Anusha Kenny is Sri Lankan/Irish and lives in Melbourne/Naarm on the lands of the Kulin nation.
We chat about:
- un Projects
- The Sri Lankan civil war
- Parental power imbalances
- Divorce in Sri Lankan communities
- Uber drivers asking “where are you from?”
- The white father thing
- Conditional passing
- Microaggressions
- Our auto-reply to racism
- Racial weathering https://www.self.com/story/weathering-and-its-deadly-effect-on-black-mothers
- Learning to love your name
- Becoming a mother
- Repatriation of smuggled artefacts
- Sinhalese privilege
- How representation isn’t the end game
Hosted by: Maria Birch-Morunga and Kate Robinson
Guest: Anusha Kenny
Edited by: Maria Birch-Morunga
Music by: Green Twins
Special thanks: Footscray Community Arts Centre
This podcast was recorded on the lands of the Boon Wurrung and Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung peoples of the eastern Kulin Nations.
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