Exploring culture and religion through memoir with Zoya Patel (recast from December 2018)

We apologise for the audio quality of some parts of this episode. It was originally published in December 2018. When we spoke to Zoya we discussed her memoir No Country Woman and the experience of writing the memoir. In this episode, we discuss:How Zoya’s family responded to her writing a memoir about her cultural and religious experiences growing up in Australia (and why this has helped them connect as a family)The power of memoir as a genre to explore cultural issuesThe deeply individual experience of race and identity, even within a family and the multiplicity of representations in the mediaFinding clarity about growing up in Australia while living and writing overseasEconomic inequality and how it works within structural racismIntersectionality of inequality and understanding why people make the choices they doThe stories we tell ourselves about individual successThe power of language and communicating confidently in EnglishBooks & other things mentionedYassmin Abdel-MagiedThe Hate Race by Maxine Beneba ClarkeFind out more about Zoya here. Follow us on Instagram @betterwordspod.