What is the journey of a model/actor from Myanmar look like? What are the advantages and disadvantages of having the beauty and the brain? How does the entertainment industry in Myanmar treat women?
In this episode, Thiri shared her deepest and darkest journey from being only a model to an actress and becoming who she is today, a lifestyle influencer who is not afraid to share her story with her audiences. She has been very vocal about raising awareness and education on mental health, sex education, menstrual justice, and beyond. She is self-reflective and takes accountability for her position of being born into a privileged family but she was also struggling to understand her mother's depression after the loss of the child.
We talk about career, mental health, sex education, patriarchy, and beauty standards in this episode.
Speaker Bio: Tea talk with Thiri Soe a lifestyle influencer who’s promoting mental health awareness in her community. Her career started as an actor/model but she finally found herself as an interest big sister to her community.
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"I deal with bullies by laughing at mean things they said or commented. It usually makes them stop coz they couldn't achieve what they want to do on my wall."
Phyo Pa Pa Aung is a beauty blogger, a cat lover, a foodie, and a feminist who enjoys being single and taking care of her well-being as much as working full-time.
In this episode, she shares her thoughts on feminism, skincare, youth, and career, as well as the joy of being on your own and not having to depend on anyone else for your emotional well-being.
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"To fix the problem, we need to work at the micro-level by endorsing the policies, by changing the narratives, and at the individual level by having the dialogues on dignified menstruation. And the dialogues have to start by men too." -Radha Paudel
Radha Paudel is a Nurse, Author, Activist, and Founder of Global South Coalition for Dignified Menstruation (GSCDM). The campaign of Dignified Menstruation is moving forward through 8 different chapters namely Australia, Philippines, Indonesia, Sri Lanka, Uk, Uganda, and North America Chapter. She is the initiator to mark International Dignified Menstruation day for 8 December as a day of 16 days of Activism and also working for the three days (December 8-10) International Workshop on Dignified Menstruation along with the Ministry of Women, Children and Senior Citizen, Government of Nepal.
In this episode, Radha talks about the importance of having dialogues around dignified menstruation from an individual level to a political level, and while doing that, it is equally important to avoid using vague language that can diminish the value of the menstrual issue.
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“The celebration of Identity is interconnected to the sustainability of communities, cultural diversity, language, and ultimately the celebration of self.” - Cassandra
In this episode, Cassandra talks about her inwards and outwards struggles of being an indigenous person in Canada. She gives us a brief history of Anishinaabe while explaining the importance of sustaining identity. Connecting with your ancestors means connecting yourself. Listen to the conversation to hear the other side of the coin.
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Cassandra Spade is a human rights, and language rights activist from Mishkeegogamang First Nation, Canada. She has recently completed a B. A from the University of Manitoba and is currently enrolled in Community Economic and Social Development at Algoma University. Her advocacy involves but is not limited to, the acknowledgment of Indigenous land-based education, the recognition of Indigenous languages as a human right, developing the accessibility of education to Northern Indigenous communities, and suicide prevention awareness. Her work continues to focus on creating safe spaces to connect Indigenous Youth to their language, identity, and culture.
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"Consent needs to be explicit and cannot and should not be influenced or negotiated. Without consent, sexual activity (including oral sex, genital touching, and vaginal or anal penetration) is sexual assault or rape." Anukriti Kunwar
"Asking for what we want and saying no to what we don't want is a direct rebellion to patriarchy."- Anugya Kunwar
What is consent and what is NOT consent? How do we build a consent culture? In this discussion, we have two activists from Nepal, Anugya & Anukriti, sharing their knowledge and experiences with working on research and projects on pleasure, consent, and sex education.
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Anukriti Kunwar (she/her) is a Senior International Studies Major at Centre College, Kentucky. Anukriti co-founded a self-initiated project called "let's talk about pleasure" at her college. Through the project, she co-facilitated a three-day workshop on purity culture, hookup culture, vulva anatomy, and pleasure activism. Her areas of interest lie in pleasure activism, advocating for Human Rights, especially for communities marginalized by their gender, caste, sexual orientation, and race.
Anugya Kunwar (she/ her) is a feminist pleasure activist who recently graduated with a Bachelors's degree in Politics, Philosophy, and Economics with a minor in Gender Studies. Her digital advocacy project for CHOICE, 'Pleasure Activism' strives to create a safe and informational sex-positive space for youths to openly talk and learn about their sexuality and pleasure. It also pushes for pleasure-based comprehensive sexuality education in Nepal.
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"I want to tell the men that instead of saying feminism is fake and all, first, try and LISTEN to these women."
Asmita is a feminist and digital content creator. she creates and shares her thoughts on feminism, female sexuality, and many other topics related to women via Wabi.Sabi. Society Instagram Page with over 38k followers.
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"I wanted to create safe spaces for young girls so that they can talk about their struggles, fears, and anything they want. "
Tata Diko Duku Tikaya (aka) Tata is an activist for women’s rights and spoken word artist and member of youth movements that use art to unite and preach peace in South Sudan. She was nominated for Sout al-Salaam (Sound of Peace) 2019 Awards, People’s Choice Category.
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"Most of us wants to be valid and acknowledge, some of us just don't wanna admit it."
Why is it important to acknowledge and appreciate the contributions of young people or any individual in society? It is the best and free way of making them do more of what they are doing. In this episode, I talked about how small compliments, appreciation, and acknowledgment have shaped me. Compliments and feedbacks are like vitamins for me. It is a good force that keeps you going, too.
