Prickly Peers

About Prickly Peers

Have you ever wondered why some brown women can stand up to norms and stereotypes more easily than the rest of us? We call them prickly women! Is prickliness inherent or inherited, can you build the prickly muscle to be able to achieve your goals more easily, where do you lie on the prickly meter? Join Ankita and Nalini, your prickly peers, as they talk to uninhibited brown women all over the world in a quest to find the secret brown sauce for their courage, success and happiness. Don’t forget to follow us on Instagram and X @thepricklypeers. Or write to us at thepricklypeers@gmail.com. See less

Publisher

Prickly Peers

Category

society & culture

Language

en

Explicit

Yes

First episode

25 Aug 2023

Latest episode

19 Dec 2025

Latest episodes

32 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   19 Dec 2025

   S03E09: How (& where) to find a life partner - the Prickly Peers framework for independent women

   Send us a text In typical season finale format, Nalini and Ankita meet up to summarize everything they heard and learnt this season about what it means to be or have a life partner the non traditional way, where to go looking for such a person, when to STOP looking (using the 37% rule) and finally... How to make it last! This time, for the first time, AI helped them put together 5 very meaningful pillars for "independent " women to find a new-age not-necessarily-romantic-spouse after digestin...

2. 

   27 Sept 2025

   Malvika gaur on being more than a queer brown person in a life-partnership

   Send us a text Growing up in New Delhi as the youngest of the 3 daughters in a “normal” Indian family, Malvika always knew she was different than her sisters and people around. From wanting to wear a tuxedo to a wedding as a child to owning her “tom-boyish” identity as a teenager, Malvika didn’t wake up one day and come out to herself, her family or the world. She became who she is, by carefully exploring parts of her identity- sexual and otherwise, while not jumping to conclusions and labels...

3. 

   5 Jun 2025

   The "Part 2 Order": Discovering myself while transitioning from Aboli to Mrs Praful to the war widow of (Late) Major Praful Moharkar

   Aboli Moharkar recounts her life-altering journey from young love to war widow after marrying Major Praful Moharkar under the Indian Defence forces' Part 2 Order in this interview.

Reach and audience

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YouTube views

1,282

Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025

Spotify

5.0 / 5

18 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 57 / 100

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Quality

59

Social presence

0

YouTube

68

Engagement

71

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