Umber & Afsha
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Umber & Afsha episodes

  • How To Deal With Constantly Changing Beauty Standards (Body Neutrality, Body Dysmorphia, Self Love)

    Loving our bodies isn't always realistic, sometimes we need to land in a more neutral place where instead of having to say "I love every inch of my body!" we can say "hey body, thanks for getting me through the day." Cue body neutrality, a movement that we've started to learn about and implement into our lives. It's allowed us to appreciate our bodies even when beauty standards keep changing on us. 

    23 min
  • Playing The Game "We're Not Really Strangers" from Red Table Talk

    Today we decided to play a card game that is designed to build personal connections with people you don't know, or the people you're close to. There's no winning or losing in this one, and the aim is to uncover a deeper layer that you didn't even know about. Through sharing you connect, as you'll see in the video. We played Level 1 and Level 2, but ran out of time before we could play Level 3! Get the game and let us know what you think in the comments. Are you going to play it safe or allow yourself to be vulnerable?

    21 min
  • The Issues With Modesty Culture

    Today our conversation about modesty is based off of tweets written by Josh Weed. You can head to our youtube video to see the tweets we're referring to! We decided to acknowledge various opposing views in our discussion today in order to include more than one perspective. 

    17 min

About Umber & Afsha

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This podcast is a safe and inclusive space meant to encourage others to challenge cultural norms and break the stereotypes we’ve been boxed into. We discuss issues such as intersectional feminism,…