My show was inspired by the hashtag #proudtobeenglish – that hashtag is mine! All my life, I’ve been told I can’t be English as I wasn’t born here. We claim Eddie Izzard and Joanna Lumley, but they weren’t born here. If you say they can be English but not me, that’s racist, as it comes down to skin colour. Your home is where you say it is, just like your gender is what you say it is.
HAIR AND MAKE-UP: SADAF AHMAD
My family fled Iran in the 1970s and, as a child refugee, experiencing hostility from adults was a big deal. When you’re five and people tell you to ‘go home’, it’s going to create anxiety. Then it becomes a fight back – they don’t get to tell me where I deserve to be or what I’m entitled to.