Best Hmong Radio Podcasts (2024)

For our final episode of the MinneAsianStories Podcast: Season 2, we continue our look at adoptee justice organizing in Minnesota. Our host Julia Gay chats with community organizer and founding board member of CAAL Margie Jo Eun Joo Andreason about how transracial and transnational adoptees in Minnesota are creating adoptee centered spaces for proc…

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"Our healing is rooted in decolonizing ourselves" 39:27

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For our final two episodes of the MinneAsianStories Podcast: Season 2, we're exploring how Asian Minnesotan transnational adoptees have been shifting the dominant narrative around adoption to center adoptee voices and experiences. Our MinneAsianStories Correspondent Hannah Kinzer chats with educator, writer, and DEI consultant Dr. SooJin Pate about…

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"We've always had queer Hmong artists as a part of SOY" 45:32

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This week on the MinneAsianStories Podcast: Season 2, we continue our celebration of Pride Month with our look at Shades of Yellow (SOY), the first Hmong LGBTQ+ organization. Our host Julia Gay chats with Xay Yang, Queer Justice Director and Mental Health Therapist at Transforming Generations and former SOY participant and volunteer. Xay shares her…

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“We were finally able to celebrate that part of ourselves” 44:01

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Happy Pride Month! As we transition from Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander Heritage Month to Pride Month this June, we are thrilled to highlight the significant work and contributions of queer Asian Minnesotan organizers in our community. This week on the MinneAsianStories Podcast: Season 2, our host Julia Gay chats with Ka Oskar…

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"How do you get men to support your organization?... You don't" 28:27

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This week on the MinneAsianStories Podcast: Season 2, our host Julia Gay chats with Gaoly Yang, the former Executive Director of the Women’s Association of Hmong and Lao (WAHL), the first Hmong and Lao women's organization in Minnesota. Gaoly reflects on her early days of gender-based organizing and what inspired her to help found the first ever Hm…

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"Education should be used as a tool for liberation" 27:25

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MK draws on the metaphor of root systems and waterways to highlight the healing bonds between community members amidst the toxic effects of racism. She shares her perspective on Ethnic Studies organizing and how she has incorporated lessons from mothering and movements across the country into the local fight for Ethnic Studies in our schools. We wa…

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"We were born out of the struggles of the people before us" 53:12

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Joyce shares her perspective growing up in the civil rights era in a family that experienced both the privilege as Chinese scholars and persecution as immigrants in Minnesota. She highlights how activism in the Black community and different communities within the Asian community have shaped calls for Ethnic Studies in broader Asian American movemen…

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"Which came first, the dream or the dreamer?" 45:04

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Marlina moved from New York City to the Twin Cities with her daughter in the early 90's and was welcomed with open arms by a community of Asian American dreamers. What started as potluck dinners, soon grew into a flourishing community of artists that organized the Asian American Cultural Renaissance Conference, the Don't Buy Miss Saigon protests an…

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"Don't give power to people who cannot see you" 38:54

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This year, 2022, marks the 30th anniversary of the Asian American Renaissance, which was a community based Asian American arts organization which began in 1992 and was an anchor in the Asian community here in Minnesota for the decade that followed. The Asian American Renaissance gave birth to many of the Asian arts and cultural organizations we kno…