Rumya Putcha's guest appearances

Rumya Putcha

Pretty Mental 

Selfie Reflective

Chris Henry

Mark Zuckerberg

Jason Gregory

Sarah Frier

Christy Harrison

Kelly Diels

Elliot Taylor

Jo Robertson

Sara Yamtich

Amanda Johnson

Aiesha Cosmos

Max Stossel

Charlie Morley

Alyson Charles

Brenda Marie Davies

OwlTail

For today’s podcast we sat down to have an amazing conversation with University of Georgia professor Dr.Rumya Putcha to discuss her research on the intersection between race, gender, systems of oppression and the politics of silence in the United States in general and how this shows up in wellness spaces in particular. We unpacked the ways in which we have come to often misuse the concept of self-care to avoid and turn away from difficult yet necessary conversations and the trauma caused when we allow ourselves to be silenced in the face of oppressive interactions and practices. Lastly we made sure to address what we have to do to navigate and recognize these realities while still holding space for our individual and collective racial healing.  Shownotes: Dr. Rumya Putcha The Balanced Blonde featuring Rachel Ricketts W.E.B Dubois, “The Souls of Black Folks” Peggy McIntosh, “White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack”

For today’s podcast we sat down to have an amazing conversation with University of Georgia professor Dr.Rumya Putcha to discuss her research on the intersection between race, gender, systems of oppression and the politics of silence in the United States in general and how this shows up in wellness spaces in particular. We unpacked the ways in which we have come to often misuse the concept of self-care to avoid and turn away from difficult yet necessary conversations and the trauma caused when we allow ourselves to be silenced in the face of oppressive interactions and practices. Lastly we made sure to address what we have to do to navigate and recognize these realities while still holding space for our individual and collective racial healing. Shownotes: <a href="http://rumyaputcha.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Dr. Rumya Putcha</a> <a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ep-187-ft-rachel-ricketts-spiritual-activism-anti-racist/id1169052792?i=1000478335600" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Balanced Blonde featuring Rachel Ricketts</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Souls_of_Black_Folk" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">W.E.B Dubois, “The Souls of Black Folks”</a> <a href="https://www.racialequitytools.org/resourcefiles/mcintosh.pdf" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Peggy McIntosh, “White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack”</a>

26. Challenging the Politics of Silence with Dr. Rumya Putcha

Rumya Putcha is an assistant professor at the University of Georgia, whose research interests centre around post-Enlightenment, colonial and anti-colonial thought ~ Are you someone who has donned your Lulu's, put on the self-timer, struck a yoga pose and captured a photo to post on Instagram, maybe without even going a class? Have you ever added a motivational quote or hash-tagged the word namaste under said Instagram post? Perhaps you're more like me, a casual observer whose feed delivers a steady stream of ubiquitous aspirational yoga imagery. Whenever you see it, you can't help but feel a tug of inadequacy - because in our online sphere in particular, yoga imagery has become a symbol for female empowerment. Discipline. Self-care. Enlightenment. A commitment to reaching for a higher calling. But have you ever stopped to ask - why does so much of the imagery and aspirational ideals surrounding yoga centre white women (often young, conventionally attractive white women)? What is the pull of the pose on social media? What are the people who partake in yoga culture online trying to signal? And is it possible that some good intentions fall flat..? Today's guest is Rumya Putcha, an assistant professor of women's studies and music at the University of Georgia. Her research interests centre on post-Enlightenment, colonial and anti-colonial thought, particularly around constructs of citizenship, race, gender, sexuality, the body, and the law. I discovered Rumya's work after a friend sent me one of her blog posts entitled, Yoga and the Maintenance of White Womanhood. In that article, Rumya unpacks how yoga imagery and yoga puns have become a signaller for white virtue, inclusiveness, and an individual spirituality that cannot be criticised. She explores why this is a damaging and concerning trajectory - and in this episode, we explore these ideas further in conversational form. Topics include virtue signalling, appropriation, namaste puns, neoliberalism, the colonisation of yoga, the performance of spirituality, spiritual bypassing and more. Shownotes: Find out more about Rumya's professional work here, or to have your mind blown, take a look around her blog, Namaste Nation. Tweet your thoughts to @SelfieReflect 

Rumya Putcha is an assistant professor at the University of Georgia, whose research interests centre around post-Enlightenment, colonial and anti-colonial thought ~ Are you someone who has donned your Lulu's, put on the self-timer, struck a yoga pose and captured a photo to post on Instagram, maybe without even going a class? Have you ever added a motivational quote or hash-tagged the word namaste under said Instagram post? Perhaps you're more like me, a casual observer whose feed delivers a steady stream of ubiquitous aspirational yoga imagery. Whenever you see it, you can't help but feel a tug of inadequacy - because in our online sphere in particular, yoga imagery has become a symbol for female empowerment. Discipline. Self-care. Enlightenment. A commitment to reaching for a higher calling. But have you ever stopped to ask - why does so much of the imagery and aspirational ideals surrounding yoga centre white women (often young, conventionally attractive white women)? What is the pull of the pose on social media? What are the people who partake in yoga culture online trying to signal? And is it possible that some good intentions fall flat..? Today's guest is Rumya Putcha, an assistant professor of women's studies and music at the University of Georgia. Her research interests centre on post-Enlightenment, colonial and anti-colonial thought, particularly around constructs of citizenship, race, gender, sexuality, the body, and the law. I discovered Rumya's work after a friend sent me one of her blog posts entitled, <a href="http://rumyaputcha.com/115-2/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Yoga and the Maintenance of White Womanhood</a>. In that article, Rumya unpacks how yoga imagery and yoga puns have become a signaller for white virtue, inclusiveness, and an individual spirituality that cannot be criticised. She explores why this is a damaging and concerning trajectory - and in this episode, we explore these ideas further in conversational form. Topics include virtue signalling, appropriation, namaste puns, neoliberalism, the colonisation of yoga, the performance of spirituality, spiritual bypassing and more. Shownotes: Find out more about Rumya's professional work <a href="https://wmst.franklin.uga.edu/directory/people/rumya-putcha" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">here</a>, or to have your mind blown, take a look around her blog, <a href="http://rumyaputcha.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Namaste Nation</a>. Tweet your thoughts to <a href="https://twitter.com/selfiereflect" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">@SelfieReflect </a>

Posing as Spiritual - Yoga Culture with Rumya Putcha