Category: Unconventional Career Choices

• S1 E03: Tonie on being a Vietnamese-American, nonbinary, pop artist and producer in NYC

  

  This week’s episode is as inspiring as it is educational. Tonie shares how they have navigated uncomfortable conversations around gender identity, race, and mental health as a nonbinary Vietnamese American in the music industry. We’ll also hear Tonie’s latest track “If I Took A Pill’.

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  May 16, 2022

  Advocacy, Asian American Guests, Beauty standards, Careers, intergenerational trauma, LGBTQIA+, Mental health, Music, nonbinary, Racism at school/in childhood, Unconventional Career Choices

  aapi, aapihm, Advocacy, alokvmenon, bipoc, navigating queerness, nonbinary, queer, vietnamese food recommendations, vietnamese-american

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

  

  In this week’s episode, we get a glimpse of life in Louisville, KY as a first generation American of Indian descent. Rahul Borkar joins us for a heartening conversation about his upbringing, and how his family’s unconditional support has enabled him to have a thriving music career in a genre not often praised for its…

  nuancespod

  May 16, 2022

  Asian American Guests, Careers, Music, Unconventional Career Choices

  aapi, aapihm, asian americans in rock music, breckinridge, indian american, indian diaspora, louisville ky, rahul borkar, rock music