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Black enough
Manage episode 320582212 series 3281901
Steph Amair is Jamaican/Australian and lives in Melbourne on the lands of the Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung people.
We chat about:
- The Jamaican motto “out of many, one people”
- Waves of colonisation in Jamaica
- Being one of the only POC in town
- “I wasn’t black enough” aka internalised racism
- Talking about race in therapy
- Identifying as ‘purple’
- Cringe race related nicknames that call for hard conversations
- Struggling with your hair growing-up
- We find another Scary Spice
- How race & body image translate into Steph’s ceramics
- The history of jerk chicken.
Further reading: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/brief-history-jamaican-jerk-180976597/
Hosted by: Maria Birch-Morunga and Kate Robinson
Guest: Steph Amair
Music by: Green Twins
Edited by: Maria Birch-Morunga
Special thanks: Footscray Community Arts, Maribyrnong City Council Community Grants Program, and the Victorian Government through Creative Victoria.
This podcast was recorded on the lands of the Boon Wurrung and Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung peoples of the eastern Kulin Nations.
If you have any questions or feedback you can find us on Instagram @beingbiracialpodcast or send us an email at beingbiracialpodcast@gmail.com
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
39 Episoden
Manage episode 320582212 series 3281901
Steph Amair is Jamaican/Australian and lives in Melbourne on the lands of the Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung people.
We chat about:
- The Jamaican motto “out of many, one people”
- Waves of colonisation in Jamaica
- Being one of the only POC in town
- “I wasn’t black enough” aka internalised racism
- Talking about race in therapy
- Identifying as ‘purple’
- Cringe race related nicknames that call for hard conversations
- Struggling with your hair growing-up
- We find another Scary Spice
- How race & body image translate into Steph’s ceramics
- The history of jerk chicken.
Further reading: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/brief-history-jamaican-jerk-180976597/
Hosted by: Maria Birch-Morunga and Kate Robinson
Guest: Steph Amair
Music by: Green Twins
Edited by: Maria Birch-Morunga
Special thanks: Footscray Community Arts, Maribyrnong City Council Community Grants Program, and the Victorian Government through Creative Victoria.
This podcast was recorded on the lands of the Boon Wurrung and Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung peoples of the eastern Kulin Nations.
If you have any questions or feedback you can find us on Instagram @beingbiracialpodcast or send us an email at beingbiracialpodcast@gmail.com
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
39 Episoden
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