Hey guys, welcome back to BFP season 2 and here we are with episode 2!

On this episode, we collab cultures, Desis & Latinos/Hispanics. This duo has a lot in common, from our frijoles and daal, to our kheer and arroz con leche, large celebrations with large families, loud senses of humor and love of music, dance and telenovela drama. Our collabs go hard too...who doesn't love of chicken tikka taco?

Clearly I have had this idea for a while...it started when I lived in Texas for a few years. During my time there, I realized that so many Desis lived there not only because of the love of heat, but also the family and cultural values of the large Hispanic and Latino*** communities influencing the environment of the cities there. I also saw that expectations within the family were similarly heavy and there were religious influences and patriarchal customs that made our upbringings conservative and restrictive when it came to trying to be authentically ourselves.

In my time in Minnesota, I came across Steph who became one of my close masc friends. She wanted to be on this show because she felt that she never saw anyone that she could look up to during her character developing years that represented what her story looked like and she wanted to shed some limelight on hers in honor of supporting what she didn't have growing up.

I hope you enjoy this special and spicy episode!!

Steph's instagram: @stephanielima51

Thank you as always to @Kwey_ for podcast production, audio editing and recording!

***In case anyone was wondering the difference between Latino/Hispanic is that Latinos is based on Latin culture and Hispanic means Spanish-speaking. For example, my friend Steph on this episode is Guatemalan and is Hispanic and not Latino and my Brazilian friend is Latino but speaks Portuguese and is not Hispanic.

Hey guys, welcome back to a brand new season of Bitch from Pakistan! Thank you for staying tuned, and for continuing this journey with me, I'm excited to share what I've got in store!

For the very first episode of the new season, I wanted to bring in someone who was a little older, wiser and who had seen and experienced the world . For a lot of us black sheep, we are the blind leading the blind haha, and I thought it would be really cool to hear from someone who had lived through it, and was on the other side of the struggle. Her being my family, made this even more special. She has always reminded me that our life can be beautiful, because we choose to make it that way. Not despite the fact that we all had to go through so much to get there but more so that we took our circumstances by the balls, and were resilient in chasing our happiness and did not take no for an answer from the universe. Look at all this hope and optimism in this new season beginning! I present to you...Meherunisa Stevie!

Meher's socials: Tik tok: masssmas ; Insta: masmas_2002

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Huge thank you to Mr. All Things Audio on this podcast, @kwey_

Hey guys, welcome back to Bitch From Pakistan! 

On this episode, we welcome Kales, an Iranian-American girly who shared a passion in collaborating to talk about what has been going on in Iran and what it means to be a descendant living in the West. We have all seen or heard of what has been going on, but there is always more to the story and it's an important one to know.

Heads up, we recorded this a few weeks back, and want to acknowledge that plenty has happened since then. A few of those things: several more people are being killed, several people are completing suicide due to the conditions, people who have been protesting are at risk of being under arrest, women are in danger of being raped and social media is being controlled to allow lack of clarity of the situation internationally. Most importantly, Iranians feel that what is happening in their country is revolutionary against the Islamic Regime, and more and more people continue to stand up everyday. 

In the age of so much information, it is important to clarify facts. I am addressing two: 1) 15,000 protestors are being imprisoned or receiving a death penalty and 2) virgin women are being raped prior to being executed. Nur Ibrahim, Snopes reporter did the fact checking and found that '"The claim that the 15,000 protestors currently imprisoned will be executed en masse is based on unfounded speculation. The claim that female prisoners will be raped before execution relies solely on reports and accounts from the 1980s about systemic sexual abuse of women in Iran's prisons." This does not undermine that people are being hurt, imprisoned and sexually harassed as those are all still very likely outcomes for the people in Iran. 

Ignorance is bliss, but not in this case. Thank you so so much for listening and for having a desire to be more aware and educated. Stay connected <3 

So much love to you for giving me your trust, time and support thus far.  BFP will be taking a break after this episode, but if you want me, I'll be back! <3