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PrideXtra returns to Reading Pride Festival! Hosted by Miss Charley O’llocks & Grace Anatomy, enjoy a vibrant showcase of drag, music, comedy, and more.

Celebrating diversity, community, and sustainability with thanks to all our supporters!

30/10/2026

A little clip from our very own Madam Lether's appearance on BBC Radio Berkshire's Friday Book Club with the wonderful Bill Buckley!

Madam Lether had such a lovely time chatting about books, sharing some of her favourite reads and talking a little about what we've been up to here at PrideXtra.

A massive thank you to everyone at BBC Radio Berkshire for making us feel so welcome. It really was such a wonderful experience!

If you missed it, you can catch the full interview now on BBC Sounds!

29/10/2026

WHY ARE WE SO DRAWN TO THE STRANGE?

What is it about the weird, the unusual and the unsettling that keeps pulling us back in?

In another fascinating moment from Dr Ama Josephine Budge Johnstone’s conversation with Madam Lether, Ama talks about our attraction to the strange, using Teenage S*x and Death at Camp Miasma as one of the brilliant examples along the way.

It’s another little glimpse into a conversation that goes in some wonderfully unexpected directions.

Watch or listen to the full conversation with in Episode Three of Writers & Worlds with Madam Lether, out now on Spotify and all major podcast platforms.

Dr Ama Josephine Budge Johnstone: Queerness, Ecology & Speculative Worlds
A PrideXtra Original.

27/10/2026

Who tuned in to BBC Radio Berkshire's Book Club last Friday?

We were so excited to have our very own Madam Lether representing PrideXtra on BBC Radio Berkshire!

Madam Lether had an absolutely wonderful time chatting about all things books, sharing her recommendations of The Hellbound Heart by Clive Barker and The Fisherman by John Langan, and talking a little about her own writing and our podcast, Writers & Worlds.

A massive thank you to the lovely team at for making her feel so welcome. It was such a brilliant experience, and we're incredibly grateful to have been invited along!

27/10/2026

A huge thank you to the wonderful Loui von Dini for joining us on the PrideXtra stage at Reading Pride 2026!

Bringing a little magic to our stage, Loui was such a lovely addition to this year's line-up, and we were so pleased to have him be part of the day.

Thank you, Loui, for sharing your talents with us and helping make this year's PrideXtra so special. We hope to see you again soon!

Photography by Amy Adams and John Donnelly.

26/10/2026

Episode 7 of Behind the Sequins & Rhinestones is here!

Miss Charley O’llocks and Grace Anatomy are back together for another round of questions, stories and the kind of conversations that could only happen on the PrideXtra stage.

This episode, and share some genuinely brilliant advice for anyone thinking about starting out in drag, drawing on their own experiences and everything they’ve learned along the way.
And, naturally, things take a turn as we delve into some of their wildest memories, involving and a cucumber.
(Not together, babes.)

Join us for Episode 7 of Behind the Sequins & Rhinestones, with Miss Charley O’llocks and Grace Anatomy.

Watch the full episode now across PrideXtra’s socials.

25/10/2026

WHERE DO WE WRITE PLEASURE FROM?

Another fascinating little moment from our conversation with the incredible Dr Ama Josephine Budge Johnstone.

In this clip, talks about where she writes pleasure from, giving us another glimpse into the ideas, experiences and perspectives that shape her creative work.
And there’s so much more where this came from.

Watch or listen to the full conversation in Episode Three of Writers & Worlds with Madam Lether, out now on Spotify and all major podcast platforms.

Dr Ama Josephine Budge Johnstone: Queerness, Ecology & Speculative Worlds
A PrideXtra Original.

24/10/2026

A little Lentil Pulse appreciation post.
This one is for you, .

After joining us on the PrideXtra stage last year, Lentil returned this year to co-host the stage and has since become an even bigger part of the PrideXtra team.

Behind the scenes, Lentil is the person working away on our social media and is now our Social Media Correspondent for Reading Pride, helping us share everything PrideXtra gets up to throughout the year.

From hosting and creating to celebrating our community and occasionally causing a little green chaos along the way, Lentil brings so much passion, creativity and love to what we do.

We’re extremely grateful to have you as part of our little team and very excited for everything still to come.

We love you, Lentil.
This one’s for you. 💚

23/10/2026

“THE MOST BEAUTIFUL INTRODUCTION I’VE EVER RECEIVED.”

We agree! A beautiful introduction for an absolutely wonderful human being.
In Episode Three of Writers & Worlds, Madam Lether sits down with Dr Ama Josephine Budge Johnstone for a conversation spanning q***rness, Black identity, ecology, speculative fiction, creativity and the many different worlds that storytelling allows us to explore.

And this lovely little moment is only the beginning of their conversation.
Listen to the full interview in Episode Three of Writers & Worlds with Madam Lether, out now on Spotify and all major podcast platforms.

Dr Ama Josephine Budge Johnstone: Queerness, Ecology & Speculative Worlds
A PrideXtra Original.

23/10/2026

EPISODE THREE IS HERE!

We’re so excited to share the third episode of Writers & Worlds, with Madam Lether joined by the incredible Dr Ama Josephine Budge Johnstone.

is a speculative writer, artist, curator and pleasure activist whose work moves across writing, art, research and activism, exploring ideas around q***rness, Black identity, ecology, climate and the worlds we imagine for ourselves and each other.

In this episode, Madam Lether and Ama talk about the relationship between identity and creativity, Black and q***r perspectives within speculative fiction, ecology and our changing climate, finding your voice as a writer, and what it means to imagine different worlds through storytelling.

It’s a conversation that takes Writers & Worlds somewhere completely different, and we’re so excited to finally share it with you.

WRITERS & WORLDS WITH MADAM LETHER

Episode Three: Dr Ama Josephine Budge Johnstone: Queerness, Ecology & Speculative Worlds

OUT NOW
Available on Spotify and all major podcast platforms
A PrideXtra Original

21/10/2026

Don’t worry, Charley, we all forget names sometimes…

Another one of our favourite moments from the latest episode of Behind the Sequins & Rhinestones, as Miss Charley O’llocks tries to remember the name of a drag performer she absolutely loves. We’ve all been there.

Catch the full episode with and now across our social media platforms.

Behind the Sequins & Rhinestones: Season 1, Episode 6 is out now.

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