Best New Left Feminist Radio Podcasts (2024)

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Fusion Festival 2024 - Saeleen Bouvar@Cloud Cuckoo 1:19:32

7d ago1:19:32

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This year´s Fusion Festival left me with a beautiful memory of a crowd who filled the whole Cloud Cuckoo up to the roof! Here you have an excerpt of the set I played. I hope it brings back good memories to you as well!By Saeleen Bouvar

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Queer House Odyssey Part 3 @Voices4Berlin 1:18:38

2M ago1:18:38

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Very thrilled to share the last part of my House Odyssey Trilogy showcasing the past, the present and the future of House Music. This set, played for the Voices4Berlin for the Trans Day of Visibility 2024 starts off with a 90s house banger enriched and thickened with latin rhythms, honouring the latina trans queens of the 90s and today, finishing w…

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Coentenservice @Salon Queertronique 1:21:30

4M ago1:21:30

1:21:30

At the last TRANSTRONICA Salon Queertronique, I wanted to combine oriental rhythms and sounds and merge them together with electronic beats. In this set, you can hear the result out of this beautiful fusion of belly dance beats, egyptian Mahraganat, as well as turkish Sezen Aksu mixed together with vogue beats into a world trip through sound.…

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TRANSTRONICA 2023: House Odyssey Part 2 1:23:46

8M ago1:23:46

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After a long time, I decided to continue to post my sets again. This one is a very special one, because it is partly the set I played at the TRANSTRONICA festival 2023, although without the sickening vocals of Hausvrau. It is a trip through the 90s, a wild ride through House, Breakbeat and 90s Rave.By Saeleen Bouvar

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Queer House Odyssey Part 1@PARKS 1:17:20

2y ago1:17:20

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So I decided to rework the second part of my set and to offer you a trilogy of House with three of my performances in 2022. Initially, this was the set, I played for the Queer Bcademy @PARKS Hamburg. In this first part, the focus is on early House music, mainly from the late 80s. This era has a very special feel to it, it is the time, electronic da…

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Oriental Voguing Inferno @Vogelball 2022 1:23:44

2y ago1:23:44

1:23:44

This is my set from the Vogelball 2022! It was my very first time playing there and my very first time, the crowd was going absolutely crazy from the first second of it! Be prepared to enjoy a set through fierce voguing beats, house excellence, electronic abstraction and oriental rhythms all woven into a melodic tale. Hyacinth ara photo by Ulrich B…

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TRANSTRONICA Day 3: Celeste @Kampnagel 1:12:51

2y ago1:12:51

1:12:51

The TRANSTRONICA Festival was the first ever electronic music festival with an all trans* lineup. As the curator and founder, I set myself on the last evening, called "Celeste". It is about time to summarise my set filled with what I would call is 100% Saeleen Bouvar: sickening beats, oriental influences, Acid sounds and melodies to die for. It is …

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Femme Future Set @ Feminist Futures Salon 1:19:32

2+ y ago1:19:32

1:19:32

Let´s celebrate the end of 2021 with a Hi NRG mix I played back @PARKS for the Feminist Futures Salon. It is an hommage to the old gay club sound which was shaped by the queer icons Sylvester James and Patrick Cowley. Hi NRG will always be connected with the tragedy of the Aids pandemic, which took so many queer lives too soon. This mix highlights …

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Quintessential Queerpool @Südpol 1:11:08

2+ y ago1:11:08

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After such a long time, I was asked to play a techno set for the Queerpool party. Finally, the time had arrived for me to dig out iconic tracks from artists such as Mira Calix, Jasmine Infiniti, SOPHIE and Portishead to deliver a mix filled with female passion for electronic music. Please enjoy it!peach artwork from @grumpyandbroke…

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The Forbidden Bodies Acid Mix @PARKS 1:23:28

3y ago1:23:28

1:23:28

For the three days event "There is no satisfaction" @PARKS, Hamburg, I was asked to play a 1 hour set. Unfortunately, I was interrupted by the police who asked us to stop the music now. The audience loved the set so much, that I promised to mix it at home with all of its glory. So, here you have the whole set as it was planned plus another 20 minut…

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Oriental Acid Lovers @ CMD-Queer 1:23:49

