Good Girls Eat Dinner
Welcome to Good Girls Eat Dinner, the most interesting dinner party you'll ever go to, now in takeaway form.
Since 2015 we’ve been on a mission to provide more visible, female role models across the creative industries and beyond. At our popular real-life events we serve up four gloriously inspiring female speakers between the courses of a delicious meal. It always leaves everyone hungry for more, so here on the podcast we’ll dedicate a whole episode to each incredible guest. We won't be eating dinner but you certainly can!
Join me, Jo Wallace (Executive Creative Director by day, founder of Good Girls Eat Dinner by night) as I ask female pioneers to share their experiences, stories and advice. To leave you full of inspiration.
Good Girls Eat Dinner
S1 E4: Jaspreet Kaur – How a passion for education and supporting mental health led to writing Brown Girl Like Me: the essential guidebook for South Asian girls and women.
Jo welcomes the brilliant wordsmith, Jaspreet Kaur, to the Good Girls Eat Dinner podcast.
Known also by her online handle 'Behind the Netra', Jaspreet is an award-winning spoken word artist, educator and author from London. Her book, Brown Girl Like Me, is an inspiring memoir and empowering manifesto that equips women with the confidence and tools they need to navigate the difficulties that come with an intersectional identity.
Jaspreet is passionate about gender issues, taboo subjects and encouraging positive social change in both the Asian community and wider society. Her work tackles issues related to gender discrimination, mental health stigma, the postcolonial immigrant experience, and more. A regular on the BBC and Sunday Morning Live, Jaspreet is currently a Research Fellow at Birkbeck University's Centre for British Political Life. She has also worked with the UN on the HeforShe campaign.
**BONUS** Jaspreet shares some of her incredible poetry during the podcast.
Topics covered:
- How it felt growing up in a Punjabi family in the UK
- Teaching history, sociology and politics with relevance
- The mission to educate beyond the classroom
- How creative expression is so vital for mental health
- Overcoming terror to perform poetry live at an open mic night
- Being brown, female, opinionated…and invisible
- Writing the book you wish you’d had as a teenager
- Real South Asian women vs outdated stereotypes
- Pitching and publishing a book
- Being told ‘The brown community doesn’t read’
- Beauty ideals and body image – feeling othered
- Allyship to coalition
- Cultural appropriation
- Jaspreet’s Doggy Bag of advice
More information on Japreet's work and the courses she has available here: https://www.behindthenetra.com/
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