2 Brownish Girls

We're finally here. Cribbs and Talica reflect on the last four years since the creation of their podcast and thank their listeners for their support and what lies ahead for your 2 favourite Brownish girls. Special shout out to the listeners who sent voice messages in - Adele Luamanuvae, Eden, Jane T, Jasmine Greenwood, Katea (KT) FYR and Mihaka.

The Veiqia Project is a creative research project inspired by the practice of Fijian female tattooing of veiqia. In 2015 a group of Fijian women based in New Zealand and Australia were brought together to create new works for an exhibition inspired by veiqia (Fijian female tattoo), a practice that was stopped from around the mid-19th century and conducted in secrecy up to the early 20th century.  ...

It’s OCTOBERS VERY OWN! Here for our 3rd last episode of the series and we’re recording live from Whispers in the Hive! You have 1 Brownish Girl and 1 Brownish Boy here this month, Talica is taking some much needed R&R and will return for our November episode. This month we are joined by a special friend of mine, and someone I hold very close to my heart! He is the founder of Whispers in the Hive,...

Cribbs and Talica interview long time friend of the podcast - Pasepa, an Environmental Science major from Macquarie University, who has worked previously in Ecological Restoration. But she is not just a Scientist, she is a multi-faceted Baddie who has made her debut as a 007 in this year’s West Ball 4, hosted by Father Xander Silky and previous 2 Brownish Girls guest, Jamaica Moana, modeled in cam...

Cribbs & Talica revisit their iconic/traumatizing episode from Season 1 of the 2 Brownish Girl, Episode 7 - The Sole Struggle: "Dating" (or not dating), Brown Men, Insecurities or Q&A with a 2023 update and their perspectives on their July 2019 thoughts and what has changed since then. Join them for a cute little update, will Cribbs ever get over the hold Brown men have on her an...

Your favourite delusional Westies bring you a short and sweet update on how things have been for them in 2023 so far. From what they've been up to, the gigs they've attended and new changes in their life and the energy they want for the rest of the year. From Cribbs' new life update and the seasonal changes for her to Talica's never-ending rants on something that she has no control...

Today we are blessed with the presence of Concord’s finest, one of Concord High’s highly esteemed alumni, the CEO of Burwood Westfield, she’s gotta get on in Concord - it’s Youtuber and Content Creator, @eni420oner8. This one is for the Area girls, three girls in a room just chatting is what this one is about, so sit tight. Welcome to the show Eni! [HUGE LANGUAGE WARNING]

Cribbs & Talica have a full circle moment, being joined by Koori Radio's Puha & Pork Bones show hosts Kim & Cini. They discuss their driving force behind the creation of their radio show - their late and great co-host Jase, their favourite interviews, advice for people interested in getting into community and commercial broadcasting. Puha and Pork Bones is a Sydney based community radio show that...

Welcome to the 3rd episode of the Farewell Tour, with one of your talented and beautiful hosts, me, Cribbs! Based in Meanjin/Brisbane, Jessica Magro is a proud Samoan-Maltese-Australian producer having worked in the industry for the past ten years and is the founder of independent production company Purple Carrot Entertainment, which has a strong focus on Pasifika-led stories. In this episode we u...

Welcome back to Season 5 of 2 Brownish Girls, the farewell tour and I am one of your hosts, Cribbs. Happy Gregorian New Year, Lunar New Year and of course, happy 1st episode of the season! It’s great to be back and we hope that you’ve been enjoying some sort of a break or celebrating in the festivities with your loved ones! For the very very first episode, I am joined by someone special in my life...

Today’s episode marks the end of Season 4 of the 2 BROWNISH GIRLS PODCAST! Four seasons but technically 3 years that you have been listening to our lovely and slightly insufferable voices. For the last four years, we’ve always carefully curated our end of year episodes but this year we’re doing something completely different and will be asking each other questions from Flex Mami’s ReFlex 1 Deck. W...

It’s November and you’re here with ½ of 2 Brownish Girls, me, Cribbs and I’m joined today by ½ of the directors of the Pasifika Film Festival which is returning in person since 2018.. With this year’s festival being held at Riverside Theatres in Parramatta on Darug Country , what an honour it is to be sharing space with Eliorah as they prepare for their big weekend, this weekend!! Welcome Eliorah!

