Uncultured the Podcast
Why isn't there a brown Friends character? Should we give hate speech a platform? Am I being fetishised? and other qualms with Kripa 🤷🏾♀️ Together we'll figure out why we've grown up with so much culture and turned into totally UNCULTURED ADULTS.
Episodes
WHEEOOOPPP this episode we're joined by the supremely fab Natasha Lama aka 'Brown Girl Sexology'. She's a content creator whose work is all about celebrating our bodies, embracing our sexuality, and prioritising pleasure.Â
Earlier this year, she came out to talk about her herpes diagnosis in her quest to smash the stigma. I sat down with her to talk about her journey, the shitty stigma against STIs, and...
We're back after a well-needed season break, sniffly nose and all. This episode we dive into my experience in a bhangra team over 5 years ago: wait was I in a cult? All the shittiness surrounding my bhangra horror story explored, plus we delve into YOUR stories that you shared on Instagram - classical dance, Bollywood, the whole shebang.
For many of us, dance is the only thing keeping us connected to our culture. But...
This week is a heavy one so I'm starting it with a content warning!Â
CW: sexual assault, rape, sexual harassment + violence - all of which are described in graphic detail.Â
During her time in law and politics in the 2010s, Indian-Australian Dhanya alleged two separate instances of sexual assault at the hands of senior members of her workplace. We sit down today for a raw conversation; discussing the incident ...
Love Island Australia's Ari Kumar is strong, independent, and does whatever she wants. It started with moving out of home at 18, travelling, moving to Australia from New Zealand, and more recently - hopping on national TV to look for love. We sit down to talk about sex positivity and embracing your sexuality as a brown person, normalising cosmetic surgery, and looking for love in your 20s on a show where she was one of the ver...
Okay people. It's time for a group self reflection sesh. Why do we look at diversity in the corporate world, in sports, on screen - but conveniently turn a blind eye to our individual preferences when it comes to dating??? Is it because dating is a touchy topic and 'we can't help who we like'? I've narrowed it all down and spoiler alert - yeah we're kinda racist. So what do we do about it?
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IT'S EPISODE 3 OF ARE THE AUNTIES LISTENING AND OUR FIRST EPISODE OF THE NEW YEAR BITCHESSSSS. Priya moved to Singapore for 2 months! Kripa started stand up comedy! Kripa started a podcast during a pandemic and Priya shares her life with 1.2 MILLION followers on TikTok. We both still make so many decisions we're scared of but the best ones? They're based on pure passion baby.Â
*This episode is sponsored by N...
How does being adopted out of your culture alter your sense of identity? Powerhouse @ruchipage talked about her life with so much candidness and vulnerability, going into her journey where she channelled her experience into modelling. Ruchi was born in Calcutta and adopted as a baby by white Australian parents. We talk about cultural identity, whether she's curious about her birth parents, how her adopted parents supported her...
This week's episode is a 1 hour rant on the biggest thing in this week's pop culture news cycle: Brooke Blurton, Australia's first Indigenous, pansexual Bachelorette, her close friend Abbie Chatfield, and how Abbie 'hard-launching' her relationship came at the expense of entire communities of First Nations people, people of colour, and the LGBTQIA+ community. Heads up, this isn't an episode vilifying A...
Content Warning: domestic violence, murder.Â
After his sister's murder in 2015, Tarang works tirelessly as an activist, anti-violence campaigner and mental health advocate to ensure there is #notonemoreniki. Tarang has gone through more than the average person would in 10 lifetimes, yet has mobilised a movement towards eliminating gender based violence, racism, and general internet douche-baggery. Despite his heavy s...
Maria Thattil joins us this episode, she's a speaker, writer, advocate, and ... Miss Universe Australia. Maria doesn't mirror the 'blonde beach waves' bombshell Australian stereotype - she's Indian-Australian, with darker skin and she wouldn't meet the height requirements in many countries for Miss Universe. She's changed the game in beauty - why SHOULD her height or skin colour stop her from bein...
This week we sit down with Influencer Nawal Sari, Instagram phenomenon, activist, modest fashion advocate, and model! We talk about her decision to wear the hijab at 15 and how it changed her perspective on fashion, what needs to change in representation and how she expresses herself as a mixed race hijabi woman. Tune in now!
****This episode is sponsored by Chit Chaat. Are you bored of having the same desi food at every e...
Episode 2 of Are the Aunties Listening? is LIVE with @himynameispriya and Kripa from @unculturedpod. This episode we talk about the tragic but wildly viral murder of influencer Gabby Petito, the blunder made by Priyanka Chopra, Usher and Julianne Hough for being judges on a super problematic reality TV show, and we end the episode with a rant on hair removal and WHY WE NEED TO STOP TELLING PEOPLE WHAT TO DO WITH THEIR BODIES! If yo...
Influencer and content creator Rowi Singh joins us this week and I'm still pinching myself. We talked growing up Indian in Australia, Singapore & America, how she became secure in her cultural identity, feeling less brown for not knowing her mother tongue, why brown women are expected to dress modestly, Rowi's relationship with colour, and some JUIIICYY wedding goss. Tune in for the best time!Â
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There's a lot more than meets the eye to Australian Sri Lankan Logie Award winning, ABC Utopia actor, "I'm a Celebrity get me out of here" contestant and renowned comedian Dilruk. When getting fired from accounting firm KPMG at the beginning of his career launched him into the world of comedy, Dil had no idea how high his backpacker gigs would take him. At 125kg in 2018, he took control of his life and health an...
IT'S THE FIRST EPISODE OF ARE THE AUNTIES LISTENING!Â
Tiktok sensation Priya Sharma (@himynameispriya) is co-hosting the Are the Aunties Listening podcast with Uncultured's host Kripa! Tune in every second week for a bit of gossip to even out the seriousness. We're just chatting shit for an hour, so OF COURSE YOU'LL JOIN! We read your nightmare dating stories and explore everything there is about online...
This week we sit down with the amazing Yamuna Shivananda from @saffron_weddings, Australia's biggest South Asian wedding directory. We talk strict parents, unlearning this moral superiority complex some of us might have grown up with, the different treatment of siblings based on gender, parents living vicariously through their kids and how marriage opened Yamuna's eyes up to freedom. TUNE IN!Â
CW: mentions of su*...
I sat down with funny man Neel this week! We talked about his meteoric rise to fame on the internet, whether political correctness has a place in comedy, why the diversity checkbox can sometimes be demeaning, and advice to comedians entering the scene.
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TW: this episode contains mentions of abortion and pregnancy
This week we sit down with Pria Camilla Shiam, who saw two lines on her pregnancy test at the young age of 19. Today, Pria is the mother to her beautiful 3 year old son, is a dancer, singer, gone through a wedding, marriage, a divorce, university, moving cities - all while being the best mum to Jahaan. Tune in for her story.Â
This week's episode is a SOLO one and it's more ~intimate~ than ever. Kripa talks about her first period, we deep dive into the menstrual taboo in South Asia, and we react to some of the wild period stories you guys sent through on Instagram. Woop woop!Â
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Masterchef's Depinder Chhibber joins Uncultured this week to talk about her journey. We talk about how food is such an integral part of culture, her favourite food travel adventure, what it was like on the set of Masterchef and what's in store for her coming up!
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