Daisy Ifama

“The YouTube web series The Peculiar Kind was really important to me growing up,” says Daisy Ifama. “I was able to see mostly Women of Color, embodying all different types of gender expressions, [and] living their lives in a community I quickly realized I wanted for myself—talking about relationships, culture, sex. That really made me see what kind of life I could be living as a queer Black child that played with gender expression.” Now a filmmaker and creative, Ifama’s work reflects her early influences, inviting viewers to consider identity, community, history, and power in different ways. From Netflix’s Twinkleberry: My Super Gay School Year, which examines queerness in small-town England, to RIP Seni for The Guardian, exploring police brutality, justice, and mental health in London, Ifama’s work is inspired by her own identity and aims to inspire communities to liberate themselves. “I’ve been very lucky to be raised in a fairly queer culture, and I feel blessed to have been given the gift of queerness, to see myself as existing outside of society’s expectations and to have forged my own identity and path,” Ifama tells GO. “It can feel very lonely to not see the way you see yourself reflected in the world, so I feel honored to be a part of building that up for future queers. I think we are always evolving as queer people and as humans, so I hope to keep evolving in the same way in my work.” –LE