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"We need to imagine a different world- an equal and just world. For that to happen, we need to raise our sons and daughters differently."
Why do we make boys think that being a man means being tough and do not show emotions? This is so dehumanizing. We raise girls to please men and the circle never ends if we don't start from us. It must start with you and me and parents who are raising girls and boys. We have to raise them as human beings with full potential who can be kind, loving, but also assertive and strong.
In this episode, I read the third sections from Why We Should All Be Feminists by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie in Myanmar language. Hope this will expand our thinking to act differently.
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"The higher you go, the fewer women there are."
Why do you it is difficult for women to get to the leadership position? Is it because of the stereotyping thinkings like women aren't qualified enough or is because of gender discrimination? How can we normalized female leadership?
Listen to this podcast where I read a section from Chimaman Ngozi Adichie's essay, Why We Should All Be Feminists and reflect on my personal story and how our country, Myanmar, treat its female leaders.
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I did some readings from the Myanmar translations of Why We Should All Be Feminists and discussed how I learned the word feminism myself.
Where did you learn the word feminist from? How did you react to it when you first heard it? Do you define yourself as a feminist? Why & Why not?
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"I have made it very clear that if standing up for social justice and equality means letting go of my identity as a Nepali, I am not afraid to do so. I defined my own identity and I don't wanna belong to a community or ethnic group where demeaning and damaging women's self-esteem and lives are taken as pride. I wanna belong to a society where women are not discriminated against because they bleed. Because everyone deserves to bleed with dignity."
In this first episode, I spoke about the specific social taboo that led me to start my activism. It is menstrual taboo in my community. I shared about what such harmful practices did to me when I was young why we need to stop treating girls like that. I felt excluded from my own community for standing against it but despite, I continued doing it. I am not a shero but a woman that is hungry for justice and equality. What is your story? What injustice made you stand up for justice? How long have you been doing? Do you also feel excluded from your own community?
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"I think another problem with pop-culture is that we think only people with experiences are smart which s not necessarily wrong. But if we only hire people based on experiences, it limits the people without experiences to so many levels and that's so wrong."
I never asked for what I really deserve financially coz financial literacy is a taboo in this country. I thought that if I just invested my time and attention to grow my experiences, I will one day deserve the money that gives me basic needs. Slowly, my confidence deteriorated to demand what I deserve deteriot slowly and I never ask for it up until I took the financial literacy class which opened my eyes. From then on, I realized my worth and value, intellectually and financially enough to make a demand so that I can be self-sufficient. Here, I talk about the link between, self-efficacy and self-sufficiency to show the significant connection they have.
"pop culture ရဲ့ အားနည်းချက်နောက်တစ်ခုက အတွေ့အကြုံရှိမှ တော်တယ်လို့ ထင်တာပဲ။ ဒါက လုပ်ဝ မှားတဲ့ အရာမဟုတ်ပေမဲ့ အတွေ့အကြုံရှိမှ လူတစ်ယောက်ကို အလုပ်ခန့်မယ်၊အလုပ်ပေးမယ်ဆိုရင် အတွေ့အကြုံမရှိတဲ့သူတစ်ယောက်အတွက်က လမ်းတွေ ပိတ်သွားနိုင်တယ်။"
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Love?
I grew up believing that love is something a woman's job to give and a man's job to receive it.
In this episode, I spoke with my boyfriend, Umesh about our relationship, how he learned to be a feminist to love, and to question the society. I hope this is useful, especially, for young boys.
His quote,
“I think a lot of boys and man are fearful to become a feminist because they presumed that feminism will take away their manliness. To those, I would like to assure you by saying that I was a man before knowing feminism and now with feminism in me, I become a better and useful man for the whole society as well as the next generation.”
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What is it like to be a feminist filmmaker in the Myanmar industry?
"I'd like young people to think critically about their career choices if they really want or can do it for the rest of their life before they make the commitment. You don't have to do it forever but just for the thought experiment, it is important you think through it so that you can be ready for failures/challenges."
Listen to AJ talks about her journey as a singer and a documentary filmmaker. I spoke with AJ to understand how she becomes both a singer and a filmmaker.
AJ short bio:
Listen to AJ talks about her journey as a singer and a documentary filmmaker. I spoke with AJ to understand how she becomes both a singer and a filmmaker.c and Film Production. She is a strong advocate of youth empowerment, women’s rights, and peacebuilding. AJ has produced several films on these topics. She has done organizing Youth media summit and also done several courses on digital video editing, photography, film, and media courses including a Diploma in Marketing and currently working on her 5th year Law.
" Trying to fit into the "good enough body" that society set up for us was very tiring and sad."
What does really society want from women's bodies? Perfection? What does that perfection look like?
Feminists! How is the relationship between them and their bodies? What did they hear about their bodies growing up? Is it a happy body? Did they have to please society? These are the questions we answered during this discussion - Feminists & Their Bodies.
This conversation is between feminist activist Ma Nandar & fellow feminist Phoo Myat Thwe. They shared about their personal life and what was it like to grow up as a thin girl for Nandar and as a fat girl for Phoo in Myanmar.
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WELCOME TO FEMINIST TALKS WITH NANDAR
I am Nandar from a small village in Northern Shan State, Myanmar. I have been working and living as a feminist for so long that now I want to make podcast about it. This platform is made to share my opinions and experiences as a young feminist living in Myanmar. You will hear me talking about frustrations, joy, sadness, love, culture, literature, and traumas from a feminist's perspective.
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