This season finale episode coinciding with Pride Month and celebrating the idea of normalizing all kinds of identities and perspectives, especially from our Brown Colored Glasses, is so very fitting. Specifically, as a listener, you get to hear from a panel of those within the South Asian community who identify with LGBTQ+ and who share their stories - their struggles, their wins and what they represent. Fayzan Gowani, a queer and trans Muslim passionate about intergenerational healing;...
Jun 23, 2021
52 min
As South Asians, we are all too familiar with the dreaded word "dating" and what that can mean in terms of stigmas, taboos, expectations, outcomes and more. This episode discusses it all - the idea of dating, what it means today for the current generation versus our parents generation, dating only within our cultural community, how dating to marry (and not to explore relationships) is a rite of passage that a South Asian must go through and so much more. Tune in to this light hearted episode ...
May 24, 2021
34 min
As a bonus episode to all the listeners, this was a special live recording with the BCG hosts and Rizwan Mawani, a passion educator, author and researcher in the field of anthropology and religious studies. His work has taken him across the globe to address audiences from students to policy makers and BCG had the opportunity to host him and ask any questions from the live audience related to faith, identity and spirituality. On the heels of the last episode (For The Love Of God) and all the b...
May 13, 2021
1 hr 1 min
Do you find yourself questioning your own faith and those of others based on how deeply they follow the practices of their faith? Do you wonder about the impact of Covid-19 on our beliefs and what this past year has meant for us in a spiritual sense? Do you feel that your sense of faith has evolved over time as you have begun to form your own identity and come to realize what offers you comfort and serenity? If you answered "Yes" to any of these questions or ponder about the intersection of o...
Apr 22, 2021
39 min
As we continue to honor Women's History Month, this episode covers the all too familiar topic and ideal that we as South Asians struggle with quite a bit: body image. You will get to listen to heartfelt, personal experiences from each of the hosts and how they experienced body shaming in different ways and it's impact on them as individuals. We also discuss social media and "what's trending now" and its ramifications when it comes to internalizing body image as well as how as parents we can i...
Mar 26, 2021
33 min
In this second episode which delves into the notion of South Asians and colorism, the hosts discuss all aspects of our obsession with the lighter skin - whether it's the "Fair & Lovely" face cream, the tone filter on shaadi.com or our own parents telling us not to stay out in the sun for too long. What is also discussed is the why - where did this stem from and how as a society we ended up discriminating those with darker skin. How does this also parallel with the racism we see with...
Mar 4, 2021
31 min
Brand New Season for BCG and a whole new team! In this episode, you get to be a fly on the wall and listen in on four friends, aka your new hosts, talk about the good, bad and the ugly when it comes to Valentine's Day. What are some of the pressures one feels when this day comes around? Does this day really need to be just about romantic love? What about self-love, Galentine's Day and in general, love for humanity? Take a break and and enjoy listening to the back and forth banter on what shou...
Feb 11, 2021
48 min
This episode is the season finale for the first season of Brown Colored Glasses and features the host's daughter, Imaan, to reflect upon the topics of this season such as mental health, unconscious bias, gender and racial conversations and more - all from the lens of a child. Many times, as an adult, we succumb to an invisible threshold that society places upon us whether in terms of our personal or professional lives. What we really need is to be able to look at life from a childlike p...
Oct 13, 2020
34 min
This episode is the third and final segment of the 3-Part Series on Unconventional Career Paths in South Asians. This one features, Saqib Siddiqui, a Pakistani engineer cum lawyer who shares his personal story of how his culture, his family and the giant expectations of acceptable and lauded career choices affected him from a very young age. What is really delightful about this particular episode is that even though Saqib is discussing conventional career paths, his path towards how he arrive...
Sep 28, 2020
45 min
This episode is the second segment of a 3-Part Series on the topic of Unconventional Career Paths in South Asians and features Aelia Hassan, a senior at Indiana University studying Sports Media and Broadcast Journalism. This dialogue really hits home the idea of empowering young girls to pursue their dreams and passions and in this case, it all began with Aelia's love of sports from a young age. Aelia talks about the struggles she faced and continues to face as a woman in the male dominated s...
Sep 14, 2020
36 min
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