“Leave my brown goddesses alone. They’re ready to stay, to slay To dance, to laugh, to rule, to take over. Because I’m the ultimate divine feminist and you will listen.” – SLAY, CREATED FOR BROCCOLI CONTENT Soul Sutras created a piece titled SLAY, which was all about the power of the ultimate divine feminist. This […]
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Soul Sutras® was part of an incredible project featuring written & narrated letters on Audible’s exclusive ‘to The Woman’ podcast, hosted by Scarlett Curtis. Reading my letter (about my experiences around my body while growing up in India) on a panel for the launch with Scarlett, June Sarpong & Lisa Luxx (all so supportive of
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Thurs 30th July, The Female Quotient I’m thrilled be on this panel about the “Power Of The Female Voice” created by The Female Quotient. Why is storytelling such a powerful tool for change? How can we have more inclusive storytelling? How does authenticity impact an audience? I’m excited to talk about all this & more.
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Masala Podcast won Silver in the ‘Sex & Relationships Podcast’ category. The Gold Winner was ‘Brown Girls Do It Too’ from the BBC Asian Network. Happy to share the spotlight with another awesome South Asian female led podcast! Winner of Spotify SoundUp 2018 Masala Podcast was one of the winners of the first ever UK
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Want to register? Fill the form below: “This was just what I needed, and you ran it so beautifully – I will truly treasure this experience.” – Farhana Khalique Next Masala Monologues Online Workshop, Coming soon… Welcome to your online safe space, where you can tackle taboos that you’ve experienced in your personal life. Where
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We’ve marched against discrimination. We’ve fought for equal pay. As we sip our well-earned Cosmopolitans with our fearless female friends, where does an ancient (and some would say archaic text) like the Kamasutra fit into our lives? Because we all know that the Kamasutra is about hundreds of impractical, impossible sexual positions, right? Wrong. In
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Indians don’t touch. Indians don’t hug. Indians certainly don’t kiss. Growing up in India, that’s what I grew up believing. My parents never touched each other or us, and it was the same with all my other little friends. The general belief was that as long as you clothed your kids, fed them, educated them,
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My first experience of being touched as a woman happened on a dusty Mumbai bus. It was horrible. I was 11 years old, off to school in my freshly-starched-and-pressed grey school uniform. An ‘uncle’ (all older men in India not related to you are ‘uncles’) smiled at me, then brazenly put his hand under my
Childless. Barren. The words sound awful, evoking images of shriveled-up women who’ve given up on life. I decided not to have kids. Not because I couldn’t. It just wasn’t for me. It was a decision I took in my early 30’s. It wasn’t so I that could focus on my career. It was just because…I
ON BILLBOARDS IN NEW YORK, LONDON, CARDIFF, DUBLIN & GLASGOW Winner of 6 British Podcast Awards & Spotify SoundUp Ep. 1 – Body & Burlesque “It was so emotional for me, in a good way. It was so beautiful to hear us women talk this way. Thank you. Thank you.” This theme of this episode
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The stories that took shape at our Masala Monologues® workshops over two years were shaped and transformed into these theatre performances. You’ll see for yourself how creating safe spaces where South Asian womxn can write their personal stories, from their culture – can be so powerful! “It’s the closest I’ve seen my identity represented on
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Soul Sutras collaborated with the University of Berkeley California to run a series of writing workshops with their South Asian female-identifying student community. We explored the taboos faced by South Asian American womxn. We talked about their cultural experiences around the themes of sex, sexuality, shame, body image, domestic violence & other taboo topics within
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