In this episode, we're unpacking intersectionality. What is it? Why is it important, and what does it mean to live an intersectional life?

In London, freelancer, editor and novelist Sharmilla Beezmohun (Co-founder of independent literature organisation Speaking Volumes) unpacks the question with Sydney filmmaker Pearl Tan, a lecturer in directing at the Australian Film, Television and Radio School, who is studying for a PhD looking at the intersectional experience of diversity workers in the screen industry. Later on in the show, UK based independent producer and curator Melanie Abrahams chats to poet and playwright Chérie Taylor Battiste on the lived experience of intersectionality.

Guests (in order of appearance): Pearl Tan, volumes.org.uk/team/">Sharmilla Beezmohun, Chérie Taylor Battiste

Interviewers: Lena Nahlous and Melanie Abrahams

Host: Lena Nahlous

Producer: Nadyat El Gawley

Music: Getaway

Credits: Co- written by MC Trey (Australia) and Savuto (Fiji) / TAPASTRY ©

Recorded at Treehouse Productions, Fiji

Video shot by Only Ideas Studio, Fiji.

This podcast is a collaboration with This Is Who We Are, a UK-Australian movement of intergenerational & intersectional women artists, producers and creatives of colour who are transforming sectors, thinking and spaces. Co-directors Melanie Abrahams (Director. Renaissance One), Paula Abood (Director of The Third Space), Lena Nahlous (Executive Director of Diversity Arts Australia and host of The Colour Cycle podcast), Nur Shkembi (Melbourne based curator, writer and scholar). Festival Curator Melanie Abrahams Project Manager: Sarah Dara. Producer Renaissance One.