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Diving into the Uncomfortable - Minerva Navasca | EP 98
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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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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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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“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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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
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Another episode with my good friend Robin (@conroc) where we continued to have deep talks. We talked a lot about mental health, seeking out therapy/professional health to help with figuring out what to do when feeling lost and not having direction in life during our adulthood. This podcast episode was all about feelings and talking about feelings which men in general are pretty bad at doing, so it was nice Robin and I were able to talk about our feelings to each so freely. We also talked about growing up in and Asian family in the west and about being old and how we still got to get out of our comfort zone in order to grow and improve. It was a great conversation, so don't miss out and listen to it!
We went pretty deep again so make sure to listen to the whole episode. And if you want to follow Robin, check him out on Instagram at @conroc. And if you want to follow me on Instagram, you can at @kyle.lkhhk.
Again thank you so much for listening and supporting the podcast. I really appreciate it. I hope you enjoy this episode and make sure to share with your people if you find this entertaining and valuable. Now here is WHAT KIND OF ASIAN ARE YOU? PODCAST S1E3.1 FEATURING ROBIN.
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I am back with another episode and this is going to be a very very special one. I have my good friend Robin on the podcast this episode to just shoot the shit with me. It was such a good time that we recorded over 3 hours of podcast material. That’s crazy when I usually just record 1 hour at most with my guests. So this is why our recording will be split into 2 parts. And this is part 1 of my conversation with Robin. To give you a brief intro of Robin, he’s a good friend of mine that I came to know from Jack from DIU Podcast. Robin is an all around creative guy that does so much creative stuff. He likes to Bboy, rap, make music, podcast, design, and pretty much anything that allows him to be creative. He is someone all about the feel good vibes and doing dope shit. In part 1 of our conversation we talk a lot about, social media and the good and the bad of it, how we need to not look at everything just on the surface level and be sure to ask questions, being confrontational and standing your ground when white people mess with you, Robin’s childhood where Asians were not cool and what got him into Hip Pop with MC Jin being his inspiration, freestyle battling people at school and how Filipinos are just so trendy all the time.
We went pretty deep and we still have so much to cover in part 2 of our conversation so make sure to stay tuned for that when it drops. And if you want to follow Robin, check him out on Instagram at @conroc. And if you want to follow me on Instagram, you can at @kyle.lkhhk.
Again thank you so much for listening and supporting the podcast. I really appreciate it. I hope you enjoy this episode and make sure to share with your people if you find this entertaining and valuable. Now here is WHAT KIND OF ASIAN ARE YOU? PODCAST S1E3.1 FEATURING ROBIN.
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In today's conversation, I talked to Nina, a Vietnamese Canadian from the podcast PASS THE POUTINE, a podcast that Nina produces, records, and edits on her own.
We talked a little about her family's history being refugees in Hong Kong after the Vietnam war, their time living in Canada after immigrating, her experience growing up in Canada not feeling Vietnamese, her time working abroad in Asia, and of course talked about her podcast, PASS THE POUTINE and about the journey of podcasting.
Throughout our conversation, she keeps dropping gems like:
1. How petty her Asian dad is
2. The Vietnamese Hustle Lifestyle and how Vietnamese Men are like
3. How she ate in the teacher's room during lunch because no one wanted to eat with her
4. How she ended up making friends in high school with Korean international students
5. Travelling to Korea and Vietnam after she graduated high school at 18
6. Her podcast journey, recording podcasts with strangers in her car
7. How Asian American men be winning on Tinder in Asia and how it is very easy to get an Asian girlfriend as an Asian American men
8. How she didn't feel Vietnamese growing up as she was like the classic ABG (or if you are old and Canadian, you called them NAMMER GIRLS)
9. Being Vietnamese Canadian
If you want to follow PASS THE POUTINE, search "PASS THE POUTINE" on Facebook, Instagram and also all streaming platforms where you listen to podcast.
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Today's episode is with a very talented designer, Grace Chen.
Our conversation covers her story of being born in China, growing up in the Bay, her work in design, her love of Hip-hop (especially Mandarin and Cantonese hip-hop) and being a creator.
Her bio:
Design: Grace Chen is a Product Designer based in the San Francisco Bay Area. She is also a bilingual graphic design freelancer who has collaborated with musicians and creatives in the United States and abroad. Grace has provided design support for independent musicians and companies such as Baidu, Number Four Music, and LoomUp.She is also now working at a cybersecurity startup as a UX designer.