3y ago1:23:49

1:23:49

Here you have my performance at the alternative pride event in Hamburg if there hadn´t be any interruptions. It is a wild ride on House and Techno tracks spiced up with Acid Gems and Oriental Belly Dance Beats. Oozing Queerness in all of its glory, wishing you a safe and happy pride!By Saeleen Bouvar

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Extended Possycast#44 1:21:23

3y ago1:21:23

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For my birthday month, where I will accomplish my 44th year on earth, I was asked to take over the POSSYCAST#44. Now, isn´t that a wonderful occasion to spread some pure love and desire in those hot steamy nights? This version is an all exclusive to my Queertronica Podcast with a little 20 minutes extra material all filled with fabulousness!Have fu…

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Matthew Salesses Interviewed by May Ngo 50:18

3y ago50:18

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We have a special interview with author Matthew Salesses, conducted by writer and anthropologist May Ngo back in February. Together, they dissect Matthew’s book Craft in the Real World, and have deep conversations about making writing workshops more equally accessible and how to think about one’s audience. They question the concept of agency, and h…

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Crying in H Mart ft. Michelle Zauner & Hrishikesh Hirway 1:00:37

3y ago1:00:37

1:00:37

AAWW and indie bookstore Books Are Magic partned together to celebrate musician Michelle Zauner’s debut memoir, Crying In H Mart. Best known for her work as the musician Japanese Breakfast, Zauner’s memoir is an astonishing debut: a rich, intimate, and lyrical story about finding yourself, and the enduring power of food and family. Zauner is joined…

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Latino Acid May Strut @ Queer Bcademy 2021 1:13:32

3y ago1:13:32

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Here you have my latest set, which I played at the Queer Bcademy´21. It is a tribute to the Latina Queens of House Music, especially Liz Torres whose tracks have always been dear to my heart. The set starts with early house tracks from the 80s, ends in the 90s and closes with the first Latina woman who became an international pop star and LGBTQ ico…

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How Much of These Hills is Gold ft. C Pam Zhang, Karen Chee 1:02:46

3+ y ago1:02:46

1:02:46

AAWW celebrates the paperback launch of C Pam Zhang’s debut novel How Much of These Hills is Gold, which was longlisted for The Booker Prize, among other accolades. Since its publication last spring, this haunting, spare, and achingly beautiful novel has been widely praised for turning its unflinching gaze on the people and legends of the American …

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Anti-Asian Violence and Black-Asian Solidarity Today 1:58:58

3y ago1:58:58

1:58:58

We're featuring audio from our recent event Anti-Asian Violence and Black-Asian Solidarity Today presented by Tamara K. Nopper. This lecture examines the merging of fighting “anti-Asian violence” with the promotion of “Black-Asian solidarity” in the context of COVID-19, and considers the work these narratives are doing and if they challenge or prom…

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#WeToo: Journal of Asian American Studies 47:06

3+ y ago47:06

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In time for the Association of Asian American Studies Conference that kicks off this week, we’re reposting an episode from the newly launched Journal of Asian American Studies podcast! We discuss a unique special issue of The Journal of Asian American Studies: #WeToo, a reader of Art, Poetry, Fiction, and Memoir, that seeks to answer the question, …

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Femmetronica Mix @ [sic]nal Radio 1:17:50

3+ y ago1:17:50

1:17:50

This mix is a remake of the set I made for @sicnalradio. Because of the very bad sound quality, I decided to re-mix it at my little home studio. I normally wanted to wait a bit, but the urgent case of a POC trans woman in need forces me to publish it now. Due to the lockdown restrictions she is experiencing a terrible foreclosure, which has led her…

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The City of Good Death ft. Priyanka Champaneri and Marjan Kamali 59:32

3+ y ago59:32

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We're celebrating Priyanka Champaneri’s debut novel, The City of Good Death. Priyanka will be in conversation with special guest Marjan Kamali, author of The Stationery Shop. Winner of the Restless Books Prize for New Immigrant Writing, The City of Good Death is an immersive family saga exploring death, rebirth, and redemption set in India’s holy c…

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Northern Light ft. Kazim Ali and Billy-Ray Belcourt 1:02:11

3+ y ago1:02:11

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Acclaimed poet, novelist, and essayist Kazim Ali joins the Asian American Writers’ Workshop and Milkweed Editions to launch his new memoir, Northern Light: Power, Land, and the Memory of Water. Northern Light, a sensitive and elegantly structured exploration of land and power, is told through Ali’s recollections of his childhood in Manitoba, and th…

