Something that's bugging me for a few years. Had to let this one loose. Get full access to Ayoto’s Substack at ayoto.substack.com/subscribeBy Ayoto

My family immigrated to colonial Australia, just as the English, the Irish, the Scotts, the Welsch, Italians, Germans, Dutch, and the Polish decades earlier, eating up the exported Western myth of modernity and progress. We were swiftly inducted into the lore of the loyal ANZACs, the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps and their sacrifices for He…

Photography and words by 鄭博榕 aka Ayoto Ataraxia, published in Far Near, Vol. 5, Divergence. Special thanks to Lulu Yao Gioiello, Justine Liv and Ariana King for the edits and encouragement. Foreward Between the inception of this assignment and its publishing, my understanding of the world has changed drastically, particularly since October 7. What …

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A news headline reposted gained much response, “Woman slams selfish paragliders who 'made her think Hamas was invading Doncaster’—A woman panicked her village near Doncaster was under attack when she spotted a number of paragliders flying over her home and thought they were from Hamas.” The photo: a group of paragliders above the green rolling hill…

I speak with Robert K. Beshara روبرت بشارة, Ph.D., a scholar, psychoanalyst, musician, actor, director and artist; he has authored Decolonial Psychoanalysis: Towards Critical Islamophobia Studies (Routledge, 2019), Freud & Said (2021), but I discovered his work through his book, A Psychoanalytic Biography of Ye (2023). In this conversation, Robert …

Over the last few years, new divisions have formed amongst people in how they express themselves, online and offline. There is the positive-no-matter-what type of people who will not be afraid to cut you off should you bring an iota of negativity since, after all, “you are the average of the five people you spend the most time with,” said some moti…

I speak to Leon Benson, aka El Bently 448, who I first heard his story on Josh Rivers’ podcast, Busy Being Black. Leon’s story moved me so much; today, I still forget how interconnected we can all be. We connected on social media, and we started to talk. Leon Benson spent two and half decades in Prison, ten of which were in solitary confinement, fo…

As a good millennial, I take our mantra seriously: to share and to connect. Of the people I shared my previous post regarding, “So you think you're not allowed to speak about Palestine?” was Paul. He wrote back, "Wow! This is amazing. Thank you. It’s very touchy here as it is everywhere, but in the Bay Area, I can say that it is definitely anti-Zio…

Today is day 2 of the global strike for Gaza. As two unemployed artists, I called my friend yesterday about how we strike against our usual behavior patterns. I thought about my enjoyment of the same ongoing resistance against the usual weight of normalcy. If anything, it felt like a relief. Was the call for strike an oppressive superego injunction…

Edward Said’s daughter Najla directed the above rules at the blatant misinformation from mainstream news outlets. Someone wrote in response: So I figured today, Monday December 11, 2023, as part of the global #strikeforgaza we are asked to: * Don’t buy anything, cash or online. * Don’t use your bank account, and don’t make any transaction * Don’t l…

Professor Lara Sheehi is an Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychology at George Washington University’s Professional Psychology Program, where she is the founding faculty director of the Psychoanalysis and the Arab World Lab. Lara’s work takes up decolonial and anti-oppressive approaches to psychoanalysis, with a focus on liberation struggles in t…

I attended a talk by Avgi Saketopoulou with Leon S. Brenner regarding her book, Sexuality Beyond Consent: Risk, Race, Traumatophilia (NYU Press, 2023) and was struck immediately by her courage and daringness to take on the much-needed discussion within the field of psychoanalysis. Continuing the psychoanalytic theory of Jean Laplanche to analyze th…

I speak to abcde Flash as she has just finished reading my book, Sadness of Pleasure: Zen and the Art of Squirt. We recorded on the day Deborah Sundahl passed away, the author and pioneer in female ejaculation. Sundahl wrote the seminal work Female Ejaculation and the G-Spot: Not Your Mother’s Orgasm Book! abcde Flash is a Basel-based sexploratory,…

In January 1904, Samuel Maharero of the Herero people and Hendrik Witbooi of the Nama rebelled against German colonial rule. In the following four years, more than 100,000 Namibians died from the genocide. Those who survived the genocide were imprisoned in concentration camps, where most died of diseases, abuse, and exhaustion. It has been describe…

