Burqah & Bikini
Burqah & Bikini
Kaukab Shairani
From bedroom escapades to boardroom triumphs, Burqah & Bikini is a podcast where women HAVING IT ALL reigns supreme. No more choosing between one thing or the other. No more forgoing steamy sex for career conquests. YOU CAN HAVE IT ALL. Kaukab aka Koko wants to expressly celebrate women of all shades who live life on their own terms. Women of the world who like to work, rear, provoke and win.But here's the twist: Burqah & Bikini is not colorblind. We spotlight stories of women of color, of resilience and rebellion alike, and boundary pushing narratives where women's personhood shall no longer be sacrficied at the altar of an invisible audience often referred to as 'honor' in many societies.This podcast is all about smashing patriarchy with one unladylike action at a time. Be that stories of masturbation or minting money. Or simply by using the P and V words: pussy, penis, vagina and vulva.
FGM survivor: "Somebody was holding my legs down"
TRIGGER WARNING: Female Genital Mutilation I spoke to Zahra, who bravely opened up and shared vivid details of the day she went through FGM as a child in Karachi, Pakistan. Stay tuned for the full episode!
Aug 13, 2024
31 sec
How I Overcame Vaginismus & Why I Started This Podcast
TRIGGER WARNING: This episodes deals with accounts of sexual abuse. Largely, an introduction to my life, journey and healing from sexual trauma, and how these experiences encouraged me to start my own podcast and tackle taboo topics.
Apr 23, 2024
18 min
How I Overcame Trauma From Sexual Abuse
TRIGGER WARNING: Child sexual abuse. A snippet from my soon-to-release monologue on how I overcame trauma from child sexual abuse and the body work it required.
Mar 7, 2024
56 sec
On Painful Sex & Vaginismus
In South Asia and various Muslim majority societies, newly married couples are often confronted with the pressures of ‘consummating’ their marriages. Women, especially, find themselves in a position where they are expected to have first-time sex with their husbands before they can even have dinner together. IT’S OKAY TO NOT WANT TO FALL IN THIS TRAP.
Mar 7, 2024
42 sec