Cross-border friends, Sania and Oishika share stories about growing up in Pakistan and India, and navigating life in America. Stay tuned for some gupshup*, a little bit of singing, and a whole lot of pop cultural references!
*a Hindi-Urdu word meaning light-hearted conversations
This one gets personal. Surrounded by ads, songs, film, and TV glorifying fairness, we discuss our own experiences with colorism and who is impacted the most by this cultural fixation on fair skin.
Amnesty toolkit mentioned in the episode: https://www.amnesty.org.au/toolkit-gaza-crisis/
UNRWA for Palestine: https://donate.unrwa.org/-landing-page/en_EN
2 Nov 2024
S1E4: What's the Shor with Shaadis?
Two biryani gluttons .... I mean .... we talk about the Big Fat Desi Wedding: the rituals we have observed and the underlying beauty, weirdness, community, and misogyny of our wedding cultures -- sometimes all at the same time.
25 Aug 2024
S1E3: Hindi Medium and English Large
We are obsessed with English. O-B-S-E-S-S-E-D.
We plead guilty and talk about growing up with this shared colonial hangover.
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14 Aug 2024
S1E2: School Shool & Student of the Year
Canteen ke samosay, Sports Days, academic rivalries, and some awkward confessions....we look back at our school days: the things we're happy to be done with and the things we miss the most.
To help protect the right of children in Gaza to live, go to school, make these memories, please consider donating to UNRWA at donate.unrwa.org
13 Aug 2024
S1E1.5: Why we paused and why we've returned
Journalists on the ground in Gaza:
Hind Khoudary - https://www.instagram.com/hindkhoudary/
Bisan Owda - https://www.instagram.com/wizard_bisan1/
4 Oct 2023
S1E1: K3G & Culture Shock
We talk about what gave us the biggest culture shock after moving to America (hint: it wasn't the Americans) and what we assumed we knew about each other's countries (that some consider enemy nations).
1 Oct 2023
S1E0: Intro
Who? What? Why??
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