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  • Introducing Seen: A podcast about the power of being seen

    Introducing Seen: A podcast about the power of being seen
    Feb 21 2023
    If you can see it, you can be it. But what happens when you look around and nobody looks like you? Join host Yumi Stynes for Seen, a new SBS podcast about cultural creatives who rise to excellence in spite of arriving in a role-model vacuum. Trailblazers like writer Yassmin Abdel-Magied, musician Ray Ahn, and Olympian Ellia Green share the transformative moments they felt seen.
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    3 min
  • Narelda Jacobs: Proud Whadjuk Noongar journalist speaking her truth

    Narelda Jacobs: Proud Whadjuk Noongar journalist speaking her truth
    Mar 6 2023
    Narelda Jacobs is a Whadjuk Noongar woman and the first Aboriginal, openly lesbian newsreader on TV in Western Australia. Join Yumi Stynes as the pair reflect on Narelda’s relationships with her parents, coming to terms with her sexuality, forging her career in media and the responsibility she bears as a very visible First Nations media personality.
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    36 min
  • Hannah Diviney: Disability activist & writer shifting the dial on pop culture

    Hannah Diviney: Disability activist & writer shifting the dial on pop culture
    Mar 13 2023
    Growing up, Hannah Diviney was constantly asked what her paralympic sport was going to be. “I would always turn around and be like, see my two sisters over there. How come you're not asking them what their Olympic sport is going to be?” Join Yumi Stynes as the pair discuss why representation is so important, taking on Lizzo, and how Hannah is working to shatter misconceptions about disability.
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    28 min
  • Michael Mohammed Ahmad: Award-winning novelist and playwright reclaiming nuance in representation

    Michael Mohammed Ahmad: Award-winning novelist and playwright reclaiming nuance in representation
    Mar 20 2023
    As a young actor looking to make his mark, Michael Mohammed Ahmad faced one problem, people only wanted to cast him as a drug dealer. Yumi Stynes sits down with Michael Mohammed - novelist, playwright and founder of Sweatshop Western Sydney Literary Movement. We hear about his experiences growing up as a young Muslim Lebanese man in a post-9/11 world, the defining moments that have shaped his career, and how mirroring is key to nuanced representation.
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    31 min
  • Yassmin Abdel-Magied: Writer, social advocate, and cancel culture survivor

    Yassmin Abdel-Magied: Writer, social advocate, and cancel culture survivor
    Mar 27 2023
    Writer, activist and broadcaster Yassmin Abdel-Magied is, for better or worse, one of the most visible women in the Australian media. The negative backlash that followed a couple of social media posts in 2017 left her questioning what she’d done wrong and where she belonged. In this episode of Seen, Yumi Stynes and Yassmin chat about the limitations of the model minority myth, what it’s like to be ‘cancelled' and what moving on looks like.
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    35 min
  • Atong Atem: Internationally renowned artist and writer reframing blackness through art

    Atong Atem: Internationally renowned artist and writer reframing blackness through art
    Apr 3 2023
    Atong Atem’s way of expressing herself has taken the art world by storm. Within a culture that celebrates whiteness, Atong’s futuristic self-portraits celebrate and centre blackness. Yumi Stynes speaks to artist Atong Atem about her experience migrating to Australia, finding community and the weight of hypervisibility as a black woman in today’s world.
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    33 min
  • Ray Ahn: Punk legend from the Hard-Ons with bare-chested bravery

    Ray Ahn: Punk legend from the Hard-Ons with bare-chested bravery
    Apr 10 2023
    Imagine performing shirtless as an Asian male in a room full of neo-Nazi’s? In the height of the punk scene in the 80’s, the Hard-Ons were a force to be reckoned with, defiant in the face of all odds. Yumi Stynes talks to punk legend Ray Ahn about his experience coming to Australia as a Korean migrant, discovering his love for punk rock, and the Aussie rock legend who shaped what Ray himself thought was possible.
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    26 min
  • Shyamla Eswaran: Performance artist connecting with their identity through dance

    Shyamla Eswaran: Performance artist connecting with their identity through dance
    Apr 17 2023
    When Shyamla Eswaran sat down for a portrait with Archibald prize-winning painter Blak Douglas, he saw Shyamla in a light they weren't ready to see themselves. Yumi Stynes chats with the dancer and artist about growing up South-Asian in Sydney’s Shire, reckoning with their gender fluidity, and connecting with their culture through dance.
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    32 min