Bereavement Room

This week Callsuma is in Scotland speaking with 3rd year English Lit student Vai Ramu about her grandfather who sadly died when she was 12 years old. We also talk about racism in Scotland and what it's like growing up on the borders. 

Lydia Okoibhole is in the Bereavement Room talking to Callsuma about her father who sadly died unexpectedly when she was a teenager in the summer she received her GCSE results. In this episode we also discuss how culture can sometimes get in the way of respect and do charities do enough to let communities know what support is available when grieving?

The last episode of 2019, Nikhwat Marawat the Co-director of The Delicate Mind CIC joins Callsuma in the Bereavement Room to talk about his brother who died by Suicide in 2017. We talk all things, diaspora, taboo, stigma, suicide language and counselling. 

Lekhani Chirwa is in the Bereavement Room to talk about her father who sadly died when she was in Malawi in 2016. We discuss all things grief, identity and her one woman show, Can I touch your hair?

Tasneem Choudhury born and bred in East London, joins Callsuma in the Bereavement Room to talk about what it was like to be bereaved as a teenager. Tasneem's mother died of breast cancer when she was 15 years old.

Welcome to the Bereavement Room. A podcast for our community, faith and culture, featuring representative voices from across the U.K. A safe space for people to tell their stories of grief and loss. So often ignored or silenced by society because they are not told from a white perspective that fits into a neat and tidy box. Our experiences very rarely covered by mainstream channels and platforms. We discuss how grief effects us culturally, the discrimination that happens, inequality and the lack of understanding about how grief might manifest itself within the diaspora and the challenges along the way.

We are more than the label that is BAME. Grief is universal the narrative around bereavement is not. 

Stories and experiences shared by our POC, BLACK, ASIAN, BME, BEM, BAME, MINORITISED, GLOBAL MAJORITY and OTHER communities on our peer to peer support platform. (Lost in all the labels, which one are we)? Don't blame me, blame the system. We are clearly NOT all the same. I love you all. You are welcome here! 

I am your host, Callsuma Ali. (Sharing my own story and lived experiences at the end of the season)