Anti Anti-Asian Socialist Club

Doug and Felicia discuss post-Oscars thoughts, the current state of movies, the effects of getting the second vaccine injection, India’s rising Covid infection rate, post-pandemic life, and philosophical thoughts after a recent trip to the San Diego Zoo.

Recorded: 4/27/2021

Doug and Felicia welcome for the very first time in podcast history, special guest and friend of the podcast: Sabrina Skau, an LA-based director, editor, and ethnographer who is now also branching into political education for artists. She facilitates a program called Intro to Anticapitalism for Artists and is also forming a study and practice group called Post-Capitalist Visioning which will be an experiment in training our imagination to envision life beyond capitalism.

Recorded: 4/13/21

In this episode Doug and Felicia talk post-pandemic predictions and the future of the world as things start returning to relative normalcy. Felicia frames the pandemic year with The Strokes, Doug discusses the Marvel military industrial complex, which leads to a conversation about art as political statement, the movement of quantifying content consumption through algorithmic means, the sanitization of pop culture— and topping it off— a discussion surrounding another of Felicia’s recent breakups.

Recorded: 4/6/2021

Spring is in the air as Felicia discusses the experience and psychological repercussions of getting vaccinated and her hope for the future. Doug discusses having the exact opposite sentiment from the past week. Doug and Felicia discuss the idea of giving and receiving love as an Asian American, and the different experiences of dating between Asian men and Asian women in America.

Recorded: 3/30/21

Doug and Felicia discuss the immediate aftermath in the week following the Atlanta shootings: personal reactions, anger, frustration, and hope for the future. On a more real level, we have to identify the problem before we can come up with a solution. Doug gives a rundown of the organizations and institutions that have normalized anti-Asian sentiment during the last pandemic year, and the role white supremacy continues to play in both right and left wing seats of governance, power, and capitalism.

Recorded: 3/23/2021

Felicia and Doug discuss the unfortunate and sadly all too familiar account of the latest instance of anti-Asian violence in Atlanta, happening concurrently with this week’s record. Doug discusses his theory on the increasing spate of anti-Asian violence in America, and Doug and Felicia talk this year’s historic number of Asian representation in Academy Award nominations.

Recorded: 3/16/2021

After another week of brutal news, Doug and Felicia take a hard right and discuss MDMA, the global phenomenon of Asians at raves, breaking bad while watching Breaking Bad, and Doug’s existential break living within the four walls of NYC in the time of Covid and Anti-Asian violence.

Recorded: 3/9/2021

Doug discusses moving back to NYC, raising the question of who gets to qualify anti-Asian violence as “hate crimes,” watching awards show contenders NOMADLAND and MINARI with our parents, and Felicia’s new gig.

Recorded: 3/3/2021

Doug and Felicia talk UTIs and UBIs, New York protests, Jia Tolentino’s Trick Mirror (2019), Soon-Yi Previn, transracial adoption, and the problematic tendency to classify representation within a blanket Asian American umbrella term. Articles referenced in the pod:

CURRENT AFFAIRS (https://www.currentaffairs.org/2021/02/asian-america-and-the-politics-of-guilt?fbclid=IwAR3FkvI7kEvgfROQySspCvCXEQIF32yLD3bnR7NWytRLZXcfMgOuVWpdp1Q (https://www.currentaffairs.org/2021/02/asian-america-and-the-politics-of-guilt))

TIN HOUSE (https://tinhouse.com/mothers-lock-up-your-daughters-because-they-are-terrifying/ (https://tinhouse.com/mothers-lock-up-your-daughters-because-they-are-terrifying/))

Recorded: 2/23/2021

Doug and Felicia discuss hitting even more walls with Covid, the unethical consumption of capitalism within consuming The Bling Empire, the Netflix Cecil Hotel docuseries, America’s obsession with dead Asian girls, and the hold Los Angeles has upon all of us.

Recorded: 2/18/2021