Honey Dijon on house music’s Black Queer legacy
‘I was very fortunate to be born at the beginning of a culture that we now know as house music.’
In September 2023 Honey Dijon presented Honeyverse at the Southbank Centre, a mix of club nights, live sets and conversations that drew inspiration from her roots in the Black Queer community.
This interview goes behind the scenes of Honeyverse, following Honey Dijon onto the Royal Festival Hall stage as she discusses how Black Queer culture took the European musical inspirations of early house music and made it their own, creating spaces in which they could be themselves.
Honeyverse, Dijon explains, was inspired by a want to give a voice to the many different facets of the Black Queer experience, which she terms a ‘prism of expression’, and to remind people of how this music began, and ensure the history of house music isn’t whitewashed.
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