Hip-hop: Grace has been a Hip-hop fanatic listening and rooting for Mandarin and Cantonese Hiphop for 10 years.
Make sure to check out her work! Follow her on Instagram and contact her if you need any design work done for your projects!
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{We want our kids to watch tv and be like, that Asian actor in there is very normal. It's normalize, it's not like "omg dad, there's an Asian guy!"} - Jack
In part 2 of my conversation with Jack and Gavin of DIU Podcast, we talked about a topic that we talk often about amongst ourselves which is Asian representation in the media.
We talked about how Asian representation in the media was like, how Asian representation in media is right now, and what we hope Asian representation in media would be like in the future.
We also talked about who is able to tell Asian specific stories and if it even matters who tells it as long as they are good. To end the episode, we recommended some good Asian representation media to check out and also talked about a famous Diaspora Asian.
Listen and find out who we talked about.
If you want to follow DIU Podcast, find them at diupod.com.
Follow Jack on Instagram, @jackhsieh123 https://www.instagram.com/jackhsieh123
Follow Gavin on Instagram, @auyeungavin https://www.instagram.com/auyeungavin/
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"There are going to be those reminders that you are not one of them. So you can front as much as you want, no one is going to look at you if you are walking down the street. But, don't be fooled, as diaspora kids it's hard to say we belong there as well (Asia)." - Gavin
It's finally here! Season 1 EP 1 of WHAT KIND OF ASIAN ARE YOU? PODCAST!!!!!!!
In the very first official episode of season 1, I got my good buddies Jack and Gavin from DIU Podcast to join me to have a talk about:
Being Asian and do we feel Asian enough as we didn't grow up in the East.
Being Diaspora Asian living in the west.
What would it really be like if we diaspora kids actually go back to our homelands for good?
This is just part 1 of our conversation as part 2 will come out soon and we talked about Asian representation. You don't want to miss that！
You can follow DIU PODCAST at diupod.com.
You can follow Jack on Instagram at @jackhsieh123
You can follow Gavin on Instagram at @auyeunggavin
You can follow Kyle on Instagram at @kyle.lkhhk
Thank you for listening! Please give me some feedback so I can make this podcast better in the upcoming episodes!
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THE ORIGIN STORY A more in depth look into the origin story of your host Kyle. Season 1 EP 1 PREMIERE THIS THURSDAY OCTOBER 9 @ 8PM!!!! FOLLOW KYLE ON IG @kyle.lkhhk 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/
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It's been a while. I promised more pre-official episodes and here is one for y'all. In this one, I update you on what's been happening in my life and also announcing that I have a new podcast in addition to What Kind of Asian Are You? Podcast that I'll be doing with my good friend, Jack, fellow podcaster of DIU Podcast, that he does with his podcast partner, Gavin. The new podcast is going to be entirely in Cantonese, Jack and I's mother tongue. We will talk about the Cantonese language, Cantonese culture, and our experience living in the West as Diaspora Asians. So if you are interested, please check it out on diupod.com when it comes out. It will come out by the time this episode is released.
So here I present you a clip from the first Cantonese podcast episode I recorded with Jack. Enjoy!
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Listen in to my first official recording of a podcast episode. A short one going over who I am, what the podcast is going to be about and also what's with the name, What Kind of Asian Are You?.
Find the podcast by searching the podcast, What Kind of Asian Are You? on all streaming platform and on Youtube!
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Each week, we have conversations with your favourite Asian from the diaspora (or ones you need to know about!) that will inspire and motivate you to be your best self.
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To finish Asian American Native Hawaiian & Pacific Islander Month/Asian Heritage Month strong, we talked with Anika Chabra & Jennifer Siripong Mandel of Root & Seed.
Root & Seed is a podcast that explores culture and family heritage. Hosted by Anika Chabra, host Kyle appeared on an episode talking about his story being Asian diaspora and using the podcast to document Asian diaspora stories. That was how we became aware of Root & Seed and all they do. Check out the episode!
In addition to the podcast, Root & Seed also produces a conversation tool (digital and physical) to make capturing family stories easier. The overall mission of Root & Seed is to bring together fellow tradition-seekers to claim, honor, document and celebrate their culture and let it live on in their words, thoughts, actions and experiences for generations to come. They have a great mission and this is why we needed to have a conversation with the founders, Anika and Jennifer about it.
