It's An Indian Lesbian Love Story, Baby Just Say Yes!!!! with Christina Walia

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🗓️ 6 August 2024

⏱️ 36 minutes

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FULL EPISODE: Christina joins Mal this week to share her journey of coming out to her traditional Indian family and the journey that led her to her beautiful wedding in Italy. From experiencing homophobia while ring shopping, to proposing to her girlfriend on the cliffs of Santorini, this episode hits a lot of highs and lows! Christina discusses the cultural expectations she faced at home, her parents' supportive response to her coming out, and the process of planning her elopement. Follow our guest @cxwalia and follow her and her wife's TikTok account @christyxchristina Shop our FOR THE GIRLS merch: https://www.madeitoutpodcast.com/category/all-products Please don't forget to rate us on Spotify, write a review on Apple, and share this episode with your favorite camp counselor! For all other inquiries, please email [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	I never thought I was going to be able to have that Indian wedding and the red
0:04.0	lang and the girl and like I'm just here here I am like the Indian girl who did it like I
0:09.2	married my girl in a red lang and I did it the way that I wanted to do it and I'm the happiest I've ever been in my life.
0:16.4	Mm.
0:17.4	Hey all, welcome back to Made It Out. Today I'm here with Christina Walea and we are talking
0:28.8	about coming out to her traditional Indian family and planning the wedding that she's always wanted.
0:34.0	Christina, can you tell me a little bit about where you grew up and your family and your
0:38.2	culture?
0:39.2	Yeah, of course.
0:40.2	I grew up in Laredo, Texas, which is a border city to Mexico.
0:46.2	My parents moved there after my older brother was born in India.
0:52.4	So they moved across the world to Laredo for business opportunities.
0:57.7	It's a little crazy at a unique upbringing because everybody in Laredo 99.9% is Mexican.
1:05.6	So there's probably, I would say less than 20 Indian people there.
1:10.0	Wow.
1:10.7	Yeah.
1:11.6	What was that like?
1:12.8	So growing up in Laredo, it was a completely different experience
1:17.7	than you can imagine.
1:19.9	Not only was I different already.
1:22.0	I didn't know the language.
1:23.4	So English was in my first language.
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