
Prickly Peers
Have you ever wondered why some brown women can stand up to norms and stereotypes more easily than the rest of us? We call them prickly women! Is prickliness inherent or inherited, can you build the prickly muscle to be able to achieve your goals more easily, where do you lie on the prickly meter? Join Ankita and Nalini, your prickly peers, as they talk to uninhibited brown women all over the world in a quest to find the secret brown sauce for their courage, success and happiness.
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Podcasting since 2023 • 29 episodes
Prickly Peers
Latest Episodes
Malvika gaur on being more than a queer brown person in a life-partnership
Growing up in New Delhi as the youngest of the 3 daughters in a “normal” Indian family, Malvika always knew she was different than her sisters and people around. From wanting to wear a tuxedo to a wedding as a child to owning her “tom-boyish” i...
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Season 3
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Episode 8
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46:06

The "Part 2 Order": Discovering myself while transitioning from Aboli to Mrs Praful to the war widow of (Late) Major Praful Moharkar
When 17 year old Aboli fell in love for the first time, she couldn't have begun to imagine what life had in store for the both of them. Praful and Aboli didn't get to choose if and when to marry, because of the rules around
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Season 3
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Episode 7
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31:46

S03E06: Priyanka Rai - Finding life partnership with my best friend, moving across the world to live with her
Priyanka and Manisha grew up as conventional childhood best friends not knowing the future of their friendship when they got old. It turns out, whenever life got tough, through their twenties and thirties, they gravitated towards each other geo...
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Season 3
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Episode 6
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39:49

S03E05: Natasha and Bob on choosing to be in love as "unmarried" life-partners
"Hi, I am Natasha and I am divorced" was how she introduced herself to Bob the first time they met at his band's concert. Bob told her the same day, "I snore". That became the stereotypical 'love-at-first sight' beginning of this...
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Season 3
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Episode 5
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44:22

S03E04: Aditi on finding love after giving up, being too successful for arranged marriage matches
Aditi Goyal grew up in Punjab, where the norm was to get girls married between the ages of 18-21. She got into the squid games of the big fat Indian arranged marriage in her early twenties. Unlike academics, jobs and every other competitive spo...
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Season 3
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Episode 4
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47:00
