What does it mean to understand the personal and political as truly intertwined? 

To know and to understand that the wins, griefs, losses, day-to-days and dreams of our lives are all shaped by political infrastructures? 

And how can this knowing transform how we live our lives?

On today’s show, Samantha Haran is in conversation with Lebanese writer Sheree Joseph about her new memoir, Juicy: How to Live a Life in the Wreckage of Expectations. This memoir takes us on a journey through Sheree’s own reckoning with being unable to fulfil what she thought was expected of her by her mid 30s: a husband, motherhood, children, a home, a neat plan. Coming to terms with these expectations-lost required her to re-think everything about what it means to live a meaningful life. Together, Samantha and Sheree talk through how Sheree has been reconceiving everything from motherhood to writing to grief, and finding a new paradigm for how to live in this ever-changing, ever-heartbreaking - but also, ever-beautiful - world.

Buy Sheree Joseph’s memoir, Juicy: How to Live a Life in the Wreckage of Expectations

Follow Sheree on instagram: @shereewriter 

What does it mean to understand the personal and political as truly intertwined?&nbsp;
To know and to understand that the wins, griefs, losses, day-to-days and dreams of our lives are all shaped by political infrastructures?&nbsp;
And how can this knowing transform how we live our lives?
On today&rsquo;s show, Samantha Haran is in conversation with Lebanese writer Sheree Joseph about her new memoir,&nbsp;Juicy: How to Live a Life in the Wreckage of Expectations. This memoir takes us on a journey through Sheree&rsquo;s own reckoning with being unable to fulfil what she thought was expected of her by her mid 30s: a husband, motherhood, children, a home, a neat plan. Coming to terms with these expectations-lost required her to re-think everything about what it means to live a meaningful life. Together, Samantha and Sheree talk through how Sheree has been reconceiving everything from motherhood to writing to grief, and finding a new paradigm for how to live in this ever-changing, ever-heartbreaking - but also, ever-beautiful - world.
<a href="https://publishing.hardiegrant.com/en-au/books/juicy-by-sheree-joseph/9780645858136">Buy Sheree Joseph&rsquo;s memoir,&nbsp;Juicy: How to Live a Life in the Wreckage of Expectations</a>
Follow Sheree on instagram: @<a href="https://instagram.com/shereewriter">shereewriter</a>&nbsp;

Race Matters is an anti-racist show that explores the values and complexities of race, culture and identity. In-depth interviews and unique story telling and spanning arts, music, politics, global and local events, plus experimental audio and community takeovers.

Listen back to all our episodes on fbi.radio including radio exclusives, and stay up to date on our instagram 

Listen to our Solidarity Syndicate series - sharing across airwaves and borders and our Liquid Homelands series - an experimental, queer audio offering

We honor all hosts, producers, storytellers that have made this work possible as well as the long tradition of storytelling, resistance and resilience that has taken place on Gadigal Country, where fbi.radio broadcasts out of.  

Our logo design by Jessica Mulet, our theme songs was composed by Mateo Baskaran 

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Race Matters is an anti-racist&nbsp;show that explores the values and complexities of race, culture and identity. In-depth interviews and unique story telling and spanning arts, music, politics, global and local events, plus experimental audio and community takeovers.
Listen back to <a href="https://www.fbi.radio/programs/race-matters">all our episodes on fbi.radio</a> including radio exclusives, and stay up to date on our&nbsp;<a href="https://www.instagram.com/race_matters/">instagram</a>&nbsp;
<a href="https://soundcloud.com/fbiradiosydney/sets/race-matters-sol-dar-ty-synd">Listen to our Solidarity Syndicate series</a> - sharing across airwaves and borders and our&nbsp;<a href="https://soundcloud.com/fbiradiosydney/sets/racematters_liquid-homelands">Liquid Homelands</a> series - an experimental, queer audio offering
We honor all hosts, producers, storytellers that have made this work possible as well as the long tradition of storytelling, resistance and resilience that has taken place on Gadigal Country, where fbi.radio broadcasts out of.&nbsp;&nbsp;
Our logo design by Jessica Mulet, our theme songs was composed by Mateo Baskaran&nbsp;
Race Matters is made possible thanks to the&nbsp;<a href="https://cbf.org.au/">Community Broadcasting Foundation</a>

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