Being Biracial

Katie Henderson is Anglo-Burmese/Australian and lives in Melbourne/Naarm on the lands of the Kulin nation.

We chat about:

- Anglo-Burmese history

- Being an outsider in Melbourne’s Burmese community

- People guessing where you’re from

- A family recipe that starts with ... a chicken

- Anglicised names

- University as a gateway to identity

- Looking up your tattoo in the lonely planet dictionary

- Sewing, fabrics and clothes as markers of ethnicity

- Princess Jasmine and Moana

- ‘Scary’ Spice being a racist name

- Digital Blackface

- IVF and donor selection

Hosted by: Maria Birch-Morunga and Kate Robinson

Guest: Katie Henderson

Edited by: Maria Birch-Morunga

Music by: Green Twins

Special thanks: Footscray Community Arts Centre

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

If you have any questions or feedback you can find us on Instagram @beingbiracialpodcast or send us an email at [email protected]

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Lauren Nguyen is Laos/Vietnamese and lives in Melbourne’s west on the lands of the Boon Wurrung and Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung peoples.

We chat about:

- The Laos community in Melbourne

- Maria’s submission to a 90s TV show

- Soaking your hands in warm water for traditional Laos dancing

- Not having any white in your mix

- Returning to the ‘motherland’

- The 12 Nguyens in chemistry class

- Multiracial/multi-religion relationships

- Craving Laos food as you get older

- How a raw onion destroyed Kate’s lifelong vegetarianism

- Laying a hangi

- Pirated videos from Footscray Market

- Turning into your parents

Hosted by: Maria Birch-Morunga and Kate Robinson

Guest: Lauren Nguyen

Edited by: Kate Robinson

Music by: Green Twins

Special thanks: Footscray Community Arts Centre

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

If you have any questions or feedback you can find us on Instagram @beingbiracialpodcast or send us an email at [email protected]

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Anusha Kenny is Sri Lankan/Irish and lives in Melbourne/Naarm on the lands of the Kulin nation.

We chat about:

- un Projects

- The Sri Lankan civil war

- Parental power imbalances

- Divorce in Sri Lankan communities

- Uber drivers asking “where are you from?”

- The white father thing

- Conditional passing

- Microaggressions

- Our auto-reply to racism

- Racial weathering https://www.self.com/story/weathering-and-its-deadly-effect-on-black-mothers

- Learning to love your name

- Becoming a mother

- Repatriation of smuggled artefacts

- Sinhalese privilege

- How representation isn’t the end game

Hosted by: Maria Birch-Morunga and Kate Robinson

Guest: Anusha Kenny

Edited by: Maria Birch-Morunga

Music by: Green Twins

Special thanks: Footscray Community Arts Centre

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

If you have any questions or feedback you can find us on Instagram @beingbiracialpodcast or send us an email at [email protected]

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

Welcome to the first episode of Being Biracial. Today we’re interviewing...each other!

We chat about:

- Ourselves.... and it is scary

- The Iranian Revolution

- Complicated family histories (CW: domestic violence)

- How we met

- The western suburbs of Melbourne

- How to introduce yourself in Te Ao Māori (the Māori world)

- Racial imposter syndrome

- Fake tanning when you are brown

- Naomi Osaka’s mini-series

- Raceless by Georgina Lawton

- Young Adult fiction

- Kaitiaki - being caretakers for people’s stories

Hosted by: Maria Birch-Morunga and Kate Robinson

Guest: Maria Birch-Morunga and Kate Robinson

Music by: Green Twins

Edited by: Kate Robinson

Special thanks: Footscray Community Arts Centre

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

If you have any questions or feedback you can find us on Instagram @beingbiracialpodcast or send us an email at [email protected]

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

Welcome to Being Biracial, a new show about navigating the world as a mixed race person.  

Being Biracial is filled with stories told by people of many different mixes about the significance of our names, complicated family histories and childhoods in different languages. Enjoy this sneak peek of what’s to come!  

Coming September 2021.

Hosted by Maria Birch-Morunga and Kate Robinson.

Music by the Green Twins.

Being Biracial was developed with the support of Footscray Community Arts Centre, through the use of their podcast studio on the lands of the Boon Wurrung and Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung peoples. 

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