FREE/DEM Community Podcast: Azad lab Ep 21_Phone Is Important For Girls

2023-03-27

Azad Lab (Free To Speak) is a show which discusses issues that are often side-lined by the mainstream but are a cause for much anxiety for young people; Topics include puberty, masculinity, caste, marriage, love, democracy, freedoms etc. Episode producer Priyanka is a 21-year-old who loves to sing out of passion. She resides in Subhash Nagar in Faridabad with her family who migrated long back from Moradabad. Priyanka aims to use her DMIL skills in finding herself a job. Episode 21: Phone Is Important For G...

Azad Lab (Free To Speak) is a show which discusses issues that are often side-lined by the mainstream but are a cause for much anxiety for young people; Topics include puberty, masculinity, caste, marriage, love, democracy, freedoms etc. Episode producer Priyanka is a 21-year-old who loves to sing out of passion. She resides in Subhash Nagar in Faridabad with her family who migrated long back from Moradabad. Priyanka aims to use her DMIL skills in finding herself a job.

Episode 21: Phone Is Important For Girls!

“I use my phone to fill forms online, to study and also book tickets."

Producer Priyanka highlights the importance of owning a phone in her podcast. She brings in experiences and needs of girls in her community who owns a phone and wants to own.

Azad Lab is one of 6 shows produced as part of the Free/Dem Community Podcasts, the online avatar of the Free/Dem WhatsApp Radio run by women and girls from urban margins of Delhi. The shows are built around ideas of gender equity, love, freedom of expression, human rights and justice. Through the podcasts community members discuss and share their lived realities. The Free/Dem Community Podcasts are produced under Ideosync's FREE/DEM initiative, which provides marginalized communities - especially women and migrants - a platform to amplify their narratives and stories using audio and video.

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