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Pod#121 - Mystapaki - Photojournalism, Representation, Privilege, Fitness!
Category: Society & Culture
Duration: 01:10:22
Publish Date: 2021-09-20 02:00:06
Description: Bilal Hassan aka Mystapaki is on the show this week! Prolific Instagram photojournalist, contributor to publications like Dawn, The Guardian, Vice and more, buff dude and also some a psychiatrist, Bilal's a busy man. Lucky for us we were able to nab him for a chat where we talk about all of it! Check out the chapters below and also the links to some of his works he mentions in the episode! Things discussed in this episode: 00:00 Intro 02:18 Small talk intro & COVID catchup 06:57 Why we had to get him on the show & how he got into photojournalism 12:48 The FIFA World Cup in Lyari, working with Vice, Karachi tours 19:33 How does he manage his life as a doctor with all the social media work? 24:56 The Pandemic pushes him to take the social media work more seriously 30:23 Planning trips in advance and the Gwadar trip 32:35 Balance pressures with a larger audience to “speak up” vs taking up space 40:59 The realities and results of expressing opinions on the internet 49:17 Getting into the podcast world with Patari! 54:43 His dreams of writing a book! 57:40 His fitness journey! He STARTED working out in the pandemic! 1:03:19 Jinn story! 1:07:14 People’s misconceptions & outro LINKS: Bilal's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mystapaki/ 1. Bilal's Lyari piece: https://www.dawn.com/news/1416428/for-a-second-youd-be-mistaken-into-thinking-that-neymar-and-messi-were-from-lyari 2. Meeting Balochistan's first female vlogger: https://www.instagram.com/p/CMhmUKhnIA-/ 3. His video with AJ Plus on toxic masculinity in Pakistan: https://twitter.com/ajplus/status/1421851966771056644 Support the podcast by becoming a monthly patron on Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/tprpod) or send a one-off token on Ko-fi (https://ko-fi.com/tprpod)! Find all our previous episodes on SoundCloud, Spotify & Apple Podcasts and follow us all on Twitter! Links to everything below! SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/tprpod Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/6PvTahp... Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast... Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tprpod/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/TPRPod Ali: https://twitter.com/themaholupper Rizwan: https://twitter.com/RizwanTakkhar Sarkhail: https://twitter.com/Sarkhail7Khan --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/tprpod/support
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