Tubes & tantrums. Safiyyah (27) and Katya (53) don’t want kids, and they’ve made sure of it. We talked about how a Reddit thread lead to Safiyyah getting her tubes removed at 25. We talked about Katya getting a hysterectomy at 30. They’ve both been living their best lives ever since.We talked about how some mums don’t look like they're having fun, familial, societal and gendered pressure especially as Black and Latina women, children being seen as an accomplishment, and remixin...
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Tubes & tantrums. Safiyyah (27) and Katya (53) don’t want kids, and they’ve made sure of it. We talked about how a Reddit thread lead to Safiyyah getting her tubes removed at 25. We talked about Katya getting a hysterectomy at 30. They’ve both been living their best lives ever since.We talked about how some mums don’t look like they're having fun, familial, societal and gendered pressure especially as Black and Latina women, children being seen as an accomplishment, and remixin...
Subtleties of Desirability with Sangeetha Thanapal
The Subtlety of It
1 hour 14 minutes
5 years ago
Subtleties of Desirability with Sangeetha Thanapal
Fatphobia, colourism & Lizzo.In the Season 2 finale, Sangeetha and I discuss desirability. We talk about Lizzo’s infinite lung capacity, the importance of understanding fatphobia as structural oppression, why conversations about colourism barely go anywhere, the marriage market, Indian Matchmaking, the white-washing of the body positivity movement, skin lightening creams, the erasure of Brown skinned and South Asians from Asian narratives, racism in Singapore, health as a moral good, bein...
The Subtlety of It
Tubes & tantrums. Safiyyah (27) and Katya (53) don’t want kids, and they’ve made sure of it. We talked about how a Reddit thread lead to Safiyyah getting her tubes removed at 25. We talked about Katya getting a hysterectomy at 30. They’ve both been living their best lives ever since.We talked about how some mums don’t look like they're having fun, familial, societal and gendered pressure especially as Black and Latina women, children being seen as an accomplishment, and remixin...
