EP 13 – Black Enough

Written By Being Biracial Podcast
 
 

Steph Amair is Jamaican/Australian and lives in Melbourne on the lands of the Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung people.

We chat about:

  • The Jamaican motto “out of many, one people”

  • Waves of colonisation in Jamaica

  • Being one of the only POC in town

  • “I wasn’t black enough” aka internalised racism

  • Talking about race in therapy

  • Identifying as ‘purple’

  • Cringe race related nicknames that call for hard conversations

  • Struggling with your hair growing-up

  • We find another Scary Spice

  • How race & body image translate into Steph’s ceramics

  • The history of jerk chicken.

Mixed media: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/brief-history-jamaican-jerk-180976597/

Guest: Steph Amair

Edited by: Maria Birch-Morunga

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