Episode 157: Raga Olga D'silva

Coming Out Pod

Health & Fitness, Sexuality, Comedy, Mental Health

4.9 • 584 Ratings

🗓️ 21 July 2021

⏱️ 74 minutes

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We absolutely adore speaker, author, and host Raga Olga D'silva, whose warmth and positivity will literally BLEED THROUGH YOUR HEADPHONES! Raga discusses the surprising way in which sexuality and gender are thought of in patriarchal Indian culture, and the impact that has had on her. She also talks about realizing she was a lesbian when she was married with two young children, her close-knit community's reaction, and the important distinction of martyrdom vs. nurturing. Plus: Bollywood!

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0:00.0	Hey everybody.
0:07.0	Hey y'all.
0:09.0	Welcome! This is Coming Out with Lauren and Nicole. We are a weekly podcast where we have on queer folks from all walks of life.
0:17.0	They tell us the tales of how they came out to friends, family, and the world at large.
0:22.1	Because who doesn't love a coming out story?
0:24.9	We have a very exciting guest today.
0:27.2	We are here with host, speaker, and author Raga de Silva.
0:32.7	Hi Raga.
0:34.0	Hi, Lauren and Nicole.
0:35.4	Hi. Raga is joining us from London.
0:39.0	So we're doing a transatlantic episode.
0:42.6	And basically, I went to a party, which already is kind of a rarity for me, but I went to a party where I didn't know anybody.
0:53.9	And I was talking to this lovely woman I just met, and obviously the podcast came up,
0:59.9	because that's 90% of what I talk about to strangers.
1:03.5	And she said, oh, what's your podcast about?
1:05.1	And I said, it's a coming out podcast.
1:06.5	And this woman was like, I've got a guest for you.
1:09.6	And she told me about Raga, who they had been
1:13.3	working on something as well. And I was very excited to get to speak to you. We've WhatsApped a little,
1:21.1	but I made sure that we didn't really know anything about your stories. So this is sort of like, this will be, you know,
1:29.9	the first time Nicole and I are hearing anything. But before we launch into stuff, do, is there
1:35.5	anything you'd like to say about about what you do, who you are, anything like that?
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