What Kind of Asian Are You? – Détails, épisodes et analyse

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Minerva Navasca’s Bio:

Minerva Navasca is a Filipina-Canadian filmmaker exploring narratives of cultural dysphoria and girlhood with intimate specificity. Stating, “I want to make films about subjects that make me uncomfortable,” Minerva delves into perspectives steeped in anxiety and internalized shame, using the medium to interrogate the socio-political roots of these beliefs.  She is a 2022 & 2024 TIFF Next Wave Alumni, and the winner of the 2024 BFI Future Film Festival Best Documentary Award. She collaborated with NBC Universal and Canada Walk of Fame as part of the Future Storytellers Program.

A conversation with Minerva @minervanavasca, a conversation about being Filipino-Canadian, being a female POC filmmaker and the filmmaking industry, and creating film and art that explores and digs into one’s experiences that are often uncomfortable and hard to process.

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https://www.minervanavasca.com/
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Desync’s Instagram
https://www.instagram.com/desync.shortfilm?igsh=aHd4OHhtc2tlMG5l
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List of Available Screenings for Minerva’s work:

October 15-19 2024 - Alpavirama International Youth Film Festival, Ahmedabad, India

October 17 2024 - Bushwick Film Festival, New York City NY

October 19 - Hamilton Film Festival, Hamilton ON

October 22 & 26 2024 - Forest City Film Festival, London ON

October 26 2024 - Micheaux Film Festival, Los Angeles CA

October 26 2024 - Durham Region International Film Festival, Oshawa ON

October 28 2024 - SCAD Savannah Film Festival, Savannah GA

October 31 to November 8 - Singapore Youth Film Festival, Singapore

November 6-10 2024 - Yellowknife Film Festival, Yellowknife NWT

November 8 2024 - Ottawa Canadian Film Festival, Ottawa ON

November 9 2024 - FilAm Creative Film Festival, Los Angeles CA

November 7-10 2024 - Vancouver Asian Film Festival, Vancouver BC (exact date TBC)

November 7-16 2024 - San Diego Asian Film Festival, San Diego CA (exact date TBC)

November 8-11 2024 - FilAm Creative Film Festival, Los Angeles CA (exact date TBC)

November 13-17 2024 - Mighty Niagara Film Festival, St Catharines ON (exact date TBC)

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SEASON FIVE FINALE!

Our guest today, Johnathan Gibbs known as Jonahsahn and formerly blasianFMA.

He’s 100% Black 100% Filipino and according to him the OG Blasian of the internet. He has been creating content on the internet since 2008 and is one with many hats. He’s a content creator, activist, gamer, chorister and Gayasian.

In our conversation, he shared his Blasian upbringing, being an activist for Black and Asian issues, Blasian representation, and Black and Asian unity. We also touched on whot’s the final boss in America (listen to the end to find out what that is).

Thank you for tuning in and supporting this podcast. We would not be four years deep in this podcast game without all of your support. We hope to continue to bring you the conversations of the Asian diaspora that y’all want to tune into. We will take a short break and be back later to continue spotlighting the Asian diaspora and making sure our voices get heard.

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Conversation with Wuxia author, JF Lee

A conversation on growing up as an Asian Diaspora (Singaporean Chinese Canadian) in Vancouver, Canada, studying in the States, being an accountant, living in the Cayman Islands, becoming a Wuxia author, and an introduction to the Wuxia genre along with recommendations. 

What is Wuxia?
Wuxia is a genre of Chinese fiction that features itinerant warriors of extreme (almost supernatural) martial arts skill in ancient China. These aren’t your average heroes. We’re talking people that can fly through the trees, cross vast distances in a single leap, reverse the flow of blood in the body with internal qi, and other amazing, superhuman feats. They travel around righting wrongs, helping people, and being good guys.

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Cecile (@punnyplatters) - HAPA (Chinese-American identity) Cecile is a creative focusing in writing, film, and art. We had a conversation about her mom's family migration history to America from China during the revolution, her hapa identity, reconnecting with her Asian roots through language learning, her experience living and working in China and just everything about being Hapa.Check out her instagram for her cool art and also be on a lookout of her youtube channel that she is launching. THANKS FOR LISTENING!Subscribe to WHAT KIND OF ASIAN ARE YOU? PODCAST ON YOUR STREAMING PLATFORM! Follow Cecile: @punnyplatters https://www.instagram.com/punnyplatters/Follow Kyle: @kyle.lkhhk https://www.instagram.com/kyle.lkhhk/Credits:Theme Music Intro: m-train-dpa.wav by hkmtrhah / Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC BY 3.0) / https://freesound.org/s/371934/Outro: Cinematic industrial outro by Drakensson / CC0 1.0 Universal (CC0 1.0) Public Domain Dedication / https://freesound.org/s/447538/--- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/whatkindofasianpod/message

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S1E9 - Vaidehi Gajjar (@vgajjar95)

“While there is togetherness in loneliness, there is togetherness in healing” - Vaidehi Gajjar 

In today’s episode, I had a conversation with Vaidehi Gajjar. Vaidehi is an Indian-American diaspora Asian in the hospital management field with side hustles in writing, advocacy, and journalism. Her passions include writing, mental health advocacy, and South Asian representation. Her works have been published, displayed, and shown in many different platforms. She has a book coming out called, “I’m not Crazy” Anthology so check that out!

