{"id":14476,"date":"2025-10-09T14:51:44","date_gmt":"2025-10-09T13:51:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/applesandsnakes.org\/?p=14476"},"modified":"2025-10-13T14:35:01","modified_gmt":"2025-10-13T13:35:01","slug":"ray-vincent-mills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/applesandsnakes.org\/2025\/10\/09\/ray-vincent-mills\/","title":{"rendered":"Ray Vincent-mills"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Describe yourself in 3 words\u2026<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8211; Enthusiastic<br>&#8211; Curious<br>&#8211; Camp<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">What inspires you?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8211; Hip hop<br>&#8211; Community<br>&#8211; Eavesdropping<br>&#8211; Eating desserts<br>&#8211; Being able to have two dinners because I can<br>&#8211; Surprising myself with what I create<br>&#8211; Other people taking something from a piece I&#8217;ve work I&#8217;ve created that I hadn&#8217;t thought about.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Tell us about your worst ever gig?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Honestly nothing terrible has happened really apart from me getting in my own head.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">What\u2019s your number one poetry pet peeve?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>People apologising profusely before they read!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Whose words do you love at the moment?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The last book I read was <em>Strange Beach<\/em> by Oluwaseun Olayiwola &amp; &#8216;<em>my mother raised a normal man<\/em>&#8216; I think is a perfect poem!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Shearlings debut album <em>Motherfucker: I am both Amen and hallelujah<\/em> I think sits at a very cool intersection of poetry, music and theatre and I think the lyrics are great! Saw them live recently and wen through every human emotion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I recently went to a talk about the history of camp trans by a trans butch woman called Sadie Crabtree. I really enjoyed her talking about how activism has shifted in the age of social media and how we can use how our actions and language in more intentional ways. I also just think its rare to hear about the history of something like that in person amongst people who all share the same identity. Was neat and cool!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">What piece of advice would you give to your younger self?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>You were right all along, congratulations you&#8217;re a boy, go be one it&#8217;s gonna be okay!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Beach or mountains?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Mountains! My mums side are all hiking enthusiasts which meant I&#8217;d be dragged along to 3-5 hour hikes when I was like ten.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Also sand is terrible! 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