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My Year Abroad ft. Chang-rae Lee and Bryan Washington 1:05:55

3+ y ago1:05:55

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Join the Asian American Writers’ Workshop as we celebrate award-winning writer Chang-rae Lee’s electrifying new novel, My Year Abroad. A surprising, tender, and humorous work, My Year Abroad is a story unique to Chang-rae Lee’s immense talents as a writer, and explores the division between East and West, capitalism, mental health, mentorship, and m…

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Brown Baby ft. Nikesh Shukla & Mira Jacob 59:18

3+ y ago59:18

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AAWW is delighted to celebrate the launch of writer Nikesh Shukla’s new memoir, Brown Baby: A Memoir of Race, Family, and Home. An intimate look at love, grief, and fatherhood, Shukla’s memoir “bears witness to our turbulent times” (Bernardine Evaristo) with humor, honesty, and hope. Shukla is joined in conversation by Mira Jacob, author of Good Ta…

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Colonize This! Young Women of Color on Today's Feminism 1:47:22

3+ y ago1:47:22

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In the anthology Colonize This! Young Women of Color on Today's Feminism!, Daisy Hernandez and Bushra Rehman have collected a bold group of emerging writers whose prescient and intimate writing paints an expansive portrait of the experience of being women and femmes of color. The first edition of the anthology became an instant classic in 2002, and…

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Radical Thinkers ft. Simon Han and Tahseen Shams 1:46:01

3+ y ago1:46:01

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Our series Radical Thinkers places radical academics directly in conversation with trailblazing writers, poets, and artists, creating and nurturing two-way dialogues that will interrogate some of the most pressing issues facing Asian and Asian diasporic communities today. Featuring an interdisciplinary lineup of scholars and creatives, these unexpe…

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Minari ft. Lee Isaac Chung and Min Jin lee 36:08

3+ y ago36:08

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We're celebrating the release of Lee Isaac Chung's critically acclaimed film Minari, a tender portrait of a Korean-American family that moves to an Arkansas farm in search of their own American Dream. Today’s podcast features audio from our pre-release screening talkback with director Lee Isaac Chung and novelist Min Jin Lee.…

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Land of Big Numbers ft. Te-Ping Chen and Charles Yu 1:01:53

3+ y ago1:01:53

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Join the Asian American Writers’ Workshop for the official launch of Te-Ping Chen’s extraordinary debut short story collection, Land of Big Numbers. Assured and immersive, the stories in Land of Big Numbers move confidently between the United States and China, shifting from realism to magical realism, and forming intimate portraits that draw from C…

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Black and Asian Feminist Solidarities 1:17:48

3+ y ago1:17:48

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What are the radical possibilities of catalyzing cross-racial feminist solidarities, imaginations, and substantive realities? What revolutions must we create within ourselves to dismantle our prejudices, discrimination, and silences to create the world we want to see? Today’s podcast features audio from our recent event Siblings in Liberation, Blac…

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Imagining Identity Across the Pond ft. Romalyn Ante, Will Harris, and April Yee 1:12:23

3+ y ago1:12:23

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AAWW and London-based writer April Yee present a reading with two of the UK’s leading poets: Will Harris (RENDANG) and Romalyn Ante (Antiemetic for Homesickness). Following their reading, Will and Romalyn examine how Asian identity is constructed outside of the United States and discuss the ways British colonialism and capitalism continue to shape …

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The Past is Not for Living In ft. Gish Jen and Meng Jin 1:02:31

3+ y ago1:02:31

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Join the Asian American Writers’ Workshop for our first event of the new year: a joint paperback launch of Gish Jen’s The Resisters and Meng Jin’s Little Gods. These two novels, released in early 2020, sketch out a dystopian near future that takes aim at several current catastrophes, and examine history, absence, and the passage of time as filtered…

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AGGIE ft. Mahogany L. Browne, Adnan Khan, Tanya Selvaratnam and Rachel Kuo 1:06:41

3+ y ago1:06:41

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In November 2020 we co-hosted a screening with Film Forum of the documentary AGGIE, on the life of philanthropist Agnes Gund, founder of the Art For Justice Fund. Following the screening, we co-hosted a talkback with activists and Art For Justice grantees Adnan Khan and Mahogany Browne, and producer Tanya Selvaratnam, moderated by Rachel Kuo. Today…

