First aired: 16 March 2022

This episode we’re unpacking intersectionality. What is it? Why is it important, and what does it mean to live an intersectional life?

In London, freelancer, editor and novelist Sharmilla Beezmohun (Co-founder of independent literature organisation Speaking Volumes) unpacks the question with Sydney filmmaker Pearl Tan, a lecturer in directing at the Australian Film, Television and Radio School, who is studying for a PhD looking at the intersectional experience of diversity workers in the screen industry. Later on in the show, UK based independent producer and curator Melanie Abrahams chats to poet and playwright Chérie Taylor Battiste on the lived experience of intersectionality.

Guests (in order of appearance): Pearl Tan, Sharmilla Beezmohun, Chérie Taylor Battiste
Interviewers: Lena Nahlous and Melanie Abrahams
Host: Lena Nahlous
Producer: Nadyat El Gawley

Music: Getaway

Credits: Co- written by MC Trey (Australia) and Savuto (Fiji) / TAPASTRY ©

Recorded at Treehouse Productions, Fiji

This podcast is a collaboration with This Is Who We Are, a UK-Australian movement of intergenerational & intersectional women artists, producers and creatives of colour who are transforming sectors, thinking and spaces.

This season was produced on the unceded lands of the Boon Wurrung people of the Kulin nation, and the Gadigal and Wangal people of the Eora Nation. We pay our respects to Elders past, present and emerging. Always was. Always will be. Aboriginal Land.