What Would the Aunties Say?: A brown girl's guide to being yourself and living your best life

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Maybe you’ve just made a bet with your sibling and you’re here to prove them wrong, or you’re sending Christmas cards and want to get the spelling right. Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians can use ‘aunty’ or ‘auntie’ towards a woman of high esteem and earned respect, but non-Indigenous Australians should always ask whether this is appropriate.

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Well, actually, ‘aunty’ and ‘auntie’ are just informal versions of the word ‘aunt’, and so both are okay to use. And I just thought, I can't be the only one that thinks like this; there must be other brown girls out there that may feel alone and things like that. In one scene in the animated film, 13-year-old protagonist Mei, who’s started turning into a giant red panda whenever she gets emotional, sits down for a family ritual meant to control her inner panda.

Covering everything from careers, colourism, relationships and mental health, it's packed with stories and advice that will have you laughing and crying. You're almost labeled as crazy, and I think everybody is just afraid to look bad, and that's really what it comes down to. These are some of the lines you might hear from an Auntie that thinks her role as woman is to be submissive and not fight for equality. Anchal Seda is a prolific social media content creator an, presenter and culture champion based in London.

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It is still very much a stigma in the South Asian community and we’ll be discussing why and how to deal with this. We discuss her experiences as a brown woman in a predominantly white industry and the pressures of following a particular career path. Filled with humour and warmth, and based on the podcast of the same name, in What Would the Aunties Say? But if I'm honest, I don't know how I would feel about speaking to my dad's family about it, and even bringing it up to my dad has been difficult because he immediately thinks "what's wrong with you?

Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. Reenee Singh to discuss how to set boundaries, how to improve in-law relationships, and whether you should live with them after. So he was able to pull the chant into his own system, along with the 4*Town song, and do this awesome remix where we were like, ‘Oh my God, it works! He worked very closely with with each of the actors and actresses when it came time to record the chant. He tells her it doesn’t really matter — the ritual just requires participants to sing from the heart.

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I wanted to speak about certain things that would annoy me or things that I would get into a debate with my dad about at home. But then we thought, because this family is so specific, the situation is so unique — this family has this magical panda curse running through them! Things like South Asian Therapists, Brown Girl Therapy, and there's another one about gender inequality.In this episode I’m joined by Niki Mahon where we discuss why the Aunties disapprove so much and how to tackle your parents when dealing with this topic! With your influencer career and the creative path that you went down, how did that decision go down with your family? Following on from her ‘Brown Girl Confessions’ YouTube series, Anchal launched her podcast What Would the Aunties Say? But director Domee Shi and producer Lindsey Collins couldn’t just have the cast sing any random thing — they had to develop their own chant for the movie.