HeyJaredSisterhood of the Travelling Mgowo
A podcast between two friends where we navigate the intricacies of adulthood.
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Episode 29:Heritage Day, But Whose Heritage? | Culture, Heritage, Identity, and Tradition (opens the original)
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Heritage Day had us thinking. When did it become Braai Day? Somewhere between the specials, campaigns and Heritage Day content, it feels like we’ve lost a bit of what the day is actually meant to represent. So we got into our own cultures and what they mean to us personally. Sinesipho speaks about being Xhosa, Mixo about growing up Tsonga, and somehow we end up everywhere from language and family traditions to marriage, kneeling for men and why women always seem to be the ones working at cultura
Episode 28: GBV Is Everyone’s Problem | Silence, Accountability & Bystander Apathy (opens the original)
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Trigger warning: This episode discusses gender-based violence, murder, abuse and the deaths of women. Please take care while listening. To everyone listening, We had this conversation because of what has been happening in South Africa.At some point, we have to ask ourselves what we’re doing with all of this.GBV can’t only be a conversation for when another woman is killed. It has to be something we talk about in our homes, in our friendships, in our families and in the spaces where men are comfo
Episode 27: What Is The Internet Doing To Us? (opens the original)
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There’s a lot to unpack this week. From South African music and the importance of creating spaces to really engage with local artists, to parenting, online misogyny and the way we’re raising the next generation. We chat about Mamakashaka and Friends’ “Track by Track” initiative, what gentle parenting actually looks like beyond the internet discourse, and why we need to be careful about how quickly we turn tragedy into an excuse for violence or harsher parenting. We also get into the “pink pill”
Episode 26: Are We Pro-Choice or PROjecting Onto Women & Mothers? (opens the original)
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Let’s talk about what happens on South African social media when women announce pregnancies and the moral judgements they’re subject to when they do. We consider and challenge perceived societal expectations, conditioning and patriarchal biological timelines. In this episode, we dive deep into the recent online uproar sparked by two popular influencers announcing their pregnancies in their 30s. Exploring the stark differences in how the public reacted to both announcements based on relationship
Episode 25: Learning How to Feel My Feelings (opens the original)
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In this week’s episode, we’re getting honest about what it actually looks like to do the work on yourself. With one of the hosts approaching 32, the conversation gets into therapy, emotional regulation, ADHD, loneliness and the uncomfortable process of learning how to actually sit with your feelings instead of running from them or trying to analyse everything to death. They talk about what changed after an ADHD diagnosis, learning to understand and name their own needs, and the strange vulnerabi
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