What Would the Aunties Say?: A brown girl's guide to being yourself and living your best life

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With your influencer career and the creative path that you went down, how did that decision go down with your family? But then we thought, because this family is so specific, the situation is so unique — this family has this magical panda curse running through them! In this groundbreaking book, beauty influencer and podcaster Anchal Seda openly and honestly explores the shared experiences of "the brown girls" from India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh living in the Western world. It's one of the most brave things that you can do, and if you can openly talk to someone and say, "I go to therapy," I think that is way more brave than anything.

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Model and activist Neelam Kaur Gill joins me to discuss the pressures of looking marriage ready and meeting the South Asian standard. We use cookies and other tracking technologies to improve your browsing experience on our site, show personalized content and targeted ads, analyze site traffic, and understand where our audiences come from. And I just thought, I can't be the only one that thinks like this; there must be other brown girls out there that may feel alone and things like that. PS: That's another thing, accepting the fact that there actually might be things that are wrong with us, but this is how we're dealing with it. com, Google, Wikipedia and the Cambridge English Dictionary redirect ‘aunty’ to ‘auntie’, so the latter is most likely more correct.The term aunty or auntie is also used as a term of respect to refer to an older Indigenous Australian woman, who may or may not be related to the speaker. Filled with humour and warmth, and based on the podcast of the same name, in What Would the Aunties Say? I hope they get well soon”, “so sorry, she will never have a normal life”, “Your childs illness is paying for your bad karma”. It takes you through every aspect of life - from education and career, beauty standards and colourism, to dating and marriage, as well as mental health and therapy, racism and inequality - and of course, your relationship with your family.

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I went to uni and did special-effects makeup, and for them, it was still way outside of the comfort zone, but I'm really stubborn and adamant, and I like to get my way so I guess they just got on board with it. I was born in the states so it’s so nice to hear another desi who loves their culture but wants to challenge it too (like the racism in our community). I always grew up feeling a bit of anger towards Asians, and I still have moments where I'm super judgemental.

I actually got kicked out of sixth form so I had no plan, and everybody sort of forced me into nursing. PS: Episode two with Sebinaah touched on it a little, the experience of wearing Indian clothes on nonuniform day and then transitioning to Western clothing and still not feeling quite the same as the other girls. I wasn’t an insta follower of Anchal’s before, but was intrigued by the interracial couple episodes and am so impressed, especially by her ability to connect with her guests and share so openly. It’s funny, we had in our head this idea of combining the chant at the end with the 4*Town music and the orchestration, and hoping it all came together,” Shi says.