Welcome to the final episode of season 2 of Being Biracial! Today we are chatting to each other about:

• Our reflections on this season

• How age impacts our conversations about being mixed-race

• Processing identity through the creation of art

• Maria’s experience at the Matariki wānanga

• Threads at the Immigration Museum

• The difficulty of creating work about deeply personal things

• Family secrets

Hosted by: Maria Birch-Morunga and Kate Robinson

Music by: the Green Twins

Edited by: Kate Robinson

This podcast was recorded on the lands of the Boon Wurrung and Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung peoples of the eastern Kulin Nations.

You can find us on Instagram @beingbiracialpodcast or send us an email at beingbiracialpodcast@gmail.com

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Steph Tisdell is Aboriginal (Yindiji) and white Australian. She is an actor, tv writer, former comedian and author of the YA novel The Skin I’m In.

We chat about:

• Her white Dad’s surprising DNA results
• Hearts mown into lawns
• The responsibility we feel in our family units
• Diversity within diversity
• Well intended white teachers
• Bringing The Skin I’m In to life
• How the characters relate (and don’t relate) to Steph’s life
• The self indulgent joy of writing young adult fiction
• Reactions to her book
• Kinship adoption

Hosted by: Maria Birch-Morunga and Kate Robinson

Guest: Steph Tisdell

Music by: the Green Twins

Edited by: Maria Birch-Morunga

This podcast was recorded on the lands of the Boon Wurrung and Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung peoples of the eastern Kulin Nations, and our guest joined us from land of the Turrbal and Jagera people.

You can find us on Instagram @beingbiracialpodcast or send us an email at beingbiracialpodcast@gmail.com

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Faustina Agolley (Fuzzy) is Ghanaian and Chinese Malaysian. She hosted Video Hits, was a DJ for Oprah and is a writer, producer and presenter.

We chat about:

• A london love story ft The Temptations
• Growing up in a multi-generational Chinese household
• Having too much on her plate to study Chinese
• Learning about her dad through his music
• Going to Ghana
• Blackness being a celebration of the self
• DJing for Oprah
• Hosting Video Hits
• Learning from Alicia Keys

Hosted by: Maria Birch-Morunga and Kate Robinson

Guest: Faustina Agolley

Music by: the Green Twins

Edited by: Kate Robinson

This podcast was recorded on the lands of the Boon Wurrung and Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung peoples of the eastern Kulin Nations, and our guest joined us from land of the Gadigal people of the Eora Nation.
You can find us on Instagram @beingbiracialpodcast or send us an email at beingbiracialpodcast@gmail.com

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.