There is value in choosing how to be seen, in reclaiming the right to select the face you show the world, in insisting that others see you as you know yourself to be.

Celeste Ng

Welcome back to the Queer Circle Podcast, where Queer healers share their journeys and what they’d tell their younger selves. Today’s guest is Bhumi B. Patel (she/they), a Queer Artistic Director for pateldanceworks in the Bay Area, California/Occupied Ohlone land. Bhumi directs a company that creates immersive performance works at the intersection of embodied research and activism. Bhumi is also a Dance Educator at West Valley College, teaching dance technique and choreography classes. To learn more about Bhumi’s work, check out their website pateldanceworks.org or Instagram @pateldanceworks. 

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Music by Purple Fluorite (Bandcamp // or all the streaming platforms)

Transcript

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