Episode 11 Rob Berkeley on masculinity, gender and queer identity

Hári Sewell talks with Rob Berkeley on masculinity and queer
identity. Award-winning busybody, and recovering academic, Rob
Berkeley is founding editor of BLKOUT_UK.com, the asset-based
community development agency, and collaborative leadership
network for and by Black queer men. He was Director of the UK’s
leading racial justice think-tank, Runnymede Trust (2009-14). A
writer on education, social justice and community organizing, a
2019 Simon Industrial Fellow at the University of Manchester, he
has presented and co-produced short form documentaries, and
lectured across the UK and beyond (even when lecturers left their
sofas to do so!) Rob is a trustee of three charities delivering
change through arts, film and philanthropy. Dr Berkeley was
awarded an MBE in 2015 for services to equality. Typically biting
the hand that feeds, he is working with other honorees to change
the order’s name to better reflect Britain’s multicultural future
over its imperial past.