Category: Beauty standards
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S4 E07: Trans Day of Visibility special with Cece Chow & her son Gideon – the wholesome Asian trans representation you needed to hear.
Trans Day of Visibility – wholesome story alert! When Cece transitioned, at 42, she was married, with two kids, and had been struggling with gender dysphoria and suicidal ideation her whole life. She feared she might lose everything but instead, she found support and healing. Today, her body feels like home.
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S3 E13: Samantha Ong on the need for representation in toys, colorism in Asian culture, and how her culturally accurate dolls sold out on launch day.
Samantha Ong is a photographer turned CEO of her own toy company. She talks about growing up in Australia, living in Canada, becoming a mom, and wanting her kids to have the representation she didn’t have when she was growing up.
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S3 E10: June Chua on learning to love herself through dance, how her films led her to Norway & Nepal, and why she moved to Berlin from Canada.
If you want to know how art can change people’s lives, you will love this episode with June Chua. We talk about how dance freed her from body image issues, how a drama class opened up her world and gave her an interest in history and current events, and how her films brought some Norwegians…
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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.
Travis Giuse Nguyen (he/él) is an interpreter and translator born and raised in Southeast Texas. We talk about how trauma responses manifest in refugee communities, how the deaf do not benefit from incidental learning like hearing folks, and the struggle of being LGBTQ in an Asian American family.
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S2 E12: Rod Kim on why an Asian Bruce Springsteen is overdue, full circle moments with his parents & music, and reclaiming his youth. BONUS: see why he gets our vote for coolest uncle!
Rod Kim on why an Asian Bruce Springsteen is overdue, full circle moments with his parents & music, and reclaiming his youth. Bonus: see why he gets our vote for coolest uncle!
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S2 E2: Charlene Vela on dance aesthetics, Asian accents, and what to do if you don’t know how to pronounce someone’s name.
Summary GUEST Charlene is a Filipino American. She was born in Switzerland and moved to the states with her parents and younger brother when she was four years old, living most of her life in Texas. During the day she works at a tech company in Austin, and in her free time she loves being…
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S1 E09: Sally on working with young people, Asian representation in media, mental health, gender roles & bisexuality.
Summary This week, Sally shares her experiences growing up as a Taiwanese-Coquitlamite-Torontonian and her thoughts on diversity and inclusivity in higher education. GUEST BIO Sally is a Taiwanese-Coquitlamite-Torontonian-Canadian, working in higher education supporting equitable, diverse, and inclusive student and student leader life beyond the classroom. TERMS Resident student leader – Also called Resident Advisor or…
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S1 E08: Edmond Chan (brqvlnfoodie) on baroque music, anti-Asian hate in LGBTQ+ spaces, protecting our elders, and #prideineverycolor
Summary This week, Edmond Chan shares his experience carving out a career as an AAPI violinist and his work on the Pride in Every Color movement. We talk about navigating racial micro-aggressions and the model minority stereotype,, protecting the elderly Asian community, and what true allyship and inclusivity looks like. GUEST BIO Corpus Christi, Texas…
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S1 E07: Cece Chow (@thetransplanter) on coming out as a trans woman after filling the role of eldest male in a Chinese family, the value of representation, and the definition of true allyship.
Summary This week, Cece Chow a.k.a @thetransplanter, shares what it was like to leave a lucrative career, come out as a trans woman, and become an advocate as someone who was previously assigned the role of the eldest male of the family. We talk about how Asian courtesy can get in the way of allyship,…
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S1 E04: Lisa Danaë on being both “not Asian enough” and “not white enough” as a mixed-race dark pop artist.
This week, Lisa Danaë chats with us about being mixed-race, trying to fit in the music industry both in the states and in the Philippines, and finally finding her voice and being accepted into the GRAMMY:NEXT program.