Category: chinese canadian
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S4 E08: Gideon – a quadrilingual high schooler with two awesome moms.
Gideon is a quadrilingual highschooler with two awesome moms. We talk about growing up in Calgary, attending a Mandarin-immersion school, learning different languages, why failure is a necessity to improve, and how older folks often underestimate his generation.
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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…