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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Prickly Peers
S01E08: My Mother Said...why get divorced after a love marriage?
Swagatika Priyadarshini grew up in an Indian small town (Rourkela, Odisha) with big ambitions and a bold, independent mother. Her mum, her first prickly peer, didn't let societal biases around skin tone or gender ever come in the way of Swagatika becoming the best version of herself. Things took a turn when Swagatika got herself a "boyfriend" in college. Things got more difficult when years later, she decided to get a divorce.
Can our mothers, however tenacious, truly ever escape the vicious circle of societal judgement that blames them for the decisions of their adult children. If yes, how? What's the best way for the adult child to handle "disappointing the parents"? Does time really heal everything? We discuss all this and more with our last and final guest of this season.