MALA: Blooms & Bad Women Podcast
1) MALA SEASON 2: CARMEN
Carmen Maria Machado's electric and wrenching memoir IN THE DREAM HOUSE details her abusive relationship with a charismatic and controlling lover in an inventive dreamscape that imagines "the dream ho...Show More
2) MALA: EPISODE 5: CLAUDE
In this final, harrowing episode of MALA, we meet Claude, who spent 25 years in prison for a crime she did not commit. Claude's dresser is covered in about thirty perfumes, and she wears a different p...Show More
3) MALA: EPISODE 4: MARY
Mary Bennett, a Marymount College graduate and counselor. Mary’s warm and inviting, she hugs me right away, and we sit on her bed for our chat. Her room smells like fresh laundry and traces of powdery...Show More
4) MALA: EPISODE 3: NIKKIE
Nikkie is the daughter of Greek immigrants. She fell in love with a fellow Greek-American man who admitted his violent past just before their wedding night. They were so deeply in love she took a chan...Show More
5) MALA: EPISODE 2: TASHA
Tasha grew up in Runyon Heights, a predominantly black suburb in Yonkers, not too far from where I grew up in Rockland County. Tasha’s story and olfactory memory bring her back to the scent of cotton ...Show More
6) MALA: EPISODE 1: SHARON
A podcast founded by novelist & perfumer Tanwi Nandini, the MALA podcast is where extraordinary women retell their stories of survival and reimagine them as scents. We’re here to unravel the notion of...Show More