Pretty For An Aboriginal Podcast
1) Bonus Live Episode with Ta-Nehisi Coates: Between Hope and Anger
If you thought we’d disappeared, think again! Nakkiah and Miranda have a treat for you. Recently, at the Melbourne Writers Festival, they sat down with journalist, memoirist and comic book writer Ta-N...Show More
2) Bonus Episode Live From The Sydney Opera House: Black Panther & Colonisers
In this special live episode, presented and recorded at the Sydney Opera House as part of the All About Women festival, Nakkiah and Miranda are joined by actor and budding director Shari Sebbens to un...Show More
Bonus Episode Live From The Sydney Opera House: Black Panther & Colonisers
57:42 | Mar 16th, 2018
3) Bonus Episode Live From Junket: Race Matters
We decided to record a bonus episode because recently Australia’s prime minister Malcolm Turnbull landed a pretty big blow on Indigenous Australians. Last week, he rejected the Indigenous Voice to Par...Show More
4) Episode 8: We're All Superheroes (with Blessing Mokgohloa & Arka Das)
In a perfect world Miranda Tapsell would be the star of a wildly successful rom-com, or a franchised superhero film. The Frances Ha or Jessica James of Australia, or an Aboriginal Storm in the next ed...Show More
5) Episode 7: It May Take A Woman To Lead The Fight (with Sarain Fox)
Nakkiah and Miranda talk about race even when they’re not talking about race. It permeates their daily experience. Across the first season of Pretty For An Aboriginal, Nakkiah and Miranda have talked ...Show More
6) Epiosde 6: What U Say? (with Shari Sebbens)
In this episode Nakkiah and Miranda talk to acclaimed stage and screen actor Shari Sebbens about code switching, why Taika Waititi is the mentor aspiring filmmakers of colour need, and why accents are...Show More
7) Episode 5: Black Beauty & How To Be A Boss (with Marina Go)
In this episode Miranda Tapsell and Nakkiah Lui, share stories with former Dolly editor Marina Go about perceptions of beauty in Australia, and discuss how beauty is being defined on Aussie TV and in ...Show More
8) Episode 4: Sex & Power (with Emily Sears)
In this frank episode, Nakkiah Lui and Miranda Tapsell talk to LA-based, Melbourne model Emily Sears about the begetting of power through provocative imagery, why sexy women are feared, and why sexy b...Show More
9) Episode 3: Big Sexy Love (with Roxane Gay)
In this wide-ranging interview with American writer and essayist Roxane Gay, Nakkiah and Miranda trade stories about their mutual love of ice skating; compare experiences with weight loss and surgery;...Show More
10) Episode 2: American Heroes and White Allies (with Yael Stone)
When Nakkiah and Miranda drew up their interview wish list for the podcast it was dominated by African American actors, writers and musicians. Like so many other young Australians, Miranda and Nakkiah...Show More