Call Her Baba

The episode y'all have been waiting to hear! We discuss how dating is nonexistent in brown culture and how it's all about studying hard and then heading straight to the altar. Even though our parents always told us to become a doctor or CEO, it feels like they truly see us as accomplished if we're married. Tune in to listen to our dating life (or rather lack of).

Knife dances, vibrant outfits, and multi-day parties, this week we discuss some Bengali and Persian wedding traditions. Get ready to listen to the elaborate traditions of Big Fat Brown Weddings!

This week's episode we discuss what it was like visiting our respective motherlands. Tune in to listen to us share stories about our experiences visiting Bangladesh and Iran. There may be a story about a chicken and a lamb?

It's hard to imagine what our parents were doing in their late 20's, one thing is for sure is that they immigrated to a new country far from everything they had ever known and their families. This week, we share our "coming to America" stories, and the struggles and hardships that come with immigrating to America. We touch on how our parents overcame numerous obstacles and pasted down their work ethic, perseverance, and dedication to us.

Parties, parties, parties, we love them and we hate them. During this week's episode, we discuss going to and hosting Brown parties with our parents as kids. The trauma, laughs and all around good stuff that came with it. You don't want to miss this!

Shaving, waxing, bleaching, plucking, oh my! This week's episode is all about brown girl beauty routines and how we groom and take care of ourselves on a daily basis. 

Aunties are extremely prominent within Brown communities and while not all Aunties are related to us, they do have great influence on our lives. We explore the motion of our Aunties critiquing, judging, and spreading information on our lives to others. While, determining that our nosy Aunties are instrumental members of our communities and upbringing. 

This week's episode is about one of our favorite topics that still happens to us today, we're talking about...receiving and giving criticism. We explore how criticism is a love language in Brown culture that harbors both negative and positive impacts in people's lives. 

Kicking off the first episode by taking a deep dive into the origins of our names as well as the struggles that come with it. We discuss Americanizing our names to make it easier on our peers, and our journey of being in limbo between two worlds when it comes to our unique names. 

This is Sayeh and Thasin! You're listening to our podcast "Call Her Baba," where we discuss balancing our Brown-American cultures, what its been like growing up as first generation Americans, dealing with nosy Aunties & ethnic parents, and dating non-Brown men. Grab your Chai and get the Tea on growing up Brown, Sugar.