So, out of the blue, I found myself dubbing last week. My friend Bishakha Datta, executive director of the non-profit Point of View, that amplifies women's voices - I'm on their board - invited me to dub a few voices for an inspiring feature-length documentary, The Baulkham Hills African Ladies Troupe. In other words, I was dubbing from English into Hindi, the voices of African women in Australia. Don't ask. I just learnt as I went along.

Theatre director Ros Horin had worked with four traumatised African women immigrants to Australia, shaping their experiences into a cathartic experience as a play, with the women playing themselves. Then, she made a documentary on the making of the play. Rosemary Kariuki-Fyfe grew up in Kenya, and was abused by her own family for years. Aminata Conteh-Biger was kidnapped at 16, and turned into a sex slave during the Sierra Leone civil war of the 1990s. Yarrie Bangura grew up in a refugee camp in Guinea, a victim of the same war. Yordanos Haile-Michael watched her father kill her mother, and at five, was forced to be a child soldier by the Eritrean army, suffering violence and sexual abuse for 15 years. Haile-Michael later told the press, that to be able to talk about her life openly in the play was amazing. "I got my life back. I got me back," she said.