As avid Twitter users, Cribbs and Talica spend the September episode dissecting the community known as 'Poly Twitter' and specifically Noa @nottongan's  'Cycle of Poly Twitter'.  Every year there are discussions on the same subjects within the community and for this month's episode we're going to give our opinions once and for all. Time Stamps 06:43-13:04 - Should Non-Black people should...

My, how the time has flown. We’re over halfway through Season 4 and for this month of August, we’re doing a mid-year(ish) check in with each other. What have we been watching? What have we learnt? What energy do we wanna have for the remainder of 2022? Listen in to the girls as we break down what has, and what will be 2022.

If you're in Australia, welcome to a new Financial Year! Yes, us Corporate Girlies really feel like it's a new year once 1st July comes around. Speaking of July, this month's guest resides in the sunny state of Queensland, was born in Tuvalu and raised in Samoa until moving to Australia when she was 8 years old. She is part of a family owned business based in Brisbane called Penina Pearls and Peni...

Trigger Warning: Mentions of Youth Suicide and Gang Violence CORRECTION: I mentioned Nick Kyrgios being of Greek and Indonesian descent however he is of Greek and Malaysian descent, my apologies! Welcome to a bonus episode of 2 Brownish Girls where we have a great talanoa with Matavai Pacific Cultural Arts' Moemōana Schwenke and Pelesasa Pictures' Taofia Pelesasa about 'Motu of Western Sydney' an...

If you're in the Southern Hemisphere, welcome to our first wintery episode in June or Iuni in Samoan back in the studio for the first time in literal months (which is wild to me) and for this month’s episode, we are joined with a special interstate guest who is gracing us with their physical presence here in the studio. From the South Eastern Suburbs of Narrm to cold and wintery Sydney, we are exc...

Hello! It's gonna be MAY. Lol. Dry. We wanted to give a quick shoutout and thanks to all our listeners as we celebrate 3 years of the podcast this month, what a time to be alive ay. Fark. Can’t believe we made it this far. Anywho! Thanks to the day ones, the for life-ers and the ride or dies, we appreciate you all so much for sticking with us! This month, we are joined by none other than Jamaica M...

As we always say, we love interviewing Pasifika from all walks of life and it’s very important to us to provide a broad representation of our community. Western World media has always put limitations on our community with stereotypes on what we can achieve. That’s why it’s incredibly important for us on this podcast to interview our community and give space to everyone’s lived experiences and hope...

Brace yourselves, there’s a lot of ground to cover. Now I know we say this in a lot of our episodes, but this month’s topic has been one of our most requested topics to discuss since we started the podcast in May 2019. It is also quite a taboo subject across multiple generations in our respective communities, and if you haven’t guessed it - we’re talking about Financial Literacy in the South Pacif...

This topic was initially recommended to us in May 2019 with the original tweet from @Zahratonin stating “Brown girls should not have to decide between leaving their families for independence or compromising their happiness to appease their families.” WOW, this is such a loaded statement not just for Pasifika, but also maybe even cultures that have strong religious beliefs with traditionally conser...

Surprise! 2 Brownish Girls has been renewed for another season (haha)  Today for our January 2022 episode, we’re absolutely stoked to have Sione Sisifa here today - the Director of Shotcaller Studio @shotcallerstudio who recently released the pilot for his self-funded show ‘Liana’ @lianatheshow on Youtube in December 2021. The man of many beanies, Sione, joins us to discuss his journey as par...

Hello hello hello… we have finally made it here..our dedicated and loyal 2 Brownish Girls listeners, it is the last episode of Season 3 of the 2 Brownish Girls Podcast, it’s your favourite girls from their respective areas, I mean maybe we’re not your favourite girls from the area but we hope we’re up there! Today we’ll be talking about the year that was 2021 for our own version of Spotify Wrapped...

For our November episode, we’re honoured to be joined by an amazing guest, who is Australia’s first Pasifika Professor - being the Professor and Chair of Social Work and Policy Studies in the Sydney School of Education and Social Work at The University of Sydney. We talk all things Pasifika, education, representation, Jioji's passions and how he likes to encourage the Pasifika community in more wa...

**CONTENT WARNING** This episode contains sensitive subject matter in relation to Domestic Violence with a focus on the Australian-Pasifika diaspora and the cis-hetero relationship. The purpose of this month’s episode is to share space with our dear friend Nella, on her experiences as a survivor of domestic violence. As a former pageant Queen, international supermodel, pageant and model coach and...