On this episode I speak to Mistress Saturn, a NYC dominatrix and BDSM practitioner, photographer and artist, where we speak about the Politics and Business of Fashion, Fetish and Photography. You can contact Mistress Saturn here: Worship Saturn Get full access to Ayoto’s Substack at ayoto.substack.com/subscribe…

You can hear Alex Zhang Hungtai's music here on Bandcamp: https://alexzhanghungtai.bandcamp.com/ He also stars in the 2018 film by Christopher Makoto Yogi, "August at Akiko's", which you can watch here: https://vimeo.com/ondemand/augustatakikos "My Film with Andrei" is releasingo on Feb 14, which you can watch here: https://vimeo.com/ondemand/myfil…

After a bit of a haitus, I get back with Junshin to speak about My Film with Andrei, Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Document a Sex Party. Get full access to Ayoto’s Substack at ayoto.substack.com/subscribeBy Ayoto

Episode 37, I interview Ian Robertson, an artist, photographer, filmmaker, writer and musician, about his experiences growing up in Detroit, experiences of being deployed at war and working in New York City. You can also watch this episode, with additional images from Ian, on our Youtube channel. You can subscribe to Asian Provocation’s Youtube cha…

Here's a preview of the coming season, first with Ian Robertson. Get full access to Ayoto’s Substack at ayoto.substack.com/subscribeBy Ayoto

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Tu has recovered after getting sick and lost her voice, but is now back, with our first video! You can check us out live on the Asian Provocation youtube channel. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LFilqk8b40k Get full access to Ayoto’s Substack at ayoto.substack.com/subscribeBy Ayoto

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Part 3 of 3 of series with Zehra Yousofi. For show notes, see the Asian Provocation website. — Asian Provocation is an independent podcast. It is hosted by Ayoto Ataraxia. You can be a part of the supporting community by donating directly, or automate a generous monthly support on Patreon. Get full access to Ayoto’s Substack at ayoto.substack.com/s…

This is a three part series, do start on the first episode if you haven't already done so, episode 30, as they are connected and self referencial. Get full access to Ayoto’s Substack at ayoto.substack.com/subscribeBy Ayoto

The thesis that started my journey into this podcast. This thesis, links on AsianProvocation.com, laid the foundations for me to start this journey and ask these questions that stirred deep within me. After half a year, I'm proud to share with you this conversation with Zehra Yousofi and her thesis, No Country for Diasporic Men. Get full access to …

Updates, news on upcoming episode, and Ayoto's first troll message. See the message on Instagram. Get full access to Ayoto’s Substack at ayoto.substack.com/subscribeBy Ayoto

This week, we speak about child abuse, weird online videos, while Ayoto dog sits. You can support Asian Provocation on Patreon Get full access to Ayoto’s Substack at ayoto.substack.com/subscribeBy Ayoto

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Ayoto and Tu speaks about cults. Get full access to Ayoto’s Substack at ayoto.substack.com/subscribeBy Ayoto

This is Part 2 of 4 of a series with artist, and Ph.D. Candidate, Scott Tsuchitani of UC Davis. This week we unpack the model minority myth as well as understand the construct of divide and conquer. Get full access to Ayoto’s Substack at ayoto.substack.com/subscribeBy Ayoto

Tu goes to a Vietnamese-Chinese-Australian wedding, and does everything wrong, especially during the tea ceremony. Get full access to Ayoto’s Substack at ayoto.substack.com/subscribeBy Ayoto

From episode 17, Miki Dezaki told me about an artist who used art to subvert and question the construct of Geisha and Samurai. On this four part series, Scott Tsuchitani takes us on a journey, starting with the memories of his grandparents, going from Japan to the United States. Get full access to Ayoto’s Substack at ayoto.substack.com/subscribe…

Ayoto keeps working on the releases of new upcoming episodes, Tu asks Ayoto the real questions. Like, what happened to your instagram? Why did you stop doing your photography, did you get radicalized into some cult? Get full access to Ayoto’s Substack at ayoto.substack.com/subscribeBy Ayoto

A palette cleanser and updates for the new season. Tu tells us about her exciting Yoga adventures. Drop us a voicemail at (+1) 347-688-9823 Now on TikTok, maybe. @asianprovocation Support Asian Provocation on Patreon.com/asianprovocation Get full access to Ayoto’s Substack at ayoto.substack.com/subscribe…