Our conversation was about who they are, their Asian diaspora upbringing, how they met and started Root & Seed, their podcast, their conversation tool, and the reasons why they are doing what they are doing now.
If you enjoyed our conversation, please go follow them on social media, support them and their conversation tool (get yourself one), listen to their podcast and introduce them to friends and family.
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Happy Asian Heritage Month & Mental Health Awareness Month!
Today's conversation is with Sheena Yap Chan. It was an honour to have a conversation with such an amazing and inspiring individual that does so much for the community she is part of helping Asian women build self-confidence and helping with Asian representation in media.
In our conversation, we touched on topics like her background, her experience with working corporate as an Asian woman, self-confidence, how to build it, how to get better, Asian representation in media and her book!
Sheena's Profile:
Sheena Yap Chan is a Keynote Speaker, consultant, podcaster and author on building self-confidence. She is also the founder and host of the award-winning podcast called The Tao of Self-Confidence where she interviews Asian women about their inner journey to self-confidence.
Sheena is also the bestselling author of 2 books called Asian Women Who BossUp and International Women of Color Who BossUp. She will also release her upcoming book with Wiley called The Tao of Self-Confidence. Pre-order her upcoming book now on Amazon!
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Happy Asian Heritage Month & Mental Health Awareness Month!
Today's episode is with Harry Au (he/him), licensed therapist and registered social worker, 1.5 gen Hong Hong Han Chinese Canadian in Toronto, Canada.
Harry is all about helping Asians go from feeling trapped to becoming self-liberated.
Our conversation is all about Asian mental health. We touch on the common mental health issues Asians in the diaspora face, working on our Asian mental health, therapy, and much more!
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On today's episode, we have TJ Wey, Ze is an entrepreneur and host of a podcast, called "The Asian Detox" Podcast. Our conversation will cover what TJ does and TJ's podcast. Our conversation touches on topics of being and growing up Asian American, immigrant mindset mentality, hustle culture, and re-evaluating your mindset on what is the right way to live and start being and living your most authentic self.
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Conversation with Paji & Iasmin, super popular Tik Tokers and podcasters.
Paji & Iasmin are Third Culture Kids from Macau now based in the US. They are Cantonese-English bilinguals with Paji being Sri Lankan+Filipino and Isamin being Brazillian+Filipino (not what you expected right?). They got a super entertaining podcast, "Outcasts the Podcast" that documents their hilarious journey as 2 half-Filipinos in America all while speaking some Cantonese. In addition to that, they are also on Tik Tok with funny videos and memes showcasing Cantonese culture and the language while teaching you important Cantonese phrases without you realizing it.
In our conversation, we went into their background, growing up in Macau as outcasts as they aren't Han Chinese (the majority population of Macau), their third culture identity, being outcasts in America, their relationship with Cantonese (language and culture) and their content-creating journey creating content about their experience being third culture kids and sharing Cantonese culture and language through funny tik toks and memes.
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Guest Bio: Hon Hoang is a Vietnamese-American photographer and filmmaker currently based in Los Angeles, California. He was born in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, but grew up in Los Angeles. He began studying Photography shortly after graduating from UCLA where he studied Psychology. He sees Photography as a medium that answers questions, satisfies curiosity, and showcases the things that are often left unseen.
Hon believes that most of us feel a level of existential uncertainty, wondering who we’ll be because of who we were. His works explore this sensation and eventually come to hopeful conclusions, acting as a sliver of light that guides us out of the darkness.
Episode: In our conversation, we talked about growing up in Roland Heights, living/abroad in South Korea, transitioning and figuring out what one truly wants to do, filmmaking and creativity.
Hon got a lot of thoughts and opinions on creativity, passion, filmmaking and art that are definitely worth considering and thinking about.
Check out the episode now!
Find Hon and his work!
Breakdown will be screening sometime in April at the Beverly Hills Film Festival.
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Season 5 is now here! Thank you for all of your patience. We have taken a long but well-needed break, but we are back and looking forward to giving you all the great conversations about being Asians with the cool Asians that you yourself would want to have conversations with as well.
To start season 5 with a bang, we had a conversation with Karon Liu, a food reporter for the Toronto Star who is based in the Greater Toronto Area. He is a super-talented writer and reporter telling stories about food and the people/restaurants that are behind the food you love.
