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Oct 2020
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We Are Bushra Burney

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In episode 169, the girls are joined by writer and performer Bushra Burney to talk about her upcoming show The Kulfi Paradox, growing up in the Bay Area as the child of Pakistani immigrants, deciding to get into writing and performing, working with Zahra Noorbakhsh and more! Follow her on Twitter and Instagram at @BushraWriter and then go to her website to get tickets to her virtual shows here! Her show runs October 20th to the 24th.

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