#BlindianProject: Recent Episodes
Jonah Batambuze
The #BlindianProject podcast is the first podcast to use love between Black x South Asian couples to foster cross-community conversations. Through first-person storytelling, the hosts discuss race, identity, and other taboo topics from these communities, helping to shatter dated stereotypes.
Tune in as the hosts interview special guests (friends, family, celebrities, and experts) and vulnerably expose the complexities behind Black x South Asian relationships.
In July 2020, a gentleman named Peri contacted us on Facebook. He'd heard of the BlindianProject from friends and wanted to share his story about his girlfriend Priya, who was coerced to return to India to support family members who were supposedly ill.
Peri knew something was foul from everything that happened before her trip. Despite warning Priya not to go, she believed her family, and Peri hasn't seen her physically since. After speaking with Karma Nirvana, the Forced Marriage Unit, and other organizations, without any luck, Peri hoped our conversation might help provide some closure or help anyone else in a similar situation.
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Dr Jennifer Noble (IG: @drjennpsych) is an African American/Sri Lankan, Clinical psychologist from the California School of Professional Psychology. She has two speciality areas – children and adolescents/teens and multicultural community clinical psychology.
Dr Jennifer is also an Assistant Professor at Pasadena City College in the Psychology Department, where she teaches courses such as Human Sexuality, Psychology of the African American and Developmental Psychology:
In this conversation, we discuss the inspiration behind @drjennpsych work and focus specifically on the following:
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What is racial identity?
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How culture becomes a superpower
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You can find out more about Dr. Jenn Psych's work at her website — www.drjennpsych.com
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BlindianProject.TV presents: Hopes & Dreams, a conversational series with dreamers, innovators, activists, entrepreneurs, and everyday visionaries of the Global Majority, to showcase, strengthen and liberate. This episode features Dr. Evelyn Mensah: Ophthalmology Clinical Lead, WRES Expert, and the first EDI Chair for the Royal College of Ophthalmologists. Following the 75th anniversary of the National Health Service, we'll speak with Evelyn about her career, resisting systemic racism within the NHS, and her hopes and dreams for creating a better future for everyone.
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Join us for a conversation on Black British and British Asian on-screen representation. Sponsored by: Birmingham City University // Diaspore Screen Media Network — Exploring Black British and British Asian Cinema & TV.We also share the backstory of the BlindianProject and how social media allowed us to dodge gatekeepers, aunties, and uncles to become the "Home of Black x Brown Culture."
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BlindianProject presents: Hopes & Dreams, a conversational series with dreamers, innovators, activists, entrepreneurs, and every day visionaries of the Global Majority, with the aim to showcase, strengthen and liberate. This episode features Saket Soni, author and founder of Resilience Force.In 2006, following Hurricane Katrina, Saket Soni uncovered "one of the largest cases of forced labor in modern U.S. history," involving several hundred Indian men promised careers and green cards. The Great Escape: A True Story of Forced Labor and Immigrant Dreams in America compassionately captures the story of these men and their quest for freedom.#humantrafficking #hurricanekatrina #blindian #BlindianProject #laborrights #labororganizer #BlindianProjectLive
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The BlindianProject appeared on Refuge Worldwide Breakfast Show with Jumoke Adeyanju as part of our 2023 Black History Month activations in Berlin. Listen in and find out what on earth inspired us to head to Germany
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The #BlindianProject podcast is brought to you by the #BlindianProject and hosted by Jonah Batambuze and co-hosts Nimal Jude and Arion Lawrence. It's a show that uses love to redefine relationships between Black x South Asian communities.
In episode 3, we sit down with Indian-Canadian journalist Dhruva Balram, to discuss antiBlackness within the South Asian community. Balram is culture writer well-known for publishing a series of articles on the subject. His work has been featured in, GQ, NPR, Dazed, Huck and other leading publications. After experiencing antiBlackness as a youngster, Balram found inspiration to investigate the issue further.
"Around 2015, I was spending time with my grandmother in India. She made a passing comment about how dark I'd gotten because I'd spent some time at the beaches. That's when I realized this behavior hadn't changed, and I set off on my journey that continues to this day."
Join us as we talk through the basis for antiBlackness in the South Asian community, and how we can help unlearn this complex issue. Topics discussed include; casteism, colonialism, colorism, Bollywood, the music scene, and much more. Follow us on social media @BlindianProject: Instagram Facebook Twitter
Resource Links:
- Why We Can’t Give South Asian Artists Who Say The N-Word A Pass - Anupa Mistry
- Annihilation of Caste - B.R. Ambedkar
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The #BlindianProject podcast is brought to you by the #BlindianProject and hosted by Jonah Batambuze and co-hosts Nimal Jude and Arion Lawrence. It's a show that uses love to redefine relationships between Black x South Asian communities.
Meet the second co-host of the #BlindianProject podcast, Arion Lawrence. In this episode, Arion describes his family's journey as immigrants from the Caribbean to London, where he was born and grew up. During our conversation, Arion discusses his childhood — growing up in a working-class, predominately Black West Indian community. And, how it has impacted the person he is today. This conversation is full of gems.
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The #BlindianProject podcast is brought to you by the #BlindianProject and hosted by Jonah Batambuze and co-hosts Nimal Jude and Arion Lawrence. It's a show that uses love to redefine relationships between Black x South Asian communities.
Meet the first co-host of the #BlindianProject podcast, Nimal Jude. Listening to Nimal’s story reminded me of my childhood. Her struggles with juggling two different cultures, while also trying to find herself resonated. And I know her story as a Gujarati woman will provide an important perspective to our show.
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The #BlindianProject podcast is brought to you by the #BlindianProject and hosted by Jonah Batambuze and co-hosts Nimal Jude and Arion Lawrence. It's a show that uses love to redefine relationships between Black x South Asian communities.
In our first episode, we provide the background behind the #BlindianProject. We explain the format of the show and what we hope you’ll learn by tuning in.
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