Seema and Naima invite Karishma on the episode to discuss the current and ongoing tensions in Palestine and the social media silence around it. 

Seems and Naima get talking about the mental health effects of intergenerational trauma and how long lasting they can be, in what form they present themselves and how to manage them. Continuing on the mental health mini series’s we discover a wide range of issues that can come from being a child of an immigrant. 

This week we are joined by Karishma Patel aka @karishmacookie to talk about the difficult dynamics of long standing friendships.

We navigate through our own experiences of friendships and relationships through a mental health point of view, offering some solutions to barriers that we face when relationships go south. 

We are joined by Taimour this week to discuss men and their mental health. 

We discuss topics such as toxic masculinity, patriarchy and violence as a means of acting as barriers for men to access mental health. 

Having a south Asian male voicing his own experiences to help us to understand the challenges faced by men of colour. 

In this weeks episode we touch on the nuances that arise around the topic of mental health as people of colour and faith. This episode is an introduction into a further set of episodes which will tackle real issues faced by people of colour when dealing with and delving into the world of mental wellbeing and therapy.
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Thank you for your patience with our sound quality on our recordings over lockdown. 

It has been revealed that the UK is the world's second largest arms exporter but what does that really mean for us mere citizens? 

This episode we are joined by educator, poet and writer Suhaiymah Manzoor-Khan to discuss the role of BAE systems with these exports and the weapons they provide. 

We appreciate this may be a sensitive topic for many of our listeners, so thank you for taking the time to listen. We hope you can join us on our Instagram and our email, [email protected], to help us further the conversation.

Please bare with us and the sound quality on this episode as it was recorded via video chat as we all try to remain safe working from home.

In this episode we explore the concept of a game named Forty Cards. 

In this episode, we are joined by our good friend and tech head Yasmin to talk about Imposter Syndrome. The episode unpacks the extra layers to Imposter Syndrome as a South Asian person and the added experience of that. 

We were joined by the wonderful Tez Ilyas to talk about why it's important to pursue our talents and dreams as people of colour. He tells us about some of his experiences along the way in finding his creative calling and existing as a person of colour in the world of comedy.