Her Kajal Won't Smudge

By HKWS

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Episodes: 30

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Her Kajal Won't Smudge is a podcast about South Asian women who are pushing back on desi social norms through art, content, dance, music, film, and more. We ask every guest: What does feminism mean to you? In South Asian spaces, the word “feminist” is still linked to promiscuity, selfishness or a rejection of family values. We want to unpack that. Our guests remind us that feminism isn’t one thing. It’s a way to be your fuller self, have voice, choice, and power in a culture obsessed with “what will people say?” Social norms aren’t fixed. We create them, which means we can rewrite them too.

Episode Date
Mythili Prakash - Through my dance practice, I want to blur the lines between a Goddess on a pedestal and a human woman
Apr 16, 2025
Zara Suhail Mannan - We deserve to be free here as much as our male counterparts, this is my Pakistan too
Apr 09, 2025
Kirat Assi (Sweet Bobby) - What happened to me was not just catfishing, it was online entrapment
Apr 02, 2025
Tracy Vadakumchery - I want to give my clients permission to live outside of the confines of what it means to be a “good” Indian
Mar 26, 2025
Ashfika Rahman - I want victims of abuse to confront the viewer so we can no longer look away
Mar 19, 2025
Princess Pea - My headgear is a tool, a headspace where women can share our experiences
Mar 12, 2025
Angela Saini - To say that there is fundamental difference between the minds of men and women just isn’t true
Mar 05, 2025
Jameela Jamil - The beauty and diet industries are teaching women to hate themselves for profit
Feb 26, 2025
Suddaf Chaudry - You should always investigate what most people deem inconvenient
Dec 01, 2024
Habiba Nowrose - When you have to fulfil someone else’s dream of the ideal woman, you tend to disregard what your inner voice is telling you to be
Nov 24, 2024
Sobia Ameen - Men are lucky that all feminists are demanding is equality and equity, given everything we have been through
Nov 17, 2024
Sabika Abbas Naqvi - Every time my pen raises itself to write a verse, I hope it is in favour of the oppressed
Nov 10, 2024
Zarrar Kahn - In my film, I wanted to convey the real-life horrors of living as a woman in a patriarchal world
Nov 03, 2024
Meesha Shafi - The act of speaking up has liberated me, it's been like shedding dead skin
Oct 27, 2024
Sadaf Saaz - “Women have a deep need and desire to be able to express themselves, to be empowered, to live a fulfilled life, reaching their potential”
May 02, 2024
Sarmad Khoosat - “The ideas of misogyny and patriarchy are a mindset, as opposed to a construct restricted to a gender”
Apr 25, 2024
Kate Manne and Urna Chakrabarty - “Misogyny is the metaphorical police force of patriarchy”
Apr 18, 2024
Surabhi Yadav - “Women At Leisure is a way to keep my mother’s memory alive”
Apr 11, 2024
Mira Malhotra - “If ads can sell you stuff by being witty and engaging, I can do the same with graphic design and feminist ideas”
Apr 04, 2024
Amber Arifeen - “As an artist, I have the capacity to express things that most women can’t, issues that resonate with most desi women”
Mar 28, 2024
Krantinaari of Wild Wild Women - “We don’t connect to the hip-hop that men create, so we make our own”
Mar 21, 2024
Aurat March - “We needed the Aurat March, we needed a collective feminist platform to voice our issues on the streets”
Mar 14, 2024
Swineryy - “There is no place for me in the world I’ve built, it’s just the joke”
Mar 07, 2024
Mariam Shafqat Goraya : “And my protest is obviously against misogyny. But [then] my personal anger is also about women who uphold these roles.”
Nov 26, 2023
Priyanka Paul: “I have so many marginalizations, that I’ve lost track”
Nov 19, 2023
Sheema Kermani : "I will keep dancing no matter what. Who has the right to tell me not to dance?”
Nov 12, 2023
Leeza Mangaldas : "Women's pleasure has been systematically ignored for so long"
Nov 05, 2023
Sabah Bano Malik: “ You basically stop women from being their own people so that they can be married off to someone and they decide what she'd become”
Oct 29, 2023
Radhika Vaz: “Let’s take marriage and get rid of it”
Oct 22, 2023
Trailer
Oct 10, 2023