The “Weird” Brown Girl Podcast

Mar 04 2023

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My body is under attack. My skin is under attack. My hair is under attack…but I still want to live. A black girl goes through a lot in Zimbabwe….and well, in the world in general. Black girls are always being attacked by societal prejudices and harmful stereotypes. This podcast may just help or shed light on our on going every day battles and ups and downs. This is a series of honest takes that will discuss the Afro vs the universe, the shade of black skin, and cultural identity amongst other topics all brought to you by The “Weird” Brown Girl’s informed opinion.

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EP 10: Keep My Hair Out Of Your Mouth!

Mar 04 2023 26 mins

Black women’s hair is always subject to scrutiny…even from black people as well. We tell each other our hair sucks so we should relax it, if it’s in it’s natural state it’s undone and unkempt. Our primary schools and high schools and Zimbabwean society tells us to cut it or relax it (colonisation, cough cough). Then naturalistas shame other black women or girls who opt fo

EP 9: Beauty Standards And Why You’ll Never Be Enough!

Feb 18 2023 14 mins

You’ll never be tall enough or thick enough or anything enough for that matter… and that’s okay!

EP 8: Yes, Toxic Masculinity Is A Thing!

Feb 11 2023 10 mins

Sure, I can blame it on the patriarchy but there’s more to it than that.

EP 7: Toxic Femininity Exists Too!

Feb 04 2023 8 mins

If there’s toxic masculinity then there’s definitely toxic femininity!

EP 6: Being a girl and trying to dress up in Zimbabwe…YIKES!

Jan 21 2023 16 mins

Sure, opening a dendairy icecream container and finding soup or beans inside sucks but do you know what else sucks? Trying to dress up as a girl in Zimbabwe…. There’s always going to be an “auntie” or “uncle” to harass you and call you a Jezebel and a clueless person who will sexualise just about anything and everything you wear simply because you’re a … drumroll pl

EP 5: Why Hating Men Is Pointless And Bad For Your Health..(sigh)

Jan 14 2023 11 mins

“ I wish we would have left the gender war in pre-school.” I didn’t know how incredibly short-sighted I was being when I claimed I hated men. I was very vocal about it too. I went the whole nine yards with my words screaming that men are trash. I thought I was being feminist but I realised I was just being sexist. My performative feminism was just disguised as sexism. I reali

EP 4: Yes, I’m A Feminist And No I Don’t Hate Men!

Jan 07 2023 17 mins

Feminism is more complicated and more nuanced than we could even begin to understand or comprehend. Let me take you on a journey of what my informed opinion of feminism is.

EP 3: Colourism Part 2: The Dark Side of Skin Bleaching.

Dec 17 2022 17 mins

Let’s talk about skin bleaching in Africa…. A child of colourism.

EP 2: Colourism Part 1 - The bashing of dark skin women and the fetishisation of light skinned women

Dec 10 2022 17 mins

Zimbabwean societies tend to be colourist whether intentionally or unintentionally….light skin is placed at the pinnacle of society…whilst dark skinned women are mocked and ridiculed. This is a brief commentary on why colourism occurs and how it affects people.

EP 1: Don’t Call Me Oreo!

Dec 02 2022 21 mins

When you’re too white for the black kids and too black for the white kids..sigh.