In our conversation, we covered: -Greater Toronto Area Chinese community history since the 1980s -His experience growing up in the Greater Toronto Area in the 90s and his thoughts on identity/third culture-ness -His career in food reporting and also his thoughts on food media -His favourite foods and his relationship with food -His journey on reconnecting with his Cantonese heritage through cooking and learning Cantonese and Chinese.
Karon Liu Biography: Karon is a Hong Kong Chinese Canadian that immigrated with his family to the Greater Toronto Area when he was 1 in the last 1980s. He is now a reporter for the Toronto Star mainly on topics related to food, restaurants, culture, and how all those intertwine. Outside of his work in media, he is also on his journey to getting back in touch with his heritage/culture specifically Cantonese through learning Chinese and learning/cooking more Cantonese recipes.
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*RE-RELEASE EPISODE ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED BACK ON DECEMBER 28 2020*
Note:
1. It's not a new episode! It's a re-release of one of our favourite conversations that we have had on this podcast. We hope that new listeners of ours would give it a listen if they haven't already. 2. If you are already a fan of Randy and his family (who isn't?) and want to learn about Randy and how he started Made With Lau, this would be a good episode to listen to as this was recorded back when they were still only at about 10000+subscribers till now where they are over 1 million strong! 3. By the way, season 5 of the podcast coming your way APRIL 2, 2023!!!!
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Today's episode features Aydin Quach(he/they). MA student in History @UBC and Ph.D. in American Studies and Ethnicity @USC
We talked about:
1. What does being "CHINESE" mean in the Diaspora? 2. Aydin's upbringing as a Chinese Canadian growing up/living in Vancouver, Canada 3. Harmonizing Chinese/Asian identity with Queerness 4. Asian Joy and our right as immigrants/descendants of immigrants to have that without guilt
His Bio
I was raised in what is now known as Vancouver on the traditional, ancestral, and stolen territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm, səlilwətaɬ, and Skwxwú7mesh First Nations. I am an uninvited settler on their land. I come from a family of immigrants to Canada who themselves were immigrants to Southeast Asia, having lived in Southeast Asia for generations. My mother’s family is part of the Stateless Chinese population in Brunei Darussalam and my father is Chinese-Vietnamese from Vietnam. Drawing from my own identity as part of the Sinophone diaspora, I became interested in understanding how those who have complex migration histories understand their own identity. This is how I first got into the discipline of History and considered it as a prism through which I could develop and magnify my research questions. Questions around what is “Chinese” across the Sinophone diaspora are of particular interest to me. This extends of course as well to other intersections of my identity as well such as my position as a Queer Asian individual in academia.
Research Areas
- Sex, Gender, the Body, and Sexuality - Modern East and Southeast Asian History - Migration Studies -Queer Theory - Sensory Studies - Musicology - Music History - Cultural Studies My research primarily pertains to the research of culture, sex, gender, and sexuality both in a historical lens as well as a contemporary sense. I am interested in how culture develops and how culture shapes our perceptions of self. I bounce back and forth in my research between the historical past and the present as part of an ongoing effort to research how identity and culture are intertwined. Below you will find a briefing about my current projects.
CURRENT PROJECTS
Hardening Men: Masculinity, Nationalism, and Leadership in Post Colonial Southeast Asia (Singapore, Malaysia)
I am interested in how manhood and masculinity are constructed through military service. Moreover, how is masculinity co-opted into being an issue of national security for newly created countries in Southeast Asia?
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~ENDING 2022 WITH A BONUS EPISODE FEATURING GABRIEL LEE OF HUGMATCH~
This episode features Gabriel Lee (Korean American), head of Public Relations of HugMatch, a company that focuses on developing interactive toys for the visually impaired. Gabriel was recommended by a past guest of the show, XinYi as she had Gabriel on her podcast recently and thought that Gabriel would be a perfect fit for the show. After our recording, we couldn't agree more!
In our conversation, we explored Gabriel's family journey to the west, how the family didn't intend to actually move to the West permanently at first, to him taking a journey through different occupations and studies (working at the UN, being in the military, studying his master, teaching English in Korea) that led him to where he is now, a man with a strong distant voice, mission and purpose that he commit to in the company that he is a part of with HugMatch. We definitely talked about HugMatch, the inspiration behind it, what it is, the mission and the uniqueness of it right now as it is a company that is AAPI driven. It is a great and thoughtful conversation that you do not want to miss out on at all!
