Join us with Sasha Kutabah Sarago to celebrate the release of Gigorou. Sasha will be in conversation with Te Raina Watego.
About the Author, Sasha Sarago
Sasha Kutabah Sarago is a Wadjanbarra Yidinji, Jirrbal and African-American woman.
A former model, Sasha grew frustrated by the invisibility of multicultural women in fashion and media. In 2011, she founded Ascension, Australia’s first digital lifestyle platform for women of colour. As a speaker, Sasha raises awareness around culture, diversity and equity in the business, media and lifestyle sectors.
Sasha’s TEDx talk, ‘The (de)colonising of beauty’, was selected as TED.com 2021 Editor’s Choice and has fuelled her passion for redefining beauty and sparking conversations around femininity and womanhood from a First Nations woman’s perspective.
As well as appearances on NITV Awaken ‘Black Is Beautiful’, SBS Insight ‘Growing Up Mixed Race’, and ABC TV’s The School That Tried to End Racism, Sasha has featured in BuzzFeed, Huffington Post, 10 Daily, Sydney Morning Herald, Frankie and Fashion Journal magazines and her writing has been published in the Guardian and SBS Voices. Sasha has also written and directed the documentaries Too Pretty to Be Aboriginal and InsideOUT, which premiered at the Melbourne Women’s Film Festival 2020.
About the facilitator, Te Raina Watego
Te Raina Watego is a Maori/Chinese woman living on Gadigal Land. Her passion for Indigenous justice started early.
Whether by giving an award-winning speech on Maori sovereignty at the tender age of 13 or being part of local grassroots Indigenous led organisations advocating for self-determination is part of her DNA.
Her why? Te Raina enjoys getting people excited about change and seeing the world be a better place.
Outside of the office, she is learning her Indigenous language, Te Reo Maori and is committed to continually learning about the intersections of faith, organising and activism.
A fan of ironic humour and slap-stick comedy, Te Raina is currently laughing her way through Cunk on Earth on Netflix.