Campbell X: Still We Thrive

Changing the Frame

Hosts Leo Torre and Indigo Korres interview Campbell X about his work as a writer and filmmaker. Campbell's work deals with queer memory, desire and Blackness across the African diaspora. He directed the award-winning queer urban romantic comedy feature film STUD LIFE. He also directed the short films Still We Thrive, about Black joy and resistance and DES!RE, about yearning and lust for men, mascs and studs. He has also directed the documentary VISIBLE, about reclaiming QTBIPOC UK history. Campbell is currently in post-production on his second feature Low Rider a queer road trip, which was filmed in the Western Cape region of South Africa starring Emma Mcdonald and Thishiwe Ziqubu.

Campbell's Media Recommendations:

- BOOK: Stone Butch Blues by Leslie Feinberg

- FILM: Beyond the Aggressives: 25 Years Later by Eric Daniel Peddle

- FILM: Kokomo City by D. Smith

- FILM: Looking for Langstone by Isaac Julien

- FILM: Queen of my Dreams by Fawzia Mirza

- FILM: The Aggressives by Eric Daniel Peddle

- FILM: The Homecoming by Topher Campbell

- FILM: Watermelon Woman by Cheryl Dunye

- PODCAST: Busy Being Black

- PODCAST: Two twos

- All of bell hooks and Audre Lorde (specially her “on the erotic”) and James Baldwin

Make sure to follow Campbell on instagram and twitter: @campbellx

Check out Campbell's Linktr.ee: linktr.ee/campbellx

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Episode Recorded on: 18/01/2024