If You Know, You Know – Queerness Beyond the Plot

in partnership with Queer Media Society 

When does queer representation stop being “representation” and simply become life on screen? For a new generation of audiences, queerness can be a fact rather than a plot, something that needs neither explanation nor justification. But that freedom is far from universal. Across Europe, geography, politics and culture still determine which stories can be told, and how boldly they can be told. At a time when hard-won freedoms are once again being questioned, this conversation asks what normalisation really means, who gets to experience it and how storytellers can speak authentically to a generation growing up between progress and backlash.