Sofie Buligis's Love Letter to Being Celup

In this episode, Sofie talks about the word celup, as she grapples with her own celup-ness and what it means to not fit neatly into the Malay box of the CMIO.Listen to hear about:what celup means, and Sofie’s journey towards understanding her own celup-nessher complex heritage — Javanese, Boyanese and Indian — and why her name leaves her with many unanswered questionsa grandmother who was given a Malay identity card despite being of Chinese and Indian heritagebecoming super duper halal as a form of teenage rebellionfinding belonging in a P. Ramlee filmmusic in her family, a grandfather with a music room, and a household where everyone had to learn an instrumenther admiration for her mother’s fierceness, and her belief in the power of her own softnessthe pain of having to put her Malayness in her back pocketthe lack of roles — and nuance — for brown actors in Singaporeher advice for others struggling with their own celup-ness Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.