevy. medication is currently more expensive than daily pools presently on the market. guessing the drug to remote communities will also be a challenge. a realistic timeline to get these injectable at a fair price to people who need it. i mean, it depends on how hard we want to fight and how much we want to be an advocate, realistically speaking, 10 to 15 is. that's when we'll have access to these things. if we do it the right way, while advances in a try be treatment or promising, and indeed, groundbreaking, house officials are still wary according prep. i'm of the long accident drugs. so the blended from fighting for health and credit in south africa. we step into a world of apologetic self expression and cultural pride with bringing back a far as the the moment africa of drug who embodies the sierras, intersection of enclose a culture and create as belinda is redefining drug. as both as celebration and

a protest, we've been moved. montage that black dr. magic. the how does the mama africa of craig celebrate? quinn is and close a culture despite pushed back. i can not separate my cost on it from my pier. knows because they both a part of my identity, but when they click come, a cup of coffee is a drag all it's it's an active living in. ty lita, a township on the cape flat, they drag the survey is inspired by the close of culture and permanent female. so that for contrib places. when i say i'm a post of quail queered casa, it's because the to for me i into lead. because i'm proudly cost, i'm also proud to be clear. and for me it is only important because it's also work of i'm doing these either on his ideas that being create, i'm african. belinda is the founder of a move and quote,

hash tag to that track. magic which tells the stories of the struggles of black, clear people living in township. sweet discrimination is part of everyday life. tundra space of south full queer lives. if the difficult face to navigate normally exact is to see with the one that roll definition. but it's the live thing, k, you clap, and that is also protest. i think in the township, particularly plays of political it for only because it times crosses, it really says x and norma tells type, this is no space. it's lisa english. and i this ideas of same dine being belinda is prepaying for the next performing as, as a huge liner at kate's on pride. we've been deemed invisible for a very long time. not because we want to buy because we haven't been given the space also reflects the diversity of the community,

but it also seems as different message age. the cream is not going to be a white thing. and that's the, the, the dominant data toes in africa. but that is it, that the creative was imported from the waste. so black visibility increased spaces is definitely very much important. for this use pride, belinda is performing songs by brenda fussy, the icon, the closest thing at the mcdonough of townships by time magazine k town. pride raises awareness of all the b t q plus issues and continuously campaigns for the freedoms of the queer community. in south africa, we are very lucky to being put africa. tons of it affords us our human security. we really, i'm, katie does not go off. i was to blame said, uh any at all possible africa. why do we denied existence in the own homelands input after jobs?

we need to appreciate and protect the legislation that provide us with our freedom and liberty for belinda. this freedom is not just political. it is also the personal, it's the only time when i'm free, but i'm on stage. it's the type of thing built that i want for if it was. it's the soul of right to the the moment because the drag is making a statement by challenging traditional know, bringing awareness to the fact the culture and orientation one when it comes to who you are, the those greens of fi alas. and now to crown the show we celebrate african cleans me the house of oreo quin. i mean not all of them is all from the now. could do an

estate in the general. yeah. staying in west africa, queen of la poco from the ashanti, king them in gone. i created the ball and i can now i'm the legendary queen said don't home bay from present. they been in who lived on all female militia because it's a home mamma zones. but let's now visit in a jerry, a sick, a city of the late fee were made to missouri. she and queen share about the leasing of the royal bond. who carries the rich heritage of the euro. but people who have music and story telling hello my name is queen shabba, coming to you all the way from southwest name julia. you are watching the, the youth 77 percent. i'm here to pick you on the top of my city, the laser, as cardboard, the lady fig. i the could see tlc. the laser is this, the retail homeland of nigeria survive, people measure the whole set. it was founded by or do door and ations define king.

his descendants continued to rule from the central palace to this day and sing to and compose the queen. sugar is the mido of his royal band. * he left the place of dispassion on his way home for audio box in a fit under your reputable company describing 3 words. and that's just called shaw tradition. i'm a view, queen sure, but it takes us to the entrance to the central landmark, the tyrants. talk to you of the water, you more in here we yeah, it's one of the shame this. this is called more re me josh. all right, that is more of a me a bit. she's a strong woman. she's a warranty or the only to me while you are in the later she came around when she had that yeah fights, and that was it came to rescue them on one to bought to for them to from the past to the present queen shep late. so as to the cause of today's your

backing right now i'm in depaula. okay. same program i just see. oh and you reach out to any to oversee or i just click on this this way. i do my v as i was in 2 weeks with my team. follow me as well. yeah. no. the, the music is very, very important. is that the file core, charles and we use it to print wherever you use it is a king to choose. i'm now going to look up next week and then that's all inspiration. and i'm surprised music customers because that's the only

way to keep on every stage unless not far from the palace is the local branch of the national. miss young jerry? yeah. i didn't measure numbers them off in the say the whole door in there, we have so many objects done by a fall for that. in the past we have those calls. we have a fed up with the objects on so many things and the type of treasure produced by lisa, delicious food and produce the growing stiff capital is an agricultural hub life it full of funding. we have on man working on the funds and well, ma'am we've come to the market to set our firm for this is in this market. we can get a y issue. i'll come by and by do it we'll see. look at why as the gallery, as like on see, we have

a palm horse. it is from what we use it. so we pay off to plastic here, but the leak is just like above and there we see always what's in ready, but that's not the only thing that is houghton ready to this day. local blocks me to come on molten, mete into ox works, and finding tools in the open air workshop. aside for the most point between 500, i'm now i'm good. it is fair as begun to develop a major axis to center the delay, sir, is the hotline of night terrorist here above people. i mentioned c t that follows it's going to be any time i look at your late fee, i see all i see a bright future and i am very proud to be your over from

believe the and while it may not mean anything to some, the term queen teaches us back to paul, lies and embracing with the pots of who we are, and in celebrating our divers, unbreakable spirits. but would love to hear your thoughts on this. so far as on our soul shows and be a part of the conversation. with that, as close with the eye clinic you hear me, i love day was music continues to inspire us to celebrate our roots trends and our as i evolving identities give are defined in what it means to be a quiz. unless your spirit child, i am frontier like i'm a low. she see you next time for you, the

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