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Diving deep into stories of culture, community and social justice with people living on the Sunshine Coast in Queensland. Music by the brilliant Andrea Kirwin from Peace Run Records. An initiative of the people at Nambour Community Centre.
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Thursday Apr 15, 2021
Thursday Apr 15, 2021
Meet Phuong Nguyen who was born in Hanoi, Vietnam and moved to the Sunshine Coast when she was in Year 10. We discuss friendship, starting school in a new country, identity, internalised racism, mental health and being proud. Phuong has a youtube channel where she shares her Australian journey with friends in Vietnam and now studies Education and Science at the University of Qld.
Thursday Dec 10, 2020
Thursday Dec 10, 2020
Aje has lived, worked and studied across India, Africa, Europe and Australia.
We chat about growing up in Kerala, India in an extended family where Ayurvedic wisdom and medicine from the land was a part of community life.
We talk about health; wellbeing; philosophy; nature as medicine; spiritual elevation; community; family; working in a white dominated culture; prejudice; racism and how to handle it.
Wednesday Sep 23, 2020
Wednesday Sep 23, 2020
We chat about growing up in Brooklyn, at the time the ‘melting pot of the world’, in a Caribbean family - food (smells, markets, street food, flavours, colours, spices), music, high school and family.
‘We are not so different – maybe on the outside, not on the inside’ says Kat.
We talk about racism, white privilege, living on the Sunshine, truth, freedom, hair and body image. Enjoy.