I’ve created a life for myself where I regularly feel visible. I’m glad to be able to surround myself with queer friends, a queer community, both in my work and in my personal life. Mandla: Pride is, I guess, an everyday thing and not so much about “Pride Month”, “Pride Weekend” or whatever. What does Pride look like in the world of Mandla Rae? Just having an audience who are interested in answering and asking these questions as well. Manchester, where I’m based, is a really great space to have conversations with people and share ideas. I suppose that's the sort of circles that I surround myself with: I feel quite lucky to have lots of queer people around me who work in the arts.

Mandla: I feel like I've been quite lucky in that other people do tend to have an interest.

Are other people interested in answering those questions? Or is it a fight to be able to pose them? You were saying earlier about how much of your art is about answering the questions that you've always had. I think that’s a really beautiful way to describe transness: a soft fluidity of being, rather than as a medical diagnosis. It’s to describe someone who is trans, but the meaning is “the transformative, soft, fluid one”. Mandla: There’s one, from Sesotho, which is “serurubele”. Were there any terms that you learned, working with Find New Words, where you realised we could probably do with an equivalent in the English language?