Roots with Rowi: Let People Talk, You Do You
10/12/21 • 33 min
Our first guest for the second season is the one & only Rowi Singh!
Rowi is an Indian-Australian make-up artist, and she is hard to miss. Sometimes she covers her entire face in blue and sometimes she puts flowers on her eyebrows. Like one of my friends said recently, "this isn’t makeup, Dilpreet, this is art."
Rowi is pushing the meaning of being a creator in the fashion world today. We speak about being Punjabi, why there is pressure on Indian girls to cover up and who decides who a good migrant is.
Our first guest for the second season is the one & only Rowi Singh!
Rowi is an Indian-Australian make-up artist, and she is hard to miss. Sometimes she covers her entire face in blue and sometimes she puts flowers on her eyebrows. Like one of my friends said recently, "this isn’t makeup, Dilpreet, this is art."
Rowi is pushing the meaning of being a creator in the fashion world today. We speak about being Punjabi, why there is pressure on Indian girls to cover up and who decides who a good migrant is.
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The second guest for Roots is Sharon Johal. Sharon is an actor, writer, presenter, and one of Australia's most well-known South Asian creatives.
But apart from acting, it is speaking up where I connect with Sharon the most.
Earlier this year, Sharon released a public statement about facing racism on the set of Neighbours, easily one of Australia's biggest and longest-running tv shows.
Before her, two Indigenous actors, Shareena Clanton and Meyne Wyatt had come out with similar experiences.
It's not surprising that people were dragged for talking about race, which is often the case in white-dominated Australia; topics including racism are not taken seriously and are often dismissed or painted as a cry for attention.
It isn't easy to speak up but Sharon believes she must, and even if it is difficult sometimes, she doesn't want to choose to stay silent. And she is aware that not everybody is going to like her. As she says "no one likes a strong woman".
But how did she get here?
What is it like to be an outspoken brown woman and a public figure in Australia, to grow up in rural areas to a Sikh-Punjabi family and to go against all odds to pursue acting?
Sharon has hands-down the most unique stories to tell. For half the recording my mouth was just wide open.
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Roots with South Asian Today - Roots with Rowi: Let People Talk, You Do You
Transcript
Dilpreet 00:00
Hello, and welcome to the second season of Roots with South Asian today. My name is Dilpreet, and in this podcast series, I speak with South Asians from across the globe and try a little to explore the politics of gender, caste, class culture...life. Our first guest of the season is the one and only Rowi Singh. Rowi is an Indian Australian makeup artist, and she's hard to miss. The first time I found Rowley on Instagram. I could not stop scrolling, playing with lots of bin
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