EP 11 - The Skin I'm In with Steph Tisdell

Steph Tisdell is Aboriginal (Yindiji) and white Australian. She is an actor, tv writer, former comedian and author of the YA novel The Skin I’m In.

We chat about: 

• Her white Dad’s surprising DNA results

• Hearts mown into lawns

• The responsibility we feel in our family units

• Diversity within diversity

• Well intended white teachers

• Bringing The Skin I’m In to life

• How the characters relate (and don’t relate) to Steph’s life

• The self indulgent joy of writing young adult fiction

• Reactions to her book

• Kinship adoption

Hosted by: Maria Birch-Morunga and Kate Robinson

Guest: Steph Tisdell

Music by: the Green Twins

Edited by: Maria Birch-Morunga