We also face barriers to participation on the ground; being turned away from venues for the way we dress and look or struggling to find events where we feel welcome. Rave culture, drinking and drugs are part of student culture in Cardiff and other university cities in Wales – this is not what we are looking for. Theatre and gallery spaces come with their own cultural barriers. Elitist attitudes, cold and clinical environments and overwhelmingly white, middle class audiences make us feel unwelcome, or at best regarded as exotic and tokenised and made to feel foreign in spaces in our own cities. There’s also a divide between rural and urban communities in Wales, and between different social classes.
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