Priya Joi | Surviving being 'othered' and why nothing should scare you.
The Emma Guns Show
Emma Gunavardhana
4.8 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 9 April 2023
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Summary
How is your relationship to risk impacted by being a science journalist who is at the frontline of breaking stories like Ebola, HIV and, of course, Covid-19? That’s something I wanted to unpick with Priya Joi, who writes for New Scientist and the World Health Organisation, during our conversation.
Priya’s life lessons are informed by a period of chronic fatigue in her 20s that left her housebound and wondering if she’d ever be able to travel or live the life she loved, again.
Priya’s rational and compassionate view of life and what it throws at you is a real pleasure to listen to.
Priya’s book Motherland is available now.
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| 0:00.0 | evolution to come back to my science route. It is what we all do every single day. |
| 0:06.4 | After I had chronic fatigue and then I recovered, I just thought I feel like I've been given |
| 0:11.0 | this second chance at life and I'm going to squeeze every drop. My parents are immigrant parents. |
| 0:16.4 | When I said I was leaving this incredible, secure, well-paid job, they must have had a lot of |
| 0:22.8 | thoughts. I was so bruised and I was so messed up. This marriage had ended so quickly, |
| 0:28.3 | but COVID seemed to be affecting everyone. It changed the way I reported because I would always |
| 0:32.8 | be reporting about something happening over there and this was stuff that was making me lie awake |
| 0:38.8 | at night. Parents are so worried that their kids are going to see skin colour but not telling them |
| 0:43.7 | about race or racism. I don't think so. Anything really. We all want the same things. We all want to |
| 0:48.4 | know truths about ourselves, about the world and how we work and science just does it in a way |
| 0:53.8 | that I found really fascinating. |
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