We apologise for the audio quality of some parts of this episode. It was originally published in December 2018. 

When we spoke to Zoya we discussed her memoir No Country Woman and the experience of writing the memoir. 

In this episode, we discuss:

• How Zoya’s family responded to her writing a memoir about her cultural and religious experiences growing up in Australia (and why this has helped them connect as a family)
• The power of memoir as a genre to explore cultural issues
• The deeply individual experience of race and identity, even within a family and the multiplicity of representations in the media
• Finding clarity about growing up in Australia while living and writing overseas
• Economic inequality and how it works within structural racism
• Intersectionality of inequality and understanding why people make the choices they do
• The stories we tell ourselves about individual success
• The power of language and communicating confidently in English

Books & other things mentioned

• Yassmin Abdel-Magied
• The Hate Race by Maxine Beneba Clarke

Find out more about Zoya here. 

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