Nuances: Our Asian Stories

A podcast about the Asian diaspora at the intersection of career, culture and community

S4 E10 Happy 🇺🇸AANHPI Heritage Month/🇨🇦 Asian Heritage Month!

I can hardly believe that it’s already been 52 episodes since May 1 2022! Thank you all so much for listening, sharing, and recommending guests or topics. It’s been an honor to be

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ABOUT THIS EPISODE

Happy Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander (AANHPI) Heritage Month! Wow, that was a mouthful. Who’s idea was it to group us all together in such a long acronym? It’s a long story but let me know if you’d like me to do a deep dive on that next time. If you’re in Canada, Happy Asian Heritage Month. At least the Canadians knew scope creep was a thing.

TOPICS:

Unequal representation in AANHPI celebrations.
Why May?
Intersectionality: Asian Settler Colonialism.
Upcoming series on “queerness” in premodern Asia.
Episode recommendations that feature underrepresented Asian perspectives.

EPISODES FEATURED

Kiran Kaur Gill (Sikh American)

⁠S3 E08: Kiran Kaur Gill on fighting Turban Myths with occupationally relevant training programs at the TSA, FBI, and other law enforcement agencies.⁠

Dani Saldo (Queer Filipino Canadian)

⁠S3 E05: Dani Saldo is a hot, talented, disabled bisexual pop-star on the rise, who had to break up with her old (able-bodied) self.⁠

Rita Phetmixay (Lao American)

⁠S3 E09: Rita Phetmixay: No such thing as boundaries in Asian culture – the Lao diaspora, owning the narrative, and healing intergenerational trauma with compassion.⁠

Soo Jin Lee (Korean American)

⁠S4 E1: Soo Jin Lee was never told she was undocumented, but she somehow knew. Also: therapy isn’t the only way to heal.⁠

Manijeh Moradian (Iranian American)

⁠S3 E03: Dr. Manijeh Moradian on why Iran isn’t always considered part of Asia, and how the West may be misinterpreting what Iranians truly want out of the current feminist revolution⁠

Travis Nguyen (Vietnamese American)

⁠S3 E06: Travis Nguyen, interpreter & translator, on working with the deaf & deaf/blind communities, how intergenerational trauma manifests in day-to-day life, and more.⁠

Qasim Rashid (Pakistani American)

⁠S2 E4: Qasim Rashid on how Islam inspires him to advocate for women, for the poor, and even for his haters, and how he remains focused in a world full of injustice.⁠

AUSLIN (Hmong American)

⁠S1 E05: AUSLIN, the artist supermom who’s breaking the cycle of intergenerational trauma she experienced as a Hmong American growing up in Wisconsin.⁠

Offering Rain (Queer Ecuadorian and Indian American)

⁠S2 E09: Offering Rain on reclaiming their Ecuadorian and Indian roots as a mixed-raced multimedia artist, and the importance of early access to the arts to increase diversity in the creative fields.⁠

Rahul Borkar (Indian American)

⁠S1 E02: Rahul Borkar on being a music artist and producer from Louisville, KY⁠

Scott Okamoto (Japanese American)

⁠S3 E07: Scott Okamoto on losing faith and becoming an English professor at an evangelical school.⁠

Cece Chow (Trans Chinese Canadian)

⁠S4 E07: Trans Day of Visibility special with Cece Chow & her son Gideon – the wholesome Asian trans representation you needed to hear.⁠

NEXT WEEK I’ll be back with episode recs for mothers day but also a new guest, Dr. Sophia Yen! We’ll be talking about women’s health, making periods optional, best to worst methods of contraception, menopause, and what is missing from sex education.

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