Nakkiah Lui and Miranda Tapsell on 'tearing down another statue': the debutante ball

A new podcast that sets out to explore outdated traditions becomes a radical space for First Nations women to finally be heard

Amid global racial unrest and heightened attention on Indigenous incarceration rates and police violence in Australia, a podcast about debutante balls might seem like a non sequitur. But in the hands of playwright and actor Nakkiah Lui and actor and writer Miranda Tapsell, it becomes almost symbolic.

“As we’re tearing down statues of white supremacists and slave masters across the world, I love the idea of [reframing] something like the original debutante ball, which was a beacon of white colonial supremacy and patriarchy,” says Lui of their new Audible podcast, Debutante: Race, Resistance and Girl Power.

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