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Unsilenced: Voices of Young Tibetans is a podcast series where we have conversations with young Tibetans who will offer an interesting view of their lives as exiled Tibetans and their future aspiration. The podcast is also a tribute to all those brave Tibetans in Tibet who were silenced both physically and mentally by the Chinese occupiers.
In this Episode we engage with Nangsel Sherpa la who shares insight from her research theme of "Migration, Gender, Religion, and Tibetan Identity," which expounds on the complexities and intersectionality of the Tibetan identity through a subaltern perspective.
She shares her own experiences and the story of her own family, shedding light on a body of writing that is rarely discussed: the important role that Tibetan women played during the People's Republic of China's forced occupation of Tibet. Furthermore, coming from a mixed heritage background, she stresses how they and the larger non-mainstream Tibetans (those with a non-buddhist background for eg.) are an important part of the Tibetan freedom movement and Tibetan identity. She concludes by asserting that 'I hope we Tibetans can really have a country we can call our home someday.'