EP.162 - Harleen Randhawa - "My Existence Is Resistance"

About this episode

Kiran Randhawa interviews Harleen Randhawa about her journey of self-discovery and resistance against societal expectations.

In this episode, I sit down with artist, mother, and fellow Randhawa, Harleen, to explore what happens when we stop performing the lives expected of us and start expressing our truth. Having immigrated to Canada as a baby, Harleen grew up in the in-between, navigating identity as a child of Indian immigrants while learning who she needed to be to belong. She shares her journey through body image struggles, fat shaming, and the pressure to be the “good girl, a version of herself shaped by fam...

People in this episode

Host: Kiran Randhawa

Guest: Harleen Randhawa

Topics covered

• identity
• body image
• immigration
• self-expression
• cultural expectations

Keywords

• identity
• body image
• fat shaming
• immigration
• self-expression

Mentioned in this episode

Places: Canada

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