Last year, BBC Asian Network launched a program title Brown Girls Do It Too, a six-episode sex podcast hosted where three millennial British women of second-generation Bangladeshi, Indian and Iranian heritage talk about the stigma around sex.
Poppy Jay, Rubina Pabani, and Roya Eslami, talk about their sexual escapades and discoveries from racial festishes to Tinder romances. A unique show of its kind, these women bust taboos around misperceptions about South Asian British women. While all the three women echo their concerns around what their parents would think of them after listening to such brazen discussion around sex Rubina Pabbani insisted that this podcast was aimed at opening up the debate around sex in the South Asian Community and why it is important for families to start having these conversations with their children. Pabbani said,
“It’s not about destroying ties to our culture or religion or communities. Other Asians seeing me a certain way might make bridges for women after me, to be able to be freer and to speak. I’m fine with it.”
In this podcast, these women debunk stereotypes that brown women are oppressed and without autonomy and that we live sexless lives outside of marriage.
In a statement to the HuffPost Poppy Jay said, “We’ve all dated white men who make assumptions about you. They presume you love Bollywood dancing or that what you are doing with them is a little bit sordid rather than natural and normal, because you’re sleeping outside of your race. We don’t just wear saris and make samosas – there is way more to us. And it’s annoying to even have to say: there’s more to us than curry and Bollywood dancing. You just get so bored by it.”
