Pretty For An Aboriginal

Pretty For An Aboriginal episodes:

• 10.19.2018

  Bonus Live Episode with Ta-Nehisi Coates: Between Hope and Anger

  If you thought we’d disappeared, think again! Nakkiah and Miranda have a treat for you. Recently, at the Melbourne Writers Festival, they sat down with journalist, memoirist and comic book writer Ta-Nehisi Coates to talk about race in general, and...

  
• 03.16.2018

  Bonus Episode Live From The Sydney Opera House: Black Panther & Colonisers

  In this special live episode, presented and recorded at the Sydney Opera House as part of the All About Women festival, Nakkiah and Miranda are joined by actor and budding director Shari Sebbens to unpack the fall out from the...

  
• 11.04.2017

  Bonus Episode Live From Junket: Race Matters

  We decided to record a bonus episode because recently Australia’s prime minister Malcolm Turnbull landed a pretty big blow on Indigenous Australians. Last week, he rejected the Indigenous Voice to Parliament proposed in the Uluru Statement From The Heart –...

  
• 11.01.2017

  Episode 8: We're All Superheroes (with Blessing Mokgohloa & Arka Das)

  In a perfect world Miranda Tapsell would be the star of a wildly successful rom-com, or a franchised superhero film. The Frances Ha or Jessica James of Australia, or an Aboriginal Storm in the next edition of X-Men. But in...

  
• 10.25.2017

  Episode 7: It May Take A Woman To Lead The Fight (with Sarain Fox)

  Nakkiah and Miranda talk about race even when they’re not talking about race. It permeates their daily experience. Across the first season of Pretty For An Aboriginal, Nakkiah and Miranda have talked a lot about how important African American culture...

  
• 10.18.2017

  Epiosde 6: What U Say? (with Shari Sebbens)

  In this episode Nakkiah and Miranda talk to acclaimed stage and screen actor Shari Sebbens about code switching, why Taika Waititi is the mentor aspiring filmmakers of colour need, and why accents are such strong signifiers of race. They each...

  
• 10.11.2017

  Episode 5: Black Beauty & How To Be A Boss (with Marina Go)

  In this episode Miranda Tapsell and Nakkiah Lui, share stories with former Dolly editor Marina Go about perceptions of beauty in Australia, and discuss how beauty is being defined on Aussie TV and in magazines. They also explore how and...

  
• 10.04.2017

  Episode 4: Sex & Power (with Emily Sears)

  In this frank episode, Nakkiah Lui and Miranda Tapsell talk to LA-based, Melbourne model Emily Sears about the begetting of power through provocative imagery, why sexy women are feared, and why sexy black women are feared even more.  In 2016, Emily...

  
• 09.27.2017

  Episode 3: Big Sexy Love (with Roxane Gay)

  In this wide-ranging interview with American writer and essayist Roxane Gay, Nakkiah and Miranda trade stories about their mutual love of ice skating; compare experiences with weight loss and surgery; and consider why fat women aren’t allowed to be sexual...

  
• 09.20.2017

  Episode 2: American Heroes and White Allies (with Yael Stone)

  When Nakkiah and Miranda drew up their interview wish list for the podcast it was dominated by African American actors, writers and musicians. Like so many other young Australians, Miranda and Nakkiah have looked to the US for inspiration. In...

  
• 09.14.2017

  Episode 1: Hustle Baby, Hustle (with Briggs)

  Rapper, writer, actor and record label boss Adam Briggs knows how to get work, be heard, and get paid. In other words, he knows how to hustle. In the first episode of Pretty For An Aboriginal, Briggs, Nakkiah and Miranda...

  
• 09.12.2017

  Introducing Nakkiah and Miranda

  Nakkiah Lui and Miranda Tapsell are set to rock traditional perceptions of Indigenous Australia and challenge rigid mindsets of what women of colour can and cannot do. In our eight episode first season, we'll talk honestly about relationships, weight, dick...