Asian Bitches Down Under

In this episode, ABDU starts with some news about the debate around contemporary arts and traditional values.

SBS: Like a funeral, anger over colours used to mark Lunar New Year in Sydney's Chinatown

We explore the meaning of love and the commercialisation of love during Valentines' Day.

We are honoured to have Shona of Kozziecom speak to ABDU about her experience in creating a platform for Korean-Australian and introduce the event Welcome to Koreatown which will be happening on 12th Feb 2022. 

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In this episode, we started off by sharing our cultural consumption on Nora Effron's film collections, and K-Ming Chang's Beastiary. We talked about Jessie's piece on wage gap determined by the characteristics confined by gender stereotypes.

Then~we continue our discussion of the rest of 6 animals that are on Chinese Animal Zodiacs. 

Please support young emerging artists by attending their shows! Here's the one we are supporting right now: 

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As 2022 Lunar New Year approaches, we continue to give shout outs to the amazing Asian artists creating unique cultural art pieces! This week we have Linsey and Claire showcasing their amazing works, please check out their sites and follow them on their instagrams! 

Helen have had the honour to talk to the super amazing Dominique and Sophie about their experiences working in the performing art with mixed cultural backgrounds, and the importance of creativity in our world. We also talk about they upcoming debut show 'Misc' and signifiants of creating a space for young artists of diverse backgrounds. 

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As we approach 2022 Year of Tiger, we are seeing more brands and corporations utilise Lunar New Year as a marketing strategy. On this episode we explore the commodifying and capitalising on Lunar New Years’ celebration by the western brands.

https://www.vox.com/the-goods/2020/1/20/21069477/lunar-new-year-brandshttps://www.nbcnews.com/news/asian-america/how-lunar-new-year-became-overly-commercialized-what-it-means-n1257545https://fashionmagazine.com/flare/chinese-new-year-products/

Instead of buying ludicrous luxury merchandises, we want to support independent artists who are the true connectors to the culture. Here are the artists that we want to give shout outs too:

Jasmine Tsan

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Janice Kiu
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Jasmine Nguyễn Gutierrez

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Hello Bitches! Apologies for the delay of this week's episode! We present you the interview with two brilliant performers on this week's episode, Enoch and Susanna. 

You'll hear Helen mention that this is the 'second part of the show'; unfortunately we have first part eaten by the god of technology so we are still trying to recover the first part of recording. Anyway, enjoy the interview and get your tickets to A Grain of Sand now! 

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Hello bitches, welcome back! We catch up today to talk about our holiday trips, Netflix consumptions as well as animations, and books that kept us occupied during this ever worsening pandemic. We also discuss some news that has been happening around the world of women in the past weeks. 

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The Silent Sea

The Lost Daughter

Dissolve - Nikki Gemmel

A Separation - Katie Kitamura

The Friend - Sigrid Nunez

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We have finally come to the end of 2021. On this episode we look back on the books, movies, and tv shows we absolute adore this year. We wish everyone a brilliant, safe, and joyful holiday, and we will chat to you in 2021! 

(Please enjoy the therapeutic sound of this episode's surrounding, and excuse the noise in the background, LOL) 

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This week, we remember the great feminist writer, bell hooks along a discussion on Black and Asian Fishing 

Katie Kitamura: Intimacies

As we grieve bell hooks, let’s remember all that she taught us

Taiwan Plus: Cinema Taiwan

Let's talk about 'blackfishing' and Aussie beach culture

WHAT IS ASIAN FISHING AND WHY IS IT PROBLEMATIC?

‘I legit thought it was a random K-pop singer’: TikTokers accuse Ariana Grande of Asian-fishing in new photos onlin

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On this episode we catch up to talk about our last weekend at Potts Point and Slanted Theatre's brilliant play '3 Virgins Unassembled'. ABDU dives into the discussion on how middle class white people's obsession on finding their own enlightenment through travelling to less privileged countries. We conclude the episode with shout outs to some amazing women of colour in business, if you are still stuck with Xmas gift ideas, do us a favour and check out these amazing products!

Beg-packers

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Content/Trigger Warning: This episode contains discussions of violence against women, sexual assaults, racism 

Such a chaotic discussion, as we ride through our emotions talking about violence against women and how deeply patriarchy penetrated our society that internalised misogyny appears without people recognising them. 

Take care when consuming this episode, it was not a happy chat, but rather an important conversation around women's safety and racism.

Stranger Country - Monica Tan

Asian Australian Alliance

Slanted Theatre: Three Fat Virgins Unassembled (2021

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