Karen Miano's guest appearances

Karen Miano

Molly's Minutes

Umbrella

Tend Your Garden

Shawna Scott

Charlie Butler

Lucy Holmes

Saoirse Ní Scanláin

Lucinda Graham

Caroline West

Hayden Cassidy

Emma Roche

Youtuber Keelin Moncreif

Rachel Maguire

Jade McCann

Sarah Devereux

Stephen Byrne

Beth Hayden

Sunil Sharpe

OwlTail

Give a warm welcome to Karen Miano co-creator of Origins Eile a space made for and by Black queer people in Ireland. Karen and I discuss the perils of pedestal feminism, why its vitally important to not only ask Black people about racism and the difference between intentional versus safe spaces. We also stan Emma Dabiri. Karen chats about the cult of productivity, the celebrification of activism and how we do not have to monetise eeeeverything we do. DISCLAIMER: my voice is very sore in this. Find Tend Your Garden onlineFind Me online 

Give a warm welcome to <a href="https://www.instagram.com/nonbinaryicon/?hl=en" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Karen Miano</a> co-creator of <a href="https://www.instagram.com/originseile/?hl=en" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Origins Eile</a> a space made for and by Black queer people in Ireland. Karen and I discuss the perils of pedestal feminism, why its vitally important to not only ask Black people about racism and the difference between intentional versus safe spaces. We also stan Emma Dabiri. Karen chats about the cult of productivity, the celebrification of activism and how we do not have to monetise eeeeverything we do. DISCLAIMER: my voice is very sore in this. Find <a href="https://www.instagram.com/tendyourgarden.podcast/?hl=en" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Tend Your Garden</a> online Find <a href="https://www.instagram.com/roisin_nic_gh/?hl=en" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Me</a> online

Pedestal feminism, art, queerness and activism with Karen Miano

This week Karen joins Cian and they discuss setlist.fm, hate crime legislation, the overlap between being black and queer, they give advice to a listener who didn't want to take a selfie and there is a rundown of the latest Dublin queer events. Check Karen out on IG ( @siucra_mathair ) and the POC only event they organise ( @originseile ) and their podcast ( @ealuofficial )Send your queer ear to @umbrellaradioshow

This week Karen joins Cian and they discuss <a href="http://setlist.fm" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">setlist.fm</a>, hate crime legislation, the overlap between being black and queer, they give advice to a listener who didn't want to take a selfie and there is a rundown of the latest Dublin queer events.  Check Karen out on IG ( @siucra_mathair ) and the POC only event they organise ( @originseile ) and their podcast ( @ealuofficial ) Send your queer ear to @umbrellaradioshow

Black Pride w/ Karen Miano

Starting out as a photographer Karen Miano has always had sights on the bigger picture. Named as one of the People To Watch in 2018 in the media category of the Irish Times &amp; GCN, their entrepreneurial work to date has always been to uplift their community. In 2015 Karen started working with musician, producer &amp; filmmaker Sal Stapleton (aka Bad Bones) they interned with Goldmoth Media as an assistant then working as a web designer &amp; producer for small commercial projects and music videos. Making the switch from film &amp; design to the music industry was an easy transition as Karen grew up with musician’s in their friend group and regularly offered advice and oversight they have also worked as artist liaison with festivals such as Body &amp; Soul, Electric Picnic &amp; stage managed the trenchtown EP stages. 2016 saw Karen managing Blackfish Collective &amp; Tour Managing Bad Bones. With Blackfish winning AFROPUNK’S (2018) highly sought after slot in London, they are currently roundhouse resident artists. After a stint as Bad Bones manager they made the move to tour manager. Both have since started a co-op record label DIAxDEM with Karen acting as A&amp;R and management, they also DJ under the pseudonym KARMA all of their sets are a conscious effort to play 87% sonics/tracks with poc or queer artists. In early 2017 Karen started the inception of GXRLCØDE with partner Mona Lxsa, working on the branding launch event and name. Seeing the importance in seeing themselves represented the small but pivotal decision was taken to play on gender and wording hence GXRLCØDE... Autumn of 2017 they started radio training in RTÉ with hopes of starting a show on rté Pulse with GXRLCØDE, with family issues taking precedent on one of the members the show fell through - Karen has used this knowledge to start Éalú (escape in Irish) With nearly 10 years of creative work behind them, outspoken, unequivocal, resourceful, and empathetic in their approach to community work through arts, Karen Miano is a creative with a focus on inclusion and uplifting marginalised voices.

Starting out as a photographer Karen Miano has always had sights on the bigger picture. Named as one of the People To Watch in 2018 in the media category of the Irish Times &amp; GCN, their entrepreneurial work to date has always been to uplift their community. In 2015 Karen started working with musician, producer &amp; filmmaker Sal Stapleton (aka Bad Bones) they interned with Goldmoth Media as an assistant then working as a web designer &amp; producer for small commercial projects and music videos. Making the switch from film &amp; design to the music industry was an easy transition as Karen grew up with musician’s in their friend group and regularly offered advice and oversight they have also worked as artist liaison with festivals such as Body &amp; Soul, Electric Picnic &amp; stage managed the trenchtown EP stages. 2016 saw Karen managing Blackfish Collective &amp; Tour Managing Bad Bones. With Blackfish winning AFROPUNK’S (2018) highly sought after slot in London, they are currently roundhouse resident artists. After a stint as Bad Bones manager they made the move to tour manager. Both have since started a co-op record label DIAxDEM with Karen acting as A&amp;R and management, they also DJ under the pseudonym KARMA all of their sets are a conscious effort to play 87% sonics/tracks with poc or queer artists. In early 2017 Karen started the inception of GXRLCØDE with partner Mona Lxsa, working on the branding launch event and name. Seeing the importance in seeing themselves represented the small but pivotal decision was taken to play on gender and wording hence GXRLCØDE... Autumn of 2017 they started radio training in RTÉ with hopes of starting a show on rté Pulse with GXRLCØDE, with family issues taking precedent on one of the members the show fell through - Karen has used this knowledge to start Éalú (escape in Irish) With nearly 10 years of creative work behind them, outspoken, unequivocal, resourceful, and empathetic in their approach to community work through arts, Karen Miano is a creative with a focus on inclusion and uplifting marginalised voices.

Being a Multidimensional Creative with Karen Miano