Life in Lockdown Archives

Life in Lockdown with Choriza May

20 September 2020 Art & Culture, Life in Lockdown

Life in Lockdown paid a visit to 2018's Drag Idol winner, one third of Billy's Girls... and global super star, Choriza May! My experience during lock down could have gone both ways, great or really bad. I decided I wasn’t going to let all the shit happening get to me, ...

Life in Lockdown with Newcastle Ravens

09 September 2020 Health & Wellbeing, Life in Lockdown, Sport & Fitness

Life in Lockdown left the doorstep, and heading on to the pitch to visit Newcastle Ravens during a social distanced training session to catch up with the team to find out how they have been dealing with the pandemic. Mike shares all the gossip from pitch side. https://youtu.be/Kf5yBCJvk8g The Newcastle Ravens are ...

Life in Lockdown with Dami

02 September 2020 Art & Culture, Gender Identity, Life in Lockdown, Politics

This episode of Life in Lockdown we are with Dami who shares their experience of the pandemic which saw a focus on celebrating black womxn and more. Hi! My name is Dami Fawehinmi and I am a second-year combined honours student at Newcastle University. I am also the creator of Journals ...

Life Lockdown with Oana

24 August 2020 Gender Identity, Life in Lockdown, Sexual Orientation, Uncategorised

Creators of Push-Back, a queer night out in Newcastle are the latest contributors to our Life in Lockdown series. For Richard and I, life in lockdown has been quite challenging. We are both very social people so not being allowed to meet up with friends and family for such a ...

Life in Lockdown with Whitney Bay

20 August 2020 Life in Lockdown

We continue our tails from Lockdown. This time Whitney Bay gives us some insight into her Saturday nights with the fam! Hey ! We are the Salmon’s (yes like the fish). Of course, lockdown has been tough for everyone but we here on the not so sunny shores of Whitley ...

Life in Lockdown with Calvin

13 August 2020 Health & Wellbeing, Life in Lockdown

As part of our Life in Lockdown campaign, Calvin shares their experience and the impact the pandemic has had on their mental health. As soon as the lockdown was announced the café that I work in closed immediately... ...but I was fortunate enough to be furloughed and my boss organised all ...

Life in Lockdown with Ill Health

06 August 2020 Art & Culture, Gender Identity, Life in Lockdown

As part of our Life in Lockdown campaign, we caught up with drag friends Ill Health, Opium and Venus Dimilo. Ill Health takes us through their story about being a group of friends locked in one house together! Our lockdown experience has been okay overall actually Opium works from home ...

Life in Lockdown with Jay

24 July 2020 Health & Wellbeing, Life in Lockdown

https://youtu.be/pgNRgF0D4J0 As part of our Life in Lockdown campaign, we caught up with Jay, who tells us his story about working throughout lockdown in a company that were producing respirators to help support the NHS and fight coronavirus! Hi, I'm Jay, 27 and I'm a senior project engineer at a company ...

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