Hári Sewell talks with Rob Berkeley on masculinity and queer identity. Award-winning busybody, and recovering academic, Rob Berkeley is founding editor of BLKOUT_UK.com, the asset-based community development agency, and collaborative leadership network for and by Black queer men. He was Director of the UK’s leading racial justice think-tank, Runnymede Trust (2009-14). A writer on education, social justice and community organizing, a 2019 Simon Industrial Fellow at the University of Manchester, he has presented and co-produced short form documentaries, and lectured across the UK and beyond (even when lecturers left their sofas to do so!) Rob is a trustee of three charities delivering change through arts, film and philanthropy. Dr Berkeley was awarded an MBE in 2015 for services to equality. Typically biting the hand that feeds, he is working with other honorees to change the order’s name to better reflect Britain’s multicultural future over its imperial past.