Today is one of those gray, rainy, early Spring days in D.C when all you want to do is day-drink with your best friend. Who can blame you? Well, lucky for me one of my absolute favorite people in the world is also one of the most talented radio producers.

Bilal Qureshi works in Washington as a journalist for NPR and a culture writer and his work has been published in The New York Times and The Washington Post. He graduated with high distinction from the University of Virginia and received a master’s degree in broadcast journalism from Columbia. I know him from our college days at the University of Virginia (UVA), so for my very first podcast episode I had to speak with him about a world he knows so well -radio.

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Welcome to “Spilling Chai” with Anushay & Friends. You may know Anushay Hossain as the Bangladeshi-American cable news commentator who debates toxic masculinity with Tucker Carlson on Fox News or maybe you’ve read her articles on CNN about toxic white supremacy.

While Anushay may be a pro at giving her opinion and analysis on the headlines, something you don’t get to hear her do is ask the questions and talk about something other than the news.

This podcast, “Spilling Chai” is about conversations. Anushay wants to feel inspired, and radio is such a great medium to have really in-depth conversations and to take the time to have them.

In this show, Anushay is going to be talking to brilliant writers, passionate activists, and amazing artists and she wants you to join us!

“Spilling Chai” is also a PSA on behalf of all Brown people that in most of Asia and the Middle East, chai is not a latte. Instead, it’s the best kind of tea and on this podcast, we are all about spilling it.

So pour your cup and pull up a seat!

I want to begin this week by thanking you all for the warm and so very toasty welcome you gave the inaugural episode of “Spilling Chai” earlier this month. Thank you for subscribing, reviewing, and most importantly, listening to us!

So it’s isolation days here in Washington, DC and quite frankly time could not be passing any slower. We are all feeling isolated, frustrated, and frankly, scared of what’s to come. But if there’s something at the forefront of all of our minds, aside from when the heck we can get out of our homes, it’s health: Our own health, our family’s health, the health of our kids, the health of our elderly parents or grandparents.

Although we’ve been told that it’s older people who are most at risk for coronavirus, as a mother, and someone who has worked in women’s health and rights for most of my professional career, what I’ve been thinking about is what a scary time it must be right now to be pregnant. Pregnancy can sometimes be an uncertain and stressful period in the best of circumstances. But during a pandemic, that anxiety can quickly multiply.

Well, no one knows more about women’s health, especially maternal health and rights than our guest today, Dr. Jamila Taylor! Jamila recently became the Director of Healthcare Reform at the Century Foundation, and we are truly lucky to have her with us today to talk about all things pregnancy, women, and health.

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