Check out HugMatch! WEBSITE INSTAGRAM https://hugmatch.net/index.html https://www.instagram.com/hugmatch/?hl=en
Thank you to all the listeners and supporters of the podcast. We wouldn't be able to have this podcast running at the end of 2022 and continuing in 2023 without all of your support. This is the last episode of 2022 and we will be looking to come back in 2023 (February). In the meantime, check out this episode and past episodes you might have missed. Don't forget to stay subscribed to us on all digital platforms as well following us on Instagram for all the most up-to-date news about the podcast and when we will be coming back for the new season.
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We are joined by Katherine Ally Zaslavsky(she/they): 1. Indo-Caribbean 2. PhD candidate in Sociology. 3. a host, writer, and researcher of social truths and real representation.
In addition to that, she is a content producer/podcaster for #HATEISAVIRUS podcast series, Real Talk: Unfiltered where she co-hosts with a past guest of the podcast, Raymond Luu of Reel Asian Podcast.
In our conversation, we dived into Katherine's background, her experience with having a mom that is a Diaspora Asian herself, representation, media, and her work with #HATEISAVIRUS. Most importantly, we talked about her podcast with #HATEISAVIRUS, Real Talk: Unfiltered, an awesome podcast that you would love if you love honest stories from those in the AAPI community. It's an awesome show that you should all check out!
More about #HATEISAVIRUS: Hate Is A Virus is a nonprofit community of mobilizers and amplifiers to dismantle racism and hate.
More about Real Talk: Unfiltered:
Welcome to Real Talk: Unfiltered, where we dive deep into the experiences of trusted leaders in our community. Hosted by Katherine Ally Zaslavsky and Raymond Luu, our show gets real about issues facing Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders, to add context to tough topics and to make the political -- personal. Unlike most media, we don't rely on sound bites - we use our platform to take space and make space for the unfiltered truth of AAPI existence. Created by Katherine Ally Zaslavsky Real Talk: Unfiltered is a production of Hate Is A Virus & Fung Jen Productions
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Conversation with Shanze of Raw Thoughts Podcast, your least favourite podcast. A podcast
Listen in to learn more about Shanze, a Canadian-born Pakistani Muslim GenZ with many creative interests that had chosen podcasting as her medium/platform of choice currently to express her most raw and honest thoughts. We covered her feelings about being Asian, her identity as a Muslim living in Canada, her podcasting journey and more!
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Julia Zou: Chinese American designer/fashion model living in NYC
Our conversation is about Julia's path as a designer/fashion model. The conversation went into the ups and downs of being in the modelling industry, her experience working as a model, her views on beauty and beauty standards for Asian Americans, her family's reaction to her career choice, and how to pose for photos.
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Today's episodes with the super creative and interesting XinYi Tan from the "Don't Be Strangers" Podcast. Kyle, our host was on an episode of "Don't Be Strangers" check that out as well! Episode
We talked about finding your passions, creativity, being creative and loving art but not making it a career intentionally and the journey she took to become a creative chimera nomad.
More about XinYi Tan:
I was born in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia and moved with my family to Dallas, Texas at age 7. My first couple of years in school were a huge struggle. English was not my first language and entering 2nd grade after skipping almost a year of school due to the move made making friends quite difficult. But even after learning English,
I never felt quite at home... anywhere.
Culturally, I wasn’t fully American, but when my family and I visited Malaysia, I was painfully aware that I didn’t quite belong there either.
When it came to my passions, I could never make up my mind on a specific creative outlet or medium to hone — not because of indecisiveness (ok, maybe a little bit), but because I find joy in learning, remixing, and over-complicating mixed-media projects. But before I found pride in calling myself a creative chimera, I was hopelessly lost in how to identify my art and therefore myself.
Being aromantic meant that I couldn’t relate to 99% of the stories represented in pop culture.
In short, I thought I was an alien. With every friend that I’ve found (who listened to me wholeheartedly and confided in me sincerely), I began to feel less and less alien and more and more at home on Earth. I began to feel like I belonged.
"Don't Be Strangers is a community + podcast that focuses on fighting social isolation via stories of everyday people! If you believe in the power of making deeper connections, you can plug in by joining our Discord Community, Pen Pals Club, or applying to co-host a future episode!"
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Conversation with Betty Xie focused on the following:
-her Asian Canadian immigrant experience -her journey to a creative career (from fundraising for film festivals, filmmaking/producing, podcasting, and career coaching for creatives) -being a career coach for creatives -creativity and making a career out of being a creative -filmmaking and podcasting
Betty is a Filmmaker, Fundraising Consultant, and Career Coach for Creatives.
listen to my podcast Everyday Talent Podcast: your go-to-podcast for creatives who are looking for new ways of thinking about their career, life, and practice.