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Silent Firework Compilation 1:40:31

3+ y ago1:40:31

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Et voilà a very unpretentious compilation of some beloved pieces of mine. The result is a very soothing journey through the joys of classical music combined with pioneer IDM tracks, that always kept me good company. I hope you enjoy it while studying or concentrating.By Saeleen Bouvar

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The Life and Music of Lakshmi Shankar ft. Kavita Das, Jafreen Uddin 56:17

3+ y ago56:17

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Author Kavita Das joins Jafreen Uddin, Executive Director of the Asian American Writers’ Workshop in conversation about her book, Poignant Song: The Life and Music of Lakshmi Shankar. Shankar, who was Grammy-nominated, was the most prominent Indian female musician in the movement that brought Indian music to the West in the late 1960’s. This event,…

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Fireside Chat: R.O. Kwon with AAWW E.D. Jafreen Uddin 29:11

3+ y ago29:11

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We're launching a new virtual event series at AAWW. Presented quarterly, these virtual “fireside chats” will feature a renowned Asian diasporic author in conversation with our Executive Director Jafreen Uddin, sharing updates from AAWW, and discussing AAWW from a writer’s perspective. This series will kick off with a conversation led by R. O. Kwon,…

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Racing the Essay with Cathy Park Hong, Aimee Nezhukumatathil, Sejal Shah, and Piyali Bhattacharya 1:15:46

3+ y ago1:15:46

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This fall, the Asian American Writers’ Workshop is celebrating the art of the essay. Featuring longtime poets and fiction writers with debut essay collections out this year, this conversation will take an intersectional look at Asian American identity, genre, gender, race, publishing, and the way the essay form allows writers to dance, dodge, spar,…

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Kinky Sunday Service @ Kinky Sunday’s Online 1:11:41

3+ y ago1:11:41

1:11:41

This set is the C*NT-tribution to the party series Kinky Sundays . One half is bathed in the light of housey tunes by Cajmere, Bobmo and Ethyl & Flori, while the second half gets deeper with Jas Shaw, Arttu and the iconic DJ Bone. Enjoy a trip from Chicago to Detroit which will take you to church. Also check their soundcloud page Kinky Sunday’s to …

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Asian American Young Adult Fiction with Ed Lin, Marie Myung-Ok Lee, and Ruth Minah Buchwald 1:17:49

3+ y ago1:17:49

1:17:49

AAWW, Kundiman, & Kaya Press combine to bring acclaimed novelist Ed Lin together with pioneering YA author of FINDING MY VOICE and co-founder of AAWW Marie Myung-Ok Lee, in conversation to celebrate the release of Ed Lin’s YA debut, DAVID TUNG CAN’T HAVE A GIRLFRIEND UNTIL HE GETS INTO AN IVY LEAGUE COLLEGE (Kaya Press, October 2020). Moderated by …

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The Voice of Sheila Chandra with Kazim Ali, Sheila Chandra, and Rajiv Mohabir 1:09:24

3+ y ago1:09:24

1:09:24

We're celebrating the launch of Kazim Ali’s newest poetry collection, The Voice of Sheila Chandra. Following a reading from Ali’s innovative and musical new collection, he will be joined in conversation by Sheila Chandra and Rajiv Mohabir to discuss sound, silence, and embodied art-making practice, as they reflect on Ali’s poetry, Chandra’s music, …

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The Venus Of The Dancefloor 1:14:34

3+ y ago1:14:34

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The Trans Day Of Remembrance is a day we mourn our siblings who were murdered because of the hatred towards trans people. One of the most popoular documented murder of a trans woman was Venus Xtravaganza, a young iconic Latina famous for her appearance in "Paris is Burning". She was found four days later, on Christmas day, strangled and hidden unde…

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Shithole Country Clubs by Nina Sharma 42:59

3+ y ago42:59

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We’re very excited to bring you an audio long read of “Shithole Country Clubs” an essay by Nina Sharma, recently published in The Margins. Named an Editor’s Pick at Longreads, “Shithole Country Clubs” is a hilarious and critical essay about Trump's New Jersey country club — the very golf club where he recently infected everyone with Covid-19 — and …

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The Sweat of Love & the Fire of Truth with Akwaeke Emezi, Elizabeth Acevedo, & Sophia Hussain 1:06:00

