Society & Culture Quarina Sultana Society & Culture Quarina Sultana

Big Boys Don’t Cry

“Traditionally, men were seen as being weak or unmanly in some way if they expressed themselves through crying,” So linking this back, When I see my male friends, colleagues, and family members suppressing their feelings, hiding tears and shutting off their emotions for the fear of being called “girly” I realize how flawed our cultural upbringing has been.

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#NotAllMenButAllWomen

Earlier this month the abduction and murder of Sarah Everad in London, caused an increase in conversations of male violence towards women. I sit down with some women to discuss how safe we feel, our experiences as modern London women, male behaviours that make us women feel uncomfortable and so much more.

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Everybody has a podcast

Have we reached podcast peak? Why does everyone you know starting a podcast? What podcasts are we listening to, and what makes a good podcast? This week we discuss all of the above and also our thoughts on this new phenomena of everyone starting a podcast.

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Relationships Quarina Sultana Relationships Quarina Sultana

Kids Explain: Love

This Valentine’s Day I sit down with 5 kids (Musa, Aamir, Alisha, Mujtaba and Rida) to hear what they think love is, how to identify love, how you decide who to marry and finally how you know someone loves you.

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Brown girls in STEM

The United Nations General Assembly declared 11 February as the International Day of Women and Girls in Science and what better way to celebrate than talk with two wonderful ladies who are working in the science field themselves. 

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The Year no-one had 2020 vision

In the year we experienced major wild bushfires, almost had World war 3, both Megxit and Brexit, locust swarms in Africa, some of us stockpiled toilet paper (why? Don’t you people own a Lota?) and most bizarrely, Kanye West not only ran for President but was backed by Elon Musk & Chance the Rapper, we ask a simple question: What the hell was that?

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