Middle Fingers Up
di Kiran Randhawa
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EP.177 - Moses Farrow - "Put The Human Back In Humanity"
EP.177 - Moses Farrow - "Put The Human Back In Humanity"
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Welcome to Middle Fingers Up, the show where we keep our heads high and our middle fingers higher. We explore relationships, mental health and everything in between. Join me, Kiran Randhawa on the journey to learn, grow and find our voice.
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- EP.177 - Moses Farrow - "Put The Human Back In Humanity" · 1 h 54 minWe hear it all the time: What we do as parents today will impact our children's tomorrow. Okayyyyyy, and what does that actually mean? As a mom raising two teenage boys, I keep…
- EP.176 - Judith Lam Tang - "I Did Not Realize How Much All of Us Were Just Muting Our Colours" · 1 h 49 minThere are things we carry for years without realizing where we learned them. The ways we try to fit in. The parts of ourselves we change to feel accepted. The line "be the bigger…
- EP.175 - Shermin Mullan - "Youre Not Broken, You’ve Just Lost Someone" · 1 h 39 minAfter taking some time away to look after my own mental health and navigate the absolute roller coaster of perimenopause, it feels really good to be back having conversations…
- EP.174 - Moses Farrow - "I Can’t Unsee What I Now See.” · 2 h 37 min · Stagione 1 Episodio 174PART 5 OF A 5-PART SERIES Okay, here we are. The final conversation in this series with Moses Farrow. We've talked about the story, the system, the language and the impact. And…
- EP.173 - Moses Farrow -“Yes, And?” · 2 h 22 min · Stagione 1 Episodio 173PART 4 OF A 5-PART SERIES In Part 4 we're getting into the impact. We talk about adoption trauma, identity, loss, truth and some of the things happening in the world around us…
- EP.172 - Moses Farrow - "Really Pay Attention to Our Language" · 1 h 55 min · Stagione 1 Episodio 172PART 3 OF A 5-PART SERIES This time, we're talking about language. The words we use and the meanings we attach to them. Take gratitude, for example. When we talk about adoption…
- EP.171 - Moses Farrow - "Adoption Didn’t Start as a Child Welfare Solution" · 2 h 7 min · Stagione 1 Episodio 171PART 2 OF A 5-PART SERIES In Part 1, Moses Farrow and I went back into the history of adoption and started unpacking the “better life” narrative. In Part 2, we move from the…
- EP.170 - Moses Farrow - "Do We Want to Put a Price on a Human Life?" · 1 h 31 min · Stagione 1 Episodio 170PART 1 OF A 5-PART SERIES Okay so we thought we were talking about 'adoption'. But the more Moses Farrow and I talked, the more I realized there was so much more we needed to…
- EP.169 - It's Good To Gup Shup - "Disagreement Isn't Disrespect" · 27 min · Stagione 1 Episodio 169Boy moms… this Gup Shup is for us. After a recent conversation with my teenage son, I found myself reflecting on something I’ve been really intentional about while raising boys…
- EP.168 - Patty - "Is It Because I'm..." · 1 h 29 min · Stagione 1 Episodio 168Some conversations stay with you because they answer questions. This one stayed with me because it opened more of them. Patty is back on the podcast after Episode 165 because…
- EP.167 - Harvi - "Your Version Of Good Might Be Someone Else's Version of Bad" · 1 h 25 min · Stagione 1 Episodio 167This episode felt special to me. I sat down with Harvi — a soon-to-be high school graduate heading into psychology — for a conversation about growing up as children of…
- EP.166 - Andrea Samtani - "I Would Really Love For Indian Women To Start Taking Ownership For Their Own Bodies" · 1 h 36 min · Stagione 1 Episodio 166This episode is dedicated to our bodies. The Brown ones. The bloated ones. The strong ones. The “why is my head filled with negativity about my body" ones. I've been thinking a…
- EP.165 - Patty-"Nobody Talks About The Joy" · 1 h 19 min · Stagione 1 Episodio 165In this episode, I sit down with psychologist and writer Patty for a powerful conversation about the inner worlds of children of immigrants and how childhood conditioning…
- EP.164 - Mohini - "Are You Really 'Fine' Though?" · 1 h 25 min · Stagione 1 Episodio 164Wedding season is meant to be joyful, full of love, music, and celebration. However in this EP, we are naming what happens when you’re walking into those spaces carrying…
- EP.163 - Sarah Akinterinwa-"My Identity Will Never Be Straightforward - & That's Okay" · 45 min · Stagione 1 Episodio 163Featured in The New Yorker and The Guardian, Sarah is a Nigerian child of immigrants, raised in the UK and now based in Canada, whose work as a cartoonist captures the quiet…
- EP.162 - Harleen Randhawa - "My Existence Is Resistance" · 1 h 10 min · Stagione 1 Episodio 162In this episode, I sit down with artist, mother, and fellow Randhawa, Harleen, to explore what happens when we stop performing the lives expected of us and start expressing our…
- EP.161 - Nikki Roy - "Teach Yourself How To Feel In Your Body" · 1 h 14 min · Stagione 1 Episodio 161A song comes on… and I’m not here anymore. I’m in a neural time machine and 15 again. And I don’t just remember it—I feel it. In this episode, I sit down with Nikki—a therapist…
- EP.160 - Ali - "You Can't Separate Pop Culture & Politics" · 1 h 3 min · Stagione 1 Episodio 160We say it all the time: “I’m just here for the music.” But… are we? In this episode, I sit down with Ali from @itsrealitywithali to unpack something I’ve been thinking about a…
- EP.159 - It's Good To Gup Shup - "What Stories Is My Body Holding?" · 1 h 2 min · Stagione 1 Episodio 159This episode is about shifting the way we think about our bodies — even as our day-to-day bumps up against old rules, comparisons, and messages (or should we say misogynies)…
- EP.158 - It's Good To Gup Shup - "Safety Isn't Declared. It's Practiced" · 24 min · Stagione 1 Episodio 158Safe space. You’ve heard the term everywhere lately — but what does it actually mean? Who is responsible for the 'safety' part of the space? In this gup shup, we sit with a…