We talked a lot about things like:

-Indian American identity especially during post-9/11 times

-Writing as a way to get through difficult times

-Family expectations for Asian American kids

-Mental health struggles (depression, anxiety, anorexia, burnout)

-South Asians and mental health

-Asian representation being South Asian

-Her book launch - I’m Not Crazy Anthology

-Indian Caste system

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S1E8 - JORDAN LEUNG (@69RANCH), HONG KONG AMERICAN COMEDIAN 

In this episode, I got the super funny Jordan Leung on the podcast. 

We talked about his journey and his experience being a third culture kid that moved to America by himself for high school and how he was super smart (Columbia master actuarial science grad) and having a pretty solid career before he branched off to just doing stand up comedy and content creation. 

We also talked about how doing stand up comedy in America and in Hong Kong is different in terms of audience and also the languages. Last, we talked about Uncle Roger and how he's funny and okay despite the accent. 

Follow Jordan on Instagram: @69ranch https://www.instagram.com/69ranch/?hl=en

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Alex is an Indonesian Canadian living in Canada, studying International Relations. His parents have an interesting background compared to our typical diaspora Asian immigrant parents. Both his parents are Indonesians that were born and raised in Europe that had Alex in Indonesia before moving the whole family to Canada where they live now. 

In the episode, we talked a lot about Alex's experience growing up in an Asian majority area of Canada (Markham) and his unique family background and how that led to some interesting questions and thoughts for him in terms of his identity/culture and his overall "Asian-ness" . We also talked about our thoughts on Subtle Asian Traits and how Alex feels comfortable in the Subtle Asian Traits bubble in terms of his identity as Diaspora Asian. Last, we also talked a lot about Asian geopolitical issues. 

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S1E6 -----GUEST: GRACE (LIVEANDLEARN88.COM) (@GRACE7127)In today’s episode, I had a conversation with Grace (liveandlearn88.com), a blogger and translator of Chinese novels online. She is a Hong Kong-Canada Diaspora Asian. We covered topics like: Having a strict Chinese dad and feeling pressured being in a strict Chinese family that doesn’t appreciate one’s creative talents Identity clash (Western vs Eastern values) Blogging and translation journey as a full time job Experience with autoimmune disease Changing of mindset from thinking only for the family to thinking for oneself as wellMake sure to check Grace out:@grace7217liveandlearn88.comTheeunuch.comWuxiaworld.comVolarenovels.comLast, Follow me on Instagram @kyle.lkhhk and make sure to subscribe to the podcast on your streaming platform.Thanks for listening and supporting!Credits:Theme Music Intro: m-train-dpa.wav by hkmtrhah / Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC BY 3.0) / https://freesound.org/s/371934/Outro: Cinematic industrial outro by Drakensson / CC0 1.0 Universal (CC0 1.0) Public Domain Dedication / https://freesound.org/s/447538/--- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/whatkindofasianpod/message

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My conversation with Filipino-American Jackie of MY KIDS THINK I'M COOL, BUT... PODCAST.  In our conversation we talked about: -Growing up in America as an immigrant. -Her identity and her relationship with her culture (Filipino and American). -Dropping everything at age 26 to go travel for a year -Meeting her now husband who is a Dane living in Denmark and their journey together as a couple. -Moving to Denmark to be with her now husband. -Raising her kids in Denmark and how she finds parenthood. -Her podcast and her business venture all about providing a place for people to learn about the ups and downs of being a parent raising children in a country that they didn't grow up in.  Make sure to follow Jackie on social media and check out her podcast and online venture. Links all down below.  Jackie on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mykidsthinkimcoolbut/ Jackie's podcast website: https://www.mykidsthinkimcoolbut.com/ Jackie on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/mykidsthinkimcoolbut Jackie's online directory: https://kiddoly.com/?fbclid=IwAR2s1gkciRPKoYvKHdwVc-dh9Y0A2UgTpWg-IqO8KmUFXZyVIlmPxN7TNig Last, thank you for listening and I hope you continue to enjoy the content I produce. Please follow WHAT KIND OF ASIAN ARE YOU？ PODCAST on whichever streaming platform you use and follow me on Instagram: @kyle.lkhhk Again, thank you so much for the support, and as usual more content coming your way. 

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S1E4

Conversation with HK-born British Diaspora Asian, Janice from Chit Chat East West Podcast (https://podcasts.apple.com/hk/podcast/%E6%9D%B1%E8%A5%BFchitchats-podcast/id1528850768?l=en).

We talked about:

 -Her experience growing up in the UK 

-Her identity issues

-Racism

-Her interracial relationship

-Eastern vs western values 

-Working in Egypt 

-Being Asian and what we have to experience as diaspora 

Follow Janice on Twitter: https://twitter.com/SailorJanitor  @SailorJanitor

Follow Janice's podcast:  https://twitter.com/chitchatew?lang=en @ChitChatEW

https://podcasts.apple.com/hk/podcast/%E6%9D%B1%E8%A5%BFchitchats-podcast/id1528850768?l=en

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https://podcasts.apple.com/hk/podcast/%E6%9D%B1%E8%A5%BFchitchats-podcast/id1528850768?l=en&i=1000495522472

Follow Kyle on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kyle.lkhhk/  @kyle.lkhhk 

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