Maneuvering

This episode is all about Shanah’s favourite issue in feminism… misogyny in the South-Asian community. Shanah unpacks her experience of the Muslim South-Asian community and brings to light patriarchal sexism, the institution of “aunties”, and finally how shame and guilt are used to police women.

Shanah quotes from the book ‘It’s Not About the Burqa’ edited by Mariam Khan in this episode.

At Maneuvering we discuss topics like feminism, anti-racism, mental health, friendships, identity and much more. We also feature our friends occasionally and exchange personal stories that fuels their politics.

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Hosts: Shanah Khan and Michaela Tucker

Society tells us everywhere that a thin body is more attractive, worthy and belongs. This is systematic sizeism. In this episode we reflect on how sizeism has shown up in our lives through diet culture, media, and friendships with other women. We unravel our own implicit biases around weight and shed light on important activism happening to combat such biases.

At Maneuvering we discuss topics like feminism, anti-racism, mental health, friendships, identity and much more. We also feature our friends occasionally and exchange personal stories that fuels their politics.

Follow us on Instagram! @maneuveringpodcast
Hosts: Shanah Khan and Michaela Tucker

We’d love to hear from you! Email us at [email protected] with ideas, thoughts or topics we can discuss in the future.

Get married, settle down, and have kids… it's not for everyone. In this episode we take an feminist’s tour through parenthood, reproductive justice, and fertility to discuss how these change our perception of our own futures. What double standards exist between men and women in reproduction, contraception and the “biological clock”?

At Maneuvering we discuss topics like feminism, anti-racism, mental health, friendships, identity and much more. We also feature our friends occasionally and exchange personal stories that fuels their politics.

Follow us on Instagram! @maneuveringpodcast
Hosts: Shanah Khan and Michaela Tucker

We’d love to hear from you! Email us at [email protected] with ideas, thoughts or topics we can discuss in the future.

Why are we told we have to “make it” in life at the youngest age? What does it even mean to “make it”? In this episode we unpack the idea of success and why we are fed myths about success with a healthy dose of privilege-checking. We also share our own ideas of success and how we personally mitigate the plague of comparison among millennials.

At Maneuvering we discuss topics like feminism, anti-racism, mental health, friendships, identity and much more. We also feature our friends occasionally and exchange personal stories that fuels their politics.

Follow us on Instagram! @maneuveringpodcast
Hosts: Shanah Khan and Michaela Tucker

We’d love to hear from you! Email us at [email protected] with ideas, thoughts or topics we can discuss in the future.

In this episode, Shanah sits down with her Mum to talk about her life when she was younger, navigating her teenage years, marriage and motherhood. We talk about generational feminism and the ways culture influenced our lives in similar ways.

At Maneuvering we discuss topics like feminism, anti-racism, mental health, friendships, identity and much more. We also feature our friends occasionally and exchange personal stories that fuels their politics.

Follow us on Instagram! @maneuveringpodcast
Hosts: Shanah Khan and Michaela Tucker

We’d love to hear from you! Email us at [email protected] with ideas, thoughts or topics we can discuss in the future

Family is one of the constants in life, so in this episode we take you through the ins and outs of our family structures. What defines family closeness? What is your definition of family? How do you maneuver through the trials and tribulations of being part of a family network? We answer it all in this episode of Maneuvering.

Book mentioned in this episode: ‘Unaccustomed Earth’ By Jhumpa Lahiri.

At Maneuvering we navigate topics like feminism, anti-racism, mental health, friendships, identity and much more. We also feature our friends occasionally and exchange personal stories that fuels their politics.

Follow us on Instagram! @maneuveringpodcast
Hosts: Shanah Khan and Michaela Tucker

We’d love to hear from you! Email us at [email protected] with ideas, thoughts or topics we can discuss in the future.

Episode 3 is here! We loved talking about friendships so much we decided to extend the conversation to inter-racial friendships. In this episode we extract ideas from the book Big Friendship by Aminatou Sow & Ann Friedman and discuss how to maneuver friendships rooted in racial difference.

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Welcome to Maneuvering! We navigate topics like feminism, anti-racism, mental health, friendships, identity and much more. We also feature our friends occasionally and exchange personal stories that fuels their politics.

Hosts: Shanah Khan and Michaela Tucker
Instagram: @maneuveringpodcast

We’d love to hear from you! Email us at [email protected] with ideas, thoughts or topics we can discuss in the future.

In this episode we delve into how we formed friendships when we were younger and the ways feminism changed this growing up. We maneuver through the narratives such as girl power, female solidarity and being a "girl’s girl" to question what a feminist friendship really looks like.

Each episode we navigate topics like feminism, anti-racism, mental health, friendships, identity and much more. We also feature our friends occasionally and exchange personal stories that fuels their politics.

Hosts: Shanah Khan and Michaela Tucker
Follow us Instagram: @maneuveringpodcast

Shanah Khan: @shanahkhan
Michaela Tucker: @m_b_tucker

We’d love to hear from you! Email us at [email protected] with ideas, thoughts or topics we can discuss in the future.

Welcome!
We’re two friends, Shanah and Michaela, sorting through the politics of our lived experiences. In this first episode join us as we share our beginning stories into feminism! We maneuver through our similarities and differences to explore when our personal really become political.

Each episode we navigate topics like feminism, anti-racism, mental health, friendships, identity and much more. We also feature our friends occasionally and exchange personal stories that fuels their politics.

Hosts: Shanah Khan and Michaela Tucker
Instagram: @maneuveringpodcast

We’d love to hear from you! Email us at [email protected] with ideas, thoughts or topics we can discuss in the future.