📣 BROWN TABOO PROJECT IS BACK FOR SEASON 2! 📣

We're super excited to announce that SASMHA's very own podcast, the Brown Taboo Project, is coming back for a second season! We have some really amazing topics and discussions that we can't wait to share. We even have some extra-special guests that have recorded with us, so be on the lookout. 👀 

For our inaugural episode, we wanted to give y'all a quick catch-up on what's been going on in our lives and here at SASMHA. We also wanted to celebrate a great achievement by one of our very own, Sree Sinha, and talk with her about being a woman of color in the field of counseling. 

New episodes to be released every week! Listen now on our website or wherever you get your podcasts, including Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and Stitcher. 

SASMHA was up at the South Asian Awareness Network (SAAN) Conference in January of 2019, hosted at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI. We were able to record live with conference attendees, just talking and shooting the wind about being brown, coming from different backgrounds, and samosa-eating ASMR.

In this Episode we discuss how different schooling environments might affect us, different ways we say our names, and a really interesting discussion (for us at least!) about what is mainstream and what is not when it comes to activism.

Coincidentally, SAAN 2020 just happened at UMich this past month — check them out on Facebook here: https://www.facebook.com/saanatum/

SASMHA was up at the South Asian Awareness Network (SAAN) Conference in January of 2019, hosted at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI. We were able to record live with conference attendees, just talking and shooting the wind about being brown, coming from different backgrounds, and samosa-eating ASMR.

In this Episode we discuss growing up brown in different environments, how we code switch, how we internalize different messages, among many other things!

Coincidentally, SAAN 2020 just happened at UMich this past week — check them out on Facebook here: https://www.facebook.com/saanatum/

SASMHA was up at the South Asian Awareness Network (SAAN) Conference in January of 2019, hosted at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI. We were able to record live with conference attendees, just talking and shooting the wind about being brown, coming from different backgrounds, and samosa-eating ASMR. This is the first of a few clips that we were able to record!

Coincidentally, SAAN 2020 just happened at UMich this past week — check them out on Facebook here: https://www.facebook.com/saanatum/

We’re in the middle of recording the second season of Brown Taboo Project, but recent news about riots and protests in India following the passage of the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) made us realize we needed to put something out sooner rather than later.

Let us be clear — at SASMHA, we believe any kind of discrimination and willful oppression is wrong. We believe in calling it out, and we believe in showing solidarity with those whose voices need to be amplified.

We don’t know everything, and we come from a position of extreme privilege. As we attempt to unpack what is going on, please send us your thoughts, comments, and stories. Correct us. Call us in. Ask questions. Speakup. Let’s beat this ugliness together: southasiansexualhealth@gmail.com // @southasiansmh

RESOURCES:

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/16/world/asia/india-citizenship-protests.html
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2019/12/india-citizenship-law-protests-latest-updates-191216080909659.html

https://www.youthkiawaaz.com/2019/12/a-lot-is-wrong-with-the-citizenship-amendment-bill/

https://www.vox.com/world/2019/12/21/21033083/india-muslim-protests-citizenship-amendment-bill-cab-caa

https://www.instagram.com/p/B6UtJO6JeRz/

https://www.instagram.com/p/B6SDhFDHF4S/

2018 - it’s been real! BTP hosts Sree, Sriya, and Trinish bring you our end-of-the-year wrap up - listen in for our favorite bits from this year as we ring in the new year. Thank u, next!

CW: trans erasure

The fantastic four is back! Join us as we talk politics, current madness coming out of the 45 administration, South Asians in politics, and of course, the importance of going out and voting!!

Not sure where to figure out your voting information? Go to vote.org to find your deadlines, polling place, and so much more!

Check out SAALT’s 2018 South Asian-focused Midterm Election Voting Guide here, and the #DesiWallofShame.

The founders chat with licensed social worker and sex therapist, Sonalee Rashatwar (she/they), about a topic that can be at times equal parts frustrating, confusing and enlightening: gender. What does it mean to "queer gender"? How are gender roles affected by other parts of our presentation? There's a good amount of "woah!" moments.

Learn more about Sonalee's work:
sonaleer.com

Join all four founders with a special guest on this episode as we discuss mental health, bipolar disorder, mis/diagnosis, the joys of therapy, and the little judgmental auntie who lives inside us all.

CW: Sexual abuse

Sriya, Sree, and Trinish discuss, *sigh*, Aziz Ansari (yeah...we recorded this a while ago). What are power dynamics and how were they abused in this situation? We also talk about our experiences with the stigma around abuse.

Articles referenced:

babe.net/2018/01/13/aziz-ansari-28355

newyorker.com/magazine/2017/12/11/cat-person

CW: Sexual abuse, abortion

Brown people -- let's talk about sex and mental health, baby! After ~2 years of trying to figure out how to make discussions around sexual and mental health issues accessible to our South Asian community, we had an idea: PODCAST! South Asian Sexual Health Alliance (SASHA) co-founders Sree Sinha, Tania Chatterjee, Trinish Chatterjee and Sriya Sarkar chat about what taboo problems they're dealing with in their very brown lives.

Read the transcript of the episode.

Articles referenced:
thelily.com/the-silent-lives-of-childhood-sexual-abuse-survivors-in-americas-south-asian-diaspora/

Corrections:
The Azar Nafisi novel is called "Things I've Been Silent About”