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City babes might be up and trending on social media, but IRL, are we as cutthroat when it comes to who and how we are dating? Hear from our guests Maria Pearly, Faith Alyward, alongside your regular hosts Rhona Ezuma and DJ Tryb.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Womxnhood - a chessboard game of finding personhood through manoeuvring sisterhood, daughterhood, respectability politics, and academic excellence...Nigerian edition! Who’s ready to play? Hear from our guests Maria Pearly, Faith Alyward, alongside your regular hosts Rhona Ezuma and DJ Tryb.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Newsflash! Nigeria is a country made of 371 different tribes, it is not a monolith. With so many traditions intermingling among us, which do we want to retain, and which to let go? Hear from our guests Maria Pearly, Faith Alyward, alongside your regular hosts Rhona Ezuma and DJ Tryb.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The ancestors are calling us! We’re talking touching down on the tarmac, and what our trips back to Nigeria have been like. Hear from our guests Pelumi Nubi, Choe Filani, alongside your regular hosts Rhona Ezuma and DJ Tryb.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Look, we are no strangers to the proverb ‘be humble, stay blessed’, but on this episode we stay gluttonously-proud recounting our list of Nigerian superstars. Hear from our guests Pelumi Nubi, Choe Filani, alongside your regular hosts Rhona Ezuma and DJ Tryb.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

From its music, to dance, books and food, Nigeria has a lot to offer when it comes to culture; but which have had the deepest impacts on us as Nigerians? Hear from our guests Pelumi Nubi, Choe Filani, alongside your regular hosts Rhona Ezuma and DJ Tryb.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Through unfiltered chat and proud cackle, a roundtable of Nigerian-British women and non-binary folk explore the magic and madness of their shared heritage, and how it has informed the lives they live today, and hopes for tomorrow. Hear from our guests Pelumi Nubi, Choe Filani, Maria Pearly, Faith Alyward, alongside your regular hosts Rhona Ezuma and DJ Tryb. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy...

5/8ths East Asian Claire Yurika Davis explores lineage and belonging with us, and maps out how she accesses her Jamaican Japanese heritage through her creative direction and cooking.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

You are allowed only one utensil for the rest of eternity - spoon, or chopsticks? Honestly, what else is there to talk about! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

A game of Where's Wally? in which we try to locate all the hard-to-ID half East Asians amidst all visual media ever – but relax, because Keanu Reeves is the first one we found. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Look… We all are, and want to be, fetishised – but only in very specific ways thank you very much. Dm to get details at +44 0746£ ;)* "/@ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Which half of us is more East Asian? And when did the influences come in? Turns out it’s not so easy to trace. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Turns out every guest on this show is some sort of a high achiever, but is that selection bias, or have we scientifically proven this stereotype? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Non-stop apologies to family members on this episode as we recall the cultural idiosyncrasies coming through the differences between our mums, dads, and siblings. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Through raucous and poignant discussions, a group of half East Asian, half white friends connect more deeply with each other and explore new ways to live their identities. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Beyond the accumulation of financial assets, what does the word ‘wealth’ mean to us now?  Guest host Nikita Vervelde is business leader and advisor known for challenging leadership teams and driving incubator and accelerator programmes addressing societal problems such as homelessness, mental health, wellbeing, reimagining the education system and environmental sustainability issues. Hosted o...

Hosts Daniela and Rhona explore the experiences of POC students and staff in higher education and what we wish we’d have learnt during Uni. Speaking with guest Kareem Samara in the studio about GARA, Goldsmith Anti Racist Action, finding out what the 4.5 month occupation of Deptford townhall was all about and what is happening since. Kareem Samara is a multi-instrumentalist, improviser, composer a...

How does access and privilege play into a person’s ability to gain this important life skill, and is the swimwear industry catering adequately to different types of bodies? This is a special episode as we feature our friends from the fantastic podcast - On the Outside who have diverse views on outdoors news, produced by the lovely ​​Francesca Turauskis. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for m...

Language can be a tool, a creative expression, even a therapeutic method. Plunging into the fluidity of language in this episode, we will hear poetry by Thành Trần, and also give practical advice in speaking with second language speakers.  Thành is a London based Vietnamese artist who engages in visual communication through animation, photography and tattoos. He also finds inspiration in lite...

A practical guide to boycotting monopolies from within the creative industries. Co-hosted with Aaron Moritz and Shawn Vulliez from Srsly Wrong, a utopian leftist comedy podcast. Is it worse to work on a recruitment advert for the US military than for the New Zealand military? Staring down job offers from Amazon studios versus Marvel (owned by Disney)? With a foot in the toxic wheel of advertising/...

Cultural appropriation is the act of a dominant culture taking aspects of a culture that is not their own and utilising it in some way for their own expression or benefit. On this episode we will be considering how the conversation around cultural appropriation has expanded over time, and asking the question of where the line between cultural appropriation and appreciation lies.  Hosted on Ac...

With the uptake of the vaccines being low among the black and other racialised communities in the UK, we ask the question why? Shining light on some of the historical medical misgivings and modern healthcare inequalities which have set the stage for hesitancy, we take a deeper look at the situation of the present. Question include - how has the vaccine been produced so quickly? Were there people o...

Mr Darcy, Edward Cullen, Nick Young are just a few of names of the men that stole the hearts of many young readers. These fictional crushes are often unrealistic, and at times problematic. On this episode, the hosts and Kosi Reni Amayo, author and founder of Onwe - an independent publisher based in the UK, dive deep into tropes in media, and ponder how these have shaped our views of gender perform...

Cancel culture is an ever provocative term and hot topic. There is a lot of fear surrounding 'being canceled' but who are the odds really stacked against? On this episode we explore how we hold people and organisations accountable, and separate the art from the artist.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The arts industry is one of those sectors that relies on human interaction, whether it is to experience a live theatre performance, music in a venue or at a festival or even just popping into a gallery. So what happens when all those spaces disappear or at best become socially distanced. Max Golfar works for Hootananny the venue in birxton as Music & Events Manager, he is a working DJ under th...