Divorcing While Brown - The Divorce Dilemma
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Remember the movie Crazy Rich Asians? Well, South Asian weddings are just as crazy irrespective of the riches. In the South Asian culture a woman's whole life revolves around her wedding. As a young child she'll watch Bollywood movies about love, sprinkled with toe tapping music, lots of fancy clothing and grand celebrations of marriage. She'll be expected to help with household chores from very early on in preparation for life after marriage. At the first sign of protest moms are always ready with the infamous line - "Agar ab nai hora, tho shaadi kay baad kya karogi?" At 15 years old if she...
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There Is Power In Your Vote!
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Are South Asian women left out of political conversations or is it willful ignorance? When was the last time you had a discussion about a policy, politician or political party with your husband, daughter, brother, sister? Where did you learn political engagement? Do you care about politics? Should we care? These are some of the questions we will be discussing in today's episode. Growing up with immigrant parents is a vastly different experience in comparison to the average American predominantly Caucasian or African American household. I dont remeber my mom or aunts every having...
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The India Pakistan Partition & The Need for a New Narrative
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In August 1947 when India finally won its independence from the British Raj after a struggle of almost 300 years. It left in it's wake a nation divided into two states: Hindu majority India & Muslim majority Pakistan. Immediately, there began one of the greatest migrations in human history & one that is the least discussed in the West. Growing up it was a paragraph in a history book at best. Grossly misrepresenting a monumental crux of the South Asian identity. Across the subcontinent people who had coexisted for centuries attacked each other. Hindus and Sikhs on one side,...
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Trailer Season 2
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Stay tuned. Season 2 is coming soon.
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Pakistan is Experiencing Humanitarian Disaster & We're Going to Help
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Dr. Amna Buttar, Dr. Geet Chainani and Director of Humanitarian Affairs, Sabyn Zaidi, will be going to Pakistan at the end of September to perform emergency disaster relief work. The most emergent needs are tents, food kits, clean water, medical care, mosquito nets. Severe rains and flooding have killed at least 1,300 people, including 348 children since mid-June, officials said on Sunday. At least 50 million people have been affected by the disaster, Pakistan's Minister for Climate Change Sherry Rehman said on Thursday. She called the floods "unprecedented" and "the...
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Episode 13 - Meet an Aurat - Dr. Sadaf
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In this episode the Auraten are in conversation with Dr. Sadaf aka The Savvy Woman's Sex Coach, who is also a board-certified OBGYN, life coach, and sexual counselor in New York, with over 22 years of experience in helping women and adolescent girls with their physical and emotional health issues. She started her social media presence in 2021. And in 2022, Dr. Sadaf kicked off the Muslim Sex Podcast where she talks about sex and other topics important for female health. An OBGYN, mom and Muslim – she talks openly about topics your mom may have never spoken to you about. No shame, no...
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Epsiode 12 - Domestic Abuse and Toxic Masculinity
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Mandeep Kaur, Sania Khan, Noor Mukaddam, Garima Kothari - are women who were victims of intimate partner violence. The hidden cancer of the South Asian community. About 60% of South Asian women report having experienced some for of domestic abuse in their lives. We here at Auraten believe the numbers to be closer to 75-90% due to the nature of problem, the cloak of secrecy and shame attached to reporting these incidents. Mandeep, a 30 yo woman, has left behind multiple videos detailing the abuse her husband, Ranjodhbeer Sandhu, subjected her to for eight years - in the most...
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Episode 11 - Mahaan Auraten
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In today's episode we will be talking to Tejal, a therapist specializing in couples therapy and maternal mental health who is also mom to two young boys about some of the challenges second generation South Asian millennial parents face. As I always say parenting is one huge experiment. We all aspire to be better than the generation before us. But no one actually knows what they're doing. And just when you think you've got it all figured out our kid shows us otherwise.
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Episode 10 - Queer Auraten
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Being queer in a desi family is a tough battle. It can be a tragic, traumatic and isolating experience. Fearing social ostracization parents often respond to their child coming out with choice epletives and rage coupled with shame and guilt for bringing shame to the family. Sometimes the reactions can be violent and extreme in nature; physical abuse, banishment, stopping monetary support for education, etc. Your entire life is spent maneuvering around the potholes of ignorant assumptions or questions and under the weight of other people's morality resulting in total disgust of who you...
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Episode 9 - Sexy Auraten
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In this episode the Auraten will be exploring SEX! It’s one of the most important ways we can get to know ourselves, our sexual selves and desires to own and explore. It’s that hush-hush topic that we could never talk about for ourselves. Our parents never gave us the birds and the bees talk, we were embarrassed to talk about it even with our closest friends and all along, everywhere else, we were getting shame signals and beliefs telling us it’s wrong, scary or dangerous, especially for women. Yet, it’s all around us - in education, movies, shows, laws, economy, relationships,...
info_outlineLoving yourself is at the heart of a successful life. When you love and respect yourself, you take space for yourself to explore your own curiosity, contemplate your thoughts, work through the challenges, celebrate your successes...You automatically respect and welcome that need in another into your life. When people like this come together you encourage that in each other and unknowingly work towards creating a better world.