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Today's conversation is about hating one's Asian Diaspora identity (due to childhood trauma and family circumstances) while growing up in America to embracing and reconnecting with one's culture through learning one's mother tongue and moving back to the motherland. This is the story of our guest, Maim Kim.
Maim Kim is a copyeditor and podcaster (Maim Time Podcast - A show about overcoming the Asian diaspora identity struggle to become the best versions of ourselves!)
This conversation is for all the diaspora kids going through their own journey to find themselves or those that have already gone through the journey. Just remember, that you are not alone and that you don't have to answer to anyone but yourself in terms of your identity. Just be the best versions of yourself!
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An Indian-American ex-petroleum engineer now mix- engineer/business owner pursuing his passion in music. This is our guest, Ravi Ray.
Join in on our conversation about pursuing one's passion with a plan, how he has been doing it so that his parents are on board with his vision (as much as they could), and the ups and downs of being a business owner in the creative industry.
Find Ravi and inquire about his services if you ever need assistance in your music related projects!
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Today's conversation features Kristy Yee & Angie Yu, co-hosts of the award-winning podcast called "Shit We Don't Tell Mom".
The podcast, "Shit We Don't Tell Mom" is where two Millenials (Kristy and Angie) share vulnerable stories about how to improve one's well-being & relationship with oneself.
In our conversation, we learn more about Kristy and Angie and their podcast along with their mental health journey and topics regarding therapy and feelings. A good one to check out if you love Asians talking about feelings.
Don't forget to head over to "Shit We Don't Tell Mom" Podcast after listening to this episode and to support Kristy & Angie and their podcast as they are doing awesome work with their podcast.
Last, make sure to follow us on Instagram, give a rating/review on Spotify and Apple Podcast, and write to us in our DM to share what you thought about our episode/what you want us to cover in future episodes. Thank you for continuing to support this podcast and if you like, buy us a coffee, link is down below. Again thank you for tuning in. Come back next week for another episode, another conversation about being Asian. __________________________________________________________ Find "Shit We Don't Tell Mom"
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Aya Lanzoni is the owner of Tinydragon Bytes, a web design and SEO agency that works with small to medium size businesses to provide a unique digital and strategic experience to move your brand forward. She also co-founded No Cilantro Please Magazine, a quarterly digital magazine that celebrates small business and the diversity of entrepreneurship through food and lifestyle discoveries. This magazine is meant to be a digital hub and resources for like-minded individuals, and will leave you wanting and craving more.
About our Conversation:
Conversation on muti-racial/multi-cultural upbringing in a predominately white area, microaggressions faced being mixed race, experience being an entrepreneur and publishing a magazine that celebrates small businesses.
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In support of AAPI heritage month and mental health awareness month, we are happy to bring you a conversation about Asian mental health and therapy.
Our guest for today’s episode is Vera Cheng.
Things covered on today’s episode:
Vera’s background
Asian mental health
Trauma and therapy
Blossom mental health fund
Vera’s bio:
Vera Cheng is a registered social worker, psychotherapist, seasoned speaker, and the founder of Talk Therapy with Vera. With over 15 years of devoted work in mental health and racialized communities, She is a leading expert in mental health and anti-Asian racism, featured in renowned media outlets such as CBC NEWS, CP24 and CTV NEWS. In addition, she partnered with the Canadian Mental Health Association and featured in a provincial mental health campaign.
As a Chinese-Canadian immigrant, she has honed her practice beyond therapy sessions into community engagement, advocacy and fighting against Asian hate. She is passionate about mental health awareness, primarily through anxiety, which she has struggled with. Sharing her journey helps reduce mental health stigma in the hopes of helping others overcome their struggles, too.
Talk Therapy with Vera is deeply rooted in the "Healing Lens," with the anti-oppressive framework addressing anti-Asian racism through attachment, client-centred, self-compassionate and trauma-informed approaches. She engages with my clients collaboratively and empathically to improve their self-awareness and make positive, goal-directed life changes.
Happy AAPI Heritage Month! Make sure to follow Vera and also stay tuned into our podcast this month for more conversations with awesome AAPI talking about topics that we in the diaspora care about.