3+ y ago1:06:00

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The Asian American Writers’ Workshop is thrilled to celebrate the launch of Akwaeke Emezi’s new book THE DEATH OF VIVEK OJI and the recent release of Elizabeth Acevedo’s CLAP WHEN YOU LAND and WRITE YOURSELF A LANTERN: A JOURNAL INSPIRED BY THE POET X. The two authors read from their new works and have a moderated conversation with writer and Berke…

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Burning Barrel Acid Realness @Kampnagel 1:21:13

3+ y ago1:21:13

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Finally a herstorical set through the depths of black, latino and queer culture! It was partially the set you could hear at the third installment of the Feuertonne @Kampnagel Hamburg. The audience craved to dance inside this pandemic we all have to face. It was such a heartwarming experience! Please have fun with my set and stay safe! Due to social…

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Good Talks with Tina Chang & Mira Jacob 1:07:59

4y ago1:07:59

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Tina Chang and Mira Jacob join the Asian American Writers’ Workshop to celebrate the paperback releases of their books Hybrida and Good Talk. Following a reading from their work, they will speak to the intersections of their experiences and creative practices, discussing race, motherhood, and hybrid storytelling structures.…

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Translating Letters for Black Lives - Asian Americana 1:08:03

3+ y ago1:08:03

1:08:03

On this episode we are excited to repost a recent episode of Asian Americana, a podcast about Asian American culture and history hosted and produced by Quincy Surasmith. Letters for Black Lives is an ongoing crowdsourced effort to create and translate multilingual and culturally-aware resources that open a space for families and communities to have…

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Burial is Beginning: K-Ming Chang & Franny Choi 1:12:32

4y ago1:12:32

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AAWW hosted the launch for K-Ming Chang’s debut novel, Bestiary, with a reading and conversation with K-Ming and Franny Choi. Exploring the ways writing about girlhood can reinvent our definitions of community and lineage, and the ways we can grapple with and imagine beyond threats of violence that often shape daughterhood, this conversation delves…

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Global Chinatowns: Histories of Resistance & Community 1:08:38

4y ago1:08:38

1:08:38

Welcome to our Love Letter to Chinatown Episode! We’re happy to feature Mei Lum, Diane Wong, and Huiying B. Chan, the curators of Homeward Bound: Global Intimacies in Converging Chinatowns, hosted at the Pao Arts Center in Boston. The exhibit tells the stories of displacement, migration, resilience and grassroots organizing in Chinatowns around the…

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Hamburg: Kinky, Altered and Proud @PAL Stream 1:33:25

4y ago1:33:25

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This set is based on my appearance on the KINKY SUNDAY´S stream at the PAL Hamburg. I re-mixed my set in my livingroom in a higher quality with some minor changes. The result is a kinky, sexy odyssey through the delights of electronic music. I dedicate this set to the Hamburg Pride, which won´t take place this year, which means that organizations l…

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AAWW Fave: You Don't Say No To Yuri Kochiyama (ft. Fred Ho, Diane C. Fujino, Baba Herman Ferguson, Esperanza Martell, Laura Whitehorn) 1:19:54

4y ago1:19:54

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Today is the legendary activist Yuri Kochiyama’s birthday! We’re celebrating by revisiting one of our favorite episodes of AAWW Radio, You Don’t Say No to Yuri Kochiyama. In 2005, scholar and activist Diane C. Fujino released the biography Heartbeat of Struggle: the Revolutionary Life of Yuri Kochiyama. An in-depth examination of Kochiyama's life, …

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AAWW Fave: Disability Justice (ft. Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha & Cyrée Jarelle Johnson) 1:29:39

4y ago1:29:39

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One of our favorite episodes of AAWW Radio was from 2018 featuring Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice author Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha in conversation with poet Cyrée Jarelle Johnson, author of SLINGSHOT. Leah reads from her work and together they discuss meaningful inclusion of disability justice, Intersectional disability, and the nuan…

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AAWW Fave: Breaking Caste (ft. Sujatha Gidla, Neel Mukherjee & Gaiutra Bahadur) 1:17:13

4y ago1:17:13

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We’re bringing back one of our favorite events from 2018 called Breaking Caste, featuring Sujatha Gidla, Neel Mukherjee, and Gaiutra Bahadur. The episode features a wonderful conversation at the end about Dalit exclusion in the publishing industry, the connection between caste and women’s oppression, Dalit solidarity with Black Americans, and much …

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