Scale The Fences Maliha Sharma

Hey Scale The Fences listeners! This episode is one that will truly open your eyes. In this episode of the podcast, Maliha meets with Amy Burkart, the former chief of the Cybercrime Unit at the United States Attorney's Office and the former co-director of the USAO Civil Rights Enforcement Team to discuss some of the recent issues regarding women's rights and safety and the world of human trafficking, bringing light to the 97% statistic that recently came out as well. 

Have you every wondered what your personality type is? Why you act the way you do, why you end up in certain situations, etc.? Maliha brings guest's Sophie Johnston and Austyn Dewitt, some of Maliha's close friends, onto the podcast to discuss one of their personal interests at heart; the Myers-Briggs personality test. Maliha starts off by giving listeners a brief introduction to what Myers-Briggs theory is, the history of it in psychology and how the "system" works. The three fanatics discuss the importance of Myers-Briggs, their personality types, how it has taught them about themselves, as well as how it has taught them about the way other people interact with them. 

Congratulations! If you made it through this week's ep and have an understanding of Myers-Briggs, please check out the links below for more information on the subject matter. 
MBTI Tests: 
- http://keys2cognition.com/explore (for the ID, write: Maliha Sharma, Scale the Fences and make sure to type a comment or your results will not load) 
- https://openpsychometrics.org/tests/OEJTS/ 

Articles on your personality type: 
https://www.16personalities.com/personality-types  

In this episode, Maliha talks about thrifting; but in a way you wouldn't expect. Rather than giving her audience fashion advice, Maliha talks about the environmental and fiscal benefits of thrifting, touching on subjects such as fast fashion and gentrification. Stay tuned! 

If you made it through this episode, here are the links to learn more about fast fashion: 
The True Cost Documentary: https://truecostmovie.com/about/
The Ugly Truth of Fast Fashion, Patriot Act with Hasan Minhaj: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11262536/ 

Maliha brings her friend Sneha Singh, who is also of Indian descent, to talk about South Asian cultural appropriation. The episode highlights how recently, with social media platforms such as TikTok and large, unethical corporations and more have ultimately allowed people to colonize South Asian culture and market it as their own. However, the two also take the alternative approach with it and talk about what truly counts as cultural appropriation and why culture should never be gate-kept.

Women have had the right to vote in this country for 100 years! We are also a month from it being International Women’s Day and Women’s History Month! Maliha discusses the importance of a women's vote with this past election and its affects on our future. Maliha also gives some brief history on women's suffrage in the early 1900's to give listeners background to reflect on this issue. 

Maliha Sharma gives a brief summary regarding her opinion on the BLM Movement. Maliha then interviews Kenya Woodruff, an African American lawyer about her stance on racism in our society, what her life was like growing up and her work as a lawyer.