Wake + Bake

By: Priyanka Bromhead Thinesh Thillai Shetu Simone Effie Nkrumah. Darlinghurst Theatre Community Engagement.
  • Summary

  • A podcast created by the Community Engagement Team to explore the themes of Aran Thangaratnam’s theatre play “Stay Woke”. Thinesh Thillai and Priyanka Bromhead consider all the ingredients, the messy, contradicting, and occasionally chaotic parts of ourselves that often do not see the light of day, and try to reconcile them. Sometimes questionably :/. We swear we are not baked! Are you betraying your race by dating outside of it? How do you navigate the South Asian community as queer, trans and gender diverse humans? Are you Tamil if you do not listen to hip-hop? We pass the mic (read: mic), we tackle these difficult questions, and leave you with more. Let's Wake and Bake!
    Copyright 2023 Priyanka Bromhead, Thinesh Thillai, Shetu Simone, Effie Nkrumah. Darlinghurst Theatre Community Engagement.
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Episodes
  • Anti-Blackness
    Apr 12 2022

    We've all whipped and nae nae'd at a party or seven, so when Niv and Sai dance it in Stay Woke, Thinesh and Priyanka were itching to do the same. However, it also made them reflect on how Tamil people may have participated, benefited and even appropriated black art and culture in their upbringing.

    Was it a mode of survival? Was it for social capital? Was it anti-blackness? Cessalee Stovall, founder of Stage a Change, joins Thinesh and Priyanka to chat about anti-blackness and cultural appropriation in non-black POC communities. 

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    28 mins
  • Interracial Relationships
    Apr 5 2022

    Both Niv and Sai are dating people outside their race. One of the most critical aspects worth discussing in these dynamics is how power shows up in our most intimate spaces. Are you betraying your race by dating someone outside of it? How do you come to terms with the structural advantages you have grown up with?

    Timothy Bromhead, Ahilan Puhenthirar and Sophie Puhenthirar join Thinesh and Priyanka as they reflect on their experiences in being in an interracial relationship. 

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    45 mins
  • Queerness
    Mar 28 2022

    Being Queer and/or Gender Diverse is hard. Throw being a person of colour into the mix and you've got some trauma that needs to be unpacked with therapy. To be clear, a Wake and Bake is not going to suffice. In this episode, Community Lawyer and drag goddess Kavitha Sivasamy joins Thinesh and Priyanka to discuss the highs and lows in navigating our queer identities in our communities, seeing ourselves in media and entertainment, and how Che Diaz is probably not the representation we need. 

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    52 mins

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