Welcome back! Season three is under way and we are starting out with a bang with British author Kestral Gaian, novelist, playwright, poet and professional over thinker. Join us as we discuss Gaian’s new book The Boy From Elsewhere and their poetry from their collection, Tubelines, along with genre, the politics of language, time (and how the construct almost changed completely), and authentic LGBTQ+ characters. Is kissing a political action? Is someone’s identity an attack on someone else? We’ll talk about the human propensity to put words and people in boxes - the human need to define the undefinable. How are you defined? Who defines you? How would you redefine yourself? 

There is a challenge in this episode that can win you a signed copy of Kestral Gaian’s new book The Boy From Elsewhere so listen up, post the challenge, you can just post it on social media OR email it to us at [email protected], and tag three people who you think would want to complete the challenge. 

Find out more about Kestral Gaian’s work at: https://kestr.al/

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Thank you to our guest: Kestral Gaian 

Kestral Gaian is an author, poet, and playwright whose work refuses to sit neatly inside a box. Their writing inhabits the places where genres overlap and come undone: the personal and the political, the digital and the human, the soft and the furious. Kestral’s work is defined by a deep belief that stories can help us practise being better humans. Or at least weirder, kinder ones.

Kestral's background is wide ranging, from psychotherapy to technology to community activism, and this diversity infuses their art. Audiences and readers often describe being moved not just by what Kestral writes, but by how it feels to inhabit the worlds they create: playful, thoughtful, deeply human.

Whether writing poetry, plays, lyrics, or fiction, Kestral Gaian is committed to work that challenges, delights, and endures. Their voice is one of defiance and tenderness, of systems questioned, and of humanity held close.