Vera Cheng, BSW, MSW, RSW (she/her)
Registered Social Worker, Psychotherapist
Your Toronto Asian Mental Health Advocate & Public Speaker
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Today we have Amanda Jeysing. She is a writer, food blogger, model, dancer, creative and Malaysian-Indian third culture kid.
The conversation is about Amanda's Malaysian-Indian third culture kid upbringing (born and raised in Malaysia), diaspora feelings and identity, and her passion for writing, food, dancing and creative expression. We also touched on food media, decolonization, supporting local eats and amplifying underrepresented voices through storytelling.
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Another Podcast Spotlight episode featuring "But Where Are You Really From?" Podcast
About the podcast:
"But Where Are You Really From?" Podcast:
Hosts and life-long best friends Angela Lin and Jesse Lin explore their identities as Asian-Americans through the lens of their first-generation upbringings and how those influences have shaped how they see the world and their place in it.
Each episode explores a different topic of identity or common struggle. Many episodes feature special guests from both the Asian and broader POC communities bringing their unique perspectives, showing us that there's so much more that connects us than divides us.
This is a conversation about the podcast, "But Where Are You Really From?" Podcast, their hosts, Angela and Jesse Lin, the origin story of the podcast, being Asian Americans and everything you would expect Asian American Diaspora-themed podcasters to talk about when they all get on a call to talk shop about the podcast game. It's a fun one!
Episodes mentioned in the conversation: Unpacking Asia Diaspora (ft. Cherrie from With Chinese Characteristics) Terrible Twos (Two-year anniversary episode) If There's No Fortune Cookie, Is it Really Chinese? (ft. Angela's Dad)
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This episode features the story of Johna Baylon (she/her), a journalist, writer, and editor based in Vancouver, BC, Canada. Born in the Philippines, Johna grew up in Hong Kong, where she also spent the earlier part of her professional life writing about food and design. In 2019, she moved to Vancouver, B.C., where she has since been based.
This is a conversation about third culture-ness, immigration experience first as a child in the east and then the immigration experience as an adult in the west. It is also a conversation about Johna's experience in media, specifically in journalism and the topics that she writes about.
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Steven Ngo is a lawyer, social entrepreneur, podcaster and new ASIAN DAD (much like our host, Kyle). So the two got on a call and had a great conversation about being new fathers, the journey from pregnancy, to delivery, to now raising their own daughters with their wife and family's support and also fatherhood as an Asian diaspora. The two also shared tips and advice for those that are expecting to be or planning to be an Asian dad in the diaspora.
Steven's podcast is called, "2 Dads 1 Car": By dads, for dads. We'll be exploring everything from unspoken truths, parenting myths and how to thrive in your career (while balancing family and life).
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In today's episode, we talked to three Asian Canadians who will be performing a series of shows in the Greater Toronto Area revolving around the Asian experience during Asian Heritage Month (MAY). We talked about who they are, what they do, what is the showcase about, what we can expect from them in the shows, their healing process and being Asian. If you are in the Greater Toronto Area, definitely check them out at their shows. It will be a fun one, for sure!
InnerGenerational: Trauma & Healing is a series of live shows based on the ancestral impact of Asian experiences. Performances from Anto Chan, Siddartha, and Shqdel.
Again, thank you for listening and hope you continue to support us by listening, sharing and following us on social media. If you got some change to spare, buy us a coffee as well!
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Podcast Spotlight is an episode that we will do where we will be talking to another podcaster that is Asian and is doing a podcast that is AAPI specific /Asian themes or Asia diaspora specific. We hope by doing this we are able to build relationships with other Asian podcasters and help each other build/grow in the podcast space that needs more Asian voices.
Today, we are talking to Raymond Luu of Reel Asian Podcast. We talked about his background, the reason that he got into podcasting and the Reel Asian Podcast of course. If you enjoyed our conversation, please make sure you check out Reel Asian Podcast as they just started their season 4.
ABOUT REEL ASIAN PODCAST:
A show focused on Asian and Asian-American-related films where each episode presents discussions from a variety of angles, both in the micro & macro-views of Asian American culture and pop culture. We analyze and unpack the what, how, and why these films are worth talking about.
Hosted by Raymond, Alan, Renee, Pragya and Baldwin.
Again, thank you for supporting this podcast by listening and following us. If you like to support the podcast more, we also set up a Buy Me a Coffee page where you can donate however much money for us to get coffees. No pressure to do so if you are not able to contribute. We greatly appreciate already that you listen to the podcast.