Ayoto speaks to Japan's premier feminist and anti-war artist, Yoshiko Shimada. She is also a lecturer on Japanese art, politics and feminism at the University of Tokyo. We speak about her works, censorship, prostitution and memory. Get full access to Ayoto’s Substack at ayoto.substack.com/subscribeBy Ayoto

This week, Ayoto meets one of his traumas on the subject of Tiger Moms, and speaks to peaceful parenting advocate, intersectional unschooler, anti-oppression activist and deconstructing tiger mom, Iris Chen. She is the author of Untigering: Adventures of a Deconstructing Tiger Mother. Additional references and links can be found on this episode's e…

We continue our conversation with Miki Dezaki, director of film Shusenjo, The Main Battleground of the Comfort Women Issue. We dive right in with topics on sexual racism, violence, racism in Europe, the dangers of toxic positivity and the Karen phenomenon. Additional bibliography and reference links can be found on the Asian Provocation website. Ge…

On this episode, I speak to Miki Dezaki, continuing on exploring and deconstructing racism. We speak about his time practicing meditation as a monk in Thailand as well as discussion on Buddhist traditions, racism and nationalism. Dezaki directed the film "Shusenjo - The Main Battleground of the Comfort Women Issue". Who are the "comfort women" and …

Junshin Soga is an actor, director, and playwright based in New York. He writes about gay Asian experiences, family and relationships, confronting racism, and creates stories about sex, aging, life and death. His play, One Fine Day, was nominated for the 2017 New York Innovative Theatre Award for Best Original Script, and In Dreams premiered and pa…

I speak to Ekene Emeka-Maduka between her painting sessions as we share our experiences and observations on colonialism, Otherness, diaspora, her observations on fashion and the art scene. Get full access to Ayoto’s Substack at ayoto.substack.com/subscribeBy Ayoto

Kevin Chung is an Asian American living and working in New York City. He is the founder of Kev Management, a PR, talent and artist management company with a focus on diversity and inclusion. You can connect with Kevin @kevinkchung or @kev_mgmt Kevin read from seminal book, Minor Feelings, An Asian American Reckoning, by Cathy Park Hong. News footag…

This is the second part of the conversation with Dr. Katalin Ferber. A social scientist, economic historian, émigré on two different continents, she is an experienced wanderer. We speak about her book, Islands of Otherness, on the myth of Japan, discrimination, ijime, burakumin and many other topics. Visit Asian Provocation website for links, furth…

Part 1 of 2 conversation with Dr. Katalin Ferber. A social scientist, economic historian, émigré on two different continents, she is an experienced wanderer. We speak about her book, Islands of Otherness, on the myth of Japan, discrimination, ijime, burakumin and many other topics. Get full access to Ayoto’s Substack at ayoto.substack.com/subscribe…

Eye-kai-year. Akhir Ali is a published author and contributor in Autostraddle, Meeting of Minds UK, iO Literary, and Women Writing Berlin Lab. She writes fiction, poetry, personal essays, and queer erotica. Her work centers contradiction, disembodiment, natural environment, and intimacy. You can also find her on Instagram @khikaichy This podcast is…

范坡坡 (Fan Popo) is a documentary filmmaker, film critic, and LGBT activist from China. Fan's documentaries have focused on performance-based activism (New Beijing, New Marriage, and The VaChina Monologues) and coming out as LGBT in the Chinese filial context (Chinese Closet and Papa Rainbow). He is known for the documentary Mama Rainbow and his well…

Andrew Kung is a photographer based in Brooklyn, with roots in San Francisco. His works is aiming to normalize Asian American beauty, belonging and individuality. In his first fashion, narrative photo book, "The All-American", he aims to redefine what It meant to be masculine and American in the context of the desexualized Asian American man. Here …

Anna Natt is a dance and performance visual artist. Her work has been showing internationally in theaters as well as galleries and alternative spaces. She was trained in traditional flamenco dance in Seville, Spain from 2000-2005 before moving to Berlin, where she is curerntly based. She is currently working on a masculinity project, and we’ve been…

This is Part 2 of the ocnversation with Johann Huang. To underestand the continuity, you'll need to head back to the last episode. I’m very excited to share with you this conversation, as we get personal and into the backstories of growing up in Australia as a gay asian man. The stories and experiences of Asian Diaspora, which I see is not just an …