‘We are the misfits, open your doors to us’; responding to Michaela Coel’s McTaggart Lecture

“Being a misfit hurts” said writer and actor Michaela Coel as she stood up at the Edinburgh International Television Festival to deliver the MacTaggart Lecture - only the fifth woman to do so and the first from an ethnic minority background – and though this is important for many reasons, it is her extraordinary creativity that earned her place at that podium.
 
As a TV writer and playwright (alongside my day job), I admit that I shed a little tear as she spoke - I know th