Now enough of verbal diarrhea and to the episode! Thanks for listening! Again, we are back! Conversations about being Asian are back weekly!
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We are back! After being MIA for close to two months, the podcast is back and ready for more conversations about being Asian. We hope you are ready for that as well. Anyways, this is just a short episode going over what had happened since the last episode upload and a clip from a future episode in season 4.
If you want a TLDR of this episode, go to our Instagram post to get caught up on the podcast!
https://www.instagram.com/p/Cc3m-nNp5-k/
Again, season 4 May 5th! Stay tuned!
Thank you for your support and we look forward to having you back to listen to us in the upcoming season.
Asian Creative Festival - May 13&14 2022 Check out the link to register! https://www.asiancreativefestival.com/
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This is the season finale for season 3. Thank you for joining us on this great journey and we hope that you have gained something from it. We will be taking a small break from uploading and will be back in the spring. So please don't forget about us and please come back to us when we are back in a few months.
Also, please give us a 5 ⭐ rating on Spotify, Apple Podcast, and wherever you can give us a rating! An Apple Podcast Review is greatly appreciated as well. Don't forget to share this with friends and family and now to our episode today with our past guest (Episode 28), a podcaster from Awkward Turtle at Work, Emery Fung!
Emery is a Hong Kong-born, native English and Cantonese speaker who has lived in the UK for over 10 years. His joy so far has been in working with people. His skills are in building a community, foresting relationships, business development, research and pitching. Outside of his professional life (recruiter), he is a LGBT advocate, Social Media Junkie and Sports fanatic. He can be found playing football, hockey or wake-surfing across Hong Kong!
In the previous episode, Emery and I talked about his experience studying at a boarding school in the UK which is a big part of who he is. However, we did not cover another important part of who he is and his experience. So in this episode, we will be talking about Emery's transition story (from female to male), being trans in Asia, his thoughts on the trans/LGBTQ+issues in Asia and much more. We also did a life update with Emery as so much has happened for him in all areas since we recorded our first episode.
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Please give us a 5 ⭐ rating on Spotify, Apple Podcast, and wherever you can give us a rating! An Apple Podcast Review is greatly appreciated as well. Don't forget to share this with friends and family and now to our episode today with the awesome artist, photographer, musician, content creator, and cute Asian, Ben Aqua (they/them).
We talked previously on Never Jaded Podcast about his creative journey/process. However, after that conversation, Ben brought up the fact that we didn't talk about their Asian identity and asked them about it despite the fact that Never Jaded is all about giving flowers to Asian creators.
So that's why in today's episode the conversation is about being Asian, being queer and how all that interconnects which influence their art/content. We also touched on our feelings/thoughts about the Anti-Asian Hate that has been going on and much more that you should be tuning into.
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Thank you for clicking this episode. If you like this podcast and would like to help it grow, consider following the podcast on Instagram, sharing it on your social media, leaving a 5-star rating on BOTH Spotify and Apple Podcast, and leaving a review on Apple Podcast. And now onto this week's guest.
In this week's episode, we have Alisha Gupta, a South Asian American student at UT Austin. Alisha is a speaker, entrepreneur, social activist, and student all at the same time! She focuses on youth empowerment and South Asian activism using social media as her platform to deliver her message and provide a positive impact to the communities that she cares for.
We talked about her identity (the duality of it being Indian, South Asian, Desi but still American), all the stuff that she does while being a student, business/entrepreneurship, social activism and much more. Get inspired by Alisha and her story!
Alisha's Bio:
A sophomore at UT Austin, double majoring in Business Honors and Marketing, minoring in Business Analytics, and with a Certificate in Entrepreneurship and Innovation. She started a job at Sorenson Impact Investing Firm in which she works as an analyst running due diligence on impact companies, mostly in Latin America. The mission is to delegate funds and social capital to ventures that have a direct impact on communities that are underrepresented and underfunded. She now works for Capital Factory as a Ventures Fellow.
She is also currently employed with an organization called Humanity Rising which she heads Marketing and Outreach. Within the organization, she initiated a podcast series, What Cause Inspires You that features student service stories from around the globe, social entrepreneurship professionals, and delegate scholarships. They recently won a 30K national Innovation Grant! She was interviewed by NBC! (https://www.nbcchicago.com/top-videos-home/project-innovation-funding-awarded-to-humanity-rising/2561176/). The purpose of the podcast is to allow students a voice for their social justice movements.
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