“Am I filming from love or am I filming from fear?” This is the question that London-based filmmaker, storyteller and integrative coach, Maleena Pone, was constantly asking herself when filming her debut Channel 4 documentary Saving Mum: Our Family Secret.

Dr Ronx is an emergency medicine doctor in Hackney, East London, a CBBC presenter on Operation Ouch!, a mentor to young people in Hackney and the author of two children's non-fiction medical books — Amazing Bodies and How to Save a Life. The latter, their latest book, aims to help 6-9-year-olds know what to do in medical emergencies.

Meet Priya Ragu, a Sri Lankan-Tamil singer-songwriter bringing her blend of second generation musical innovations to a global stage.

What if dance could dismantle oppression? Artists Davi Pontes and Wallace Ferreira have spent years collaborating and developing choreographic methods to challenge the very structures that constrain bodies through race, sexuality, and gender. Their latest work, “Repertório No. 1”, interrogates the widespread societal violence enacted on black bodies and imagines how to create a future where the body can become a space of protection against the mechanisms of brutality.

Africa has made waves in society by presenting a rejection to woke culture and binary thinking, which has echoed globally as seen in ITV, BBC Radio One, BBC Radio 4, BBC Sounds, and acclaimed podcasts such as Steven Bartlett’s Diary of a CEO and The Jordan B Peterson podcast.

It is an afternoon in London as Africa jolts her infectious smile over Zoom, and the warmest inviting “Hello darling!” as she opens up to talk about how society is constantly decentering human authenticity by enforcing collective thinking and rigid societal standards.

Katayoun Jalilipour is a writer, performer and lecturer that knows all about putting on a performance.