Episode 5: Ruqxana Vasanwala is Engineering Magic
Brown Girl in the Ring Podcast
Release Date: 01/11/2019
Episode 26: Amritha Shakti on Self Love as Radical Activism
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Amritha Shakti is shaping her own path one song at a time. By tapping into her musicality and vision to explore identity and belonging she is putting into place a new way of being as a young woman of Australian-Indian Tamil background.
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Episode 25: Grace Dlabik on Following Your Vision
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Grace Dlabik is the creative and visionary force behind BE Collective Culture and BE One Creative; a space for expression by young free thinkers.
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Episode 24: Rashmi Patel Writes for Representation
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Rashmi Patel grew up reading Russian fairy tales and surrounded by a community of scientists. Today she spends her time working as a business analyst and honing her craft as a writer.
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Episode 23: Allira Potter Reclaims her Independence
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Allira Potter is a proud Yorta Yorta woman who is creating her own path with intention. Allira has started her own creative business, she’s an ambassador, and model; all while finishing her university studies in media and communications.
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Rewind: Sydney is Cancelled Creates Space
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We’re rewinding the Brown Girl Pod Catalogue to Season 1 when we recorded a special bonus episode with Sydney is Cancelled.
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Episode 22: Gerii Pleitez on Writing Your Own Way
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Gerii Pleitez is a writer and creative on a mission. Today we sit down to chat about her creative process for writing her first booking and launching Kara Sevda Press, what it means to write your story honestly, and how she navigates being a third culture adult.
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Episode 21: Pey Chi Finds Her Strength in Creativity
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Pey Chi is a graphic designer and ceramicist based in Melbourne. She's created a colourful world for herself where happiness is the order of the day as she navigates life with her adorable sidekick Booster. Her illustrations immediately transform you into a joyful space and her characters give us permission to exist within this space by just being ourselves.
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Episode 20: Asha de Vos and the Joy of Being Vulnerable
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Asha de Vos is a marine biologist who has travelled across oceans pioneering blue whale research with Oceanswell, an organisation she founded to promote marine conservation around her island home of Sri Lanka.
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Episode 19: Mounica Tata and Drawing out the Issues
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Mounica Tata is an illustrator and cartoonist who creates funny, quirky, and insightful drawings about serious topics. As a self-taught illustrator she unpacks pop culture and taboo topics like a journalist and delivers them with an illustrator's eye. We chat about her creative path, issues facing her as a feminist in India, and what drives her to keep creating.
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Episode 18: Kristy Dickinson on Handcrafting her Purpose
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Kristy Dickinson is the creative and business genius behind Haus of Dizzy. She describes her line of hand made jewellery, conversation starters; ways to share your values and identity.
info_outlineWhen Ruqxana Vasanwala decided to become an engineer it was a feminist act.
Why couldn’t she do the same thing that the boys in her class were encouraged to do?
In episode five of Brown Girl Pod we chat with Ruqxana, owner and creator of Cookery Magic (@cookerymagic) - an enterprise she set-up over fifteen years ago following a life changing trip to Japan.
We sat down in her big verandah on a balmy afternoon after taking one of her cooking classes. You’ll hear the gentle patter of the rain, birds, and nearby traffic, but don’t let that distract you. Ruqxana epitomises the definition of reinvention and making a go of a new opportunity.
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