Subtleties of Stealing From Black People with Samira

Extraction & erasure. It’s the season 3 finale!! Black African music, art and language are co-opted and stolen globally - from Tik Tok to the DJ scene to dance to activism. I chat with Samira about being a Black African creative in Australia. We discuss what it means to extract Black talent, labo…

Subtleties of Therapy with The Tena Therapist

Family & fragility. Tigist Kebede (@thetenatherapist) is a therapist based in Naarm (Melbourne). Friends, it’s been a tough few years in the panasonic and life in general, whew! Therapy is something I’m very grateful for. Tigist and I talk about everything from decolonising therapy to seeing your c…

Subtleties of Working For Free with Elsa Tuet-Rosenberg

Rest & remuneration. Elsa and I tackle some big questions about working in this episode. We talk about class, doing less, the wildness that occurs in the not-for-profit sector, anti-capitalist strategies in this v capitalist world, paying people for their labour, the ethics of making money doing so…

Subtleties of Being in a Sorority

Hotness & hierarchies. We’re diving into the very blonde and sometimes strange world of sororities and Greek life. Sara and Nickie gave us some juicy intel on what actually goes in during rush (recruitment). We talked about whether you need to be hot to be selected, what sororities actually do, th…

Subtleties of Passport Privilege with Dilpreet

Class & chai. So many conversations about identity politics are about living in the West. Voices from the Global South get erased far too often, and there are countless folks there who are doing IT! Dilpreet and I zoom in on India in this conversation.   We talk about how the first world is a scam…

Subtleties of Bla[c]k Solidarity with Eugenia Flynn

Land & language. Eugenia Flynn and I talk about how we will not succeed in doing racial justice and solidarity work without centring Indigenous people, how it’s become cool to be in solidarity with Bla(c)k people, the beautiful and powerful intertwining of Bla(c)kness and Indigenity in so-called Au…

Subtleties of Dating While Black

Apps & apprehension. Two podcast faves, Ayman (Subtleties of Male Vulnerability) and Adj (Subtleties of Shutting Up), are back, and we’re delving into the world of dating while Black! We discuss the difference between dating and dates, whether ethnic filtering on dating apps is problematic, the ro…

Subtleties of Getting Plastic Surgery

Black & botched. Last year, Princess got a nose job in South Korea and let’s just say the surgery did not go to plan.  We break down what an 'ethnic rhinoplasty' is, discuss living as a Black woman in South Korea, regret, how her friends reacted to her getting a nose job, not telling family, shady…

Subtleties of Not Drinking

Mocktails & mental breakdowns. Awura Abena doesn’t drink and we don’t really know why. In this ep, we get to the bottom of it.  We chat about never being drunk before, being the sober friend throughout your teens and twenties, hating parties, being perceived as boring and judgemental, why goon sac…

Subtleties of Getting Married Young

Rings & religion. Huda and Katie both got married in their early 20s. We talked about not wanting people to know you’re married, Bridgerton, divorce, fear of doing too many dishes, marriage & dating in a Muslim Pakistani community & a white Evangelical christian community, pressure to get married,…