Margin Notes Margin Notes
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- Society & Culture
Life on the margins, chapter by chapter. Join co-hosts Yen Eriksen and Zoya Patel as they explore a different theme each week and unpack it through the lens of race, feminism and identity. Season 1 dives into pop culture, food, travel, grief, chronic illness and queer identity, just to name a few things.
Hosts: Yen Eriksen & Zoya Patel
Producer: Kim Lester
Theme music: Fossil Rabbit
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Margin Notes S2 Episode 7: On work and culture
We hear from guest writer, Phi Phi Nguyen, who shares her story of growing up as the child of migrants on the NSW South Coast. Watching her family work incredibly hard to make a life in their new home shaped Phi Phi's attitude towards work, which we explore alongside what it's like to grow up in a majority white town as a migrant, and more!
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Margin Notes S2 Episode 5: On animals
This episode, we talk animals and culture. How do we treat animals? And how does our culture inform this?
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Margin Notes S2 Episode 6: On sexuality and coming of age
Ah, our twenties. We remember those years fondly - full of sexual awakening, poor decision making, and riotous fun. We get nostalgic, talk love and sex, and our halcyon days of youth.
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Margin Notes S2 Episode 4: On interracial relationships
What's it like being in an interracial relationship? How do we navigate the expectations of our families, and society at large? And when does cultural difference become a challenge?
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Margin Notes S2 Episode 3: On parenting, loss and grief
In this episode, we feature guest writer, Gemma Killen. Gem and Yen share their experience of losing their son to stillbirth. Trigger warning - we talk about grief, infant death, and loss.
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Margin Notes S2 Episode 2: On micro aggressions
We talk about microaggressions - when racism, homophobia and other prejudice is experienced, even in 'small doses', it builds up and corrodes our sense of self and belonging.