• The Skin I'm In with Steph Tisdell

  • Aug 29 2024
  • Length: 55 mins
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The Skin I'm In with Steph Tisdell

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  • Steph Tisdell is Aboriginal (Yindiji) and white Australian. She is an actor, tv writer, former comedian and author of the YA novel The Skin I’m In.

    We chat about:

    • Her white Dad’s surprising DNA results
    • Hearts mown into lawns
    • The responsibility we feel in our family units
    • Diversity within diversity
    • Well intended white teachers
    • Bringing The Skin I’m In to life
    • How the characters relate (and don’t relate) to Steph’s life
    • The self indulgent joy of writing young adult fiction
    • Reactions to her book
    • Kinship adoption

    Hosted by: Maria Birch-Morunga and Kate Robinson

    Guest: Steph Tisdell

    Music by: the Green Twins

    Edited by: Maria Birch-Morunga

    This podcast was recorded on the lands of the Boon Wurrung and Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung peoples of the eastern Kulin Nations, and our guest joined us from land of the Turrbal and Jagera people.


    You can find us on Instagram @beingbiracialpodcast or send us an email at beingbiracialpodcast@gmail.com


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