Bruha Baddies

It’s a celebration! We’re dreaming up of all the best treats in our culture that we individually love. Behind every treat, there is a story of nostalgia imprinting itself into our taste buds and memories. This episode is about Filipino Desserts! We’d love to hear your stories of your favs while we share ours!

Recommendations:

Nicole

1. high compression BIKE SHORTS and FULL-LENGTH LEGGINGS

Daniel

1. Amboy: Recipes from the Filipino-American Dream by Alvin Cailan

Jean

1. PetCo Dog Inflatable collars
   

Much of our identity is shaped by how our parents raised us. Are their expectations of us based on their parents’ expectations of them? Do we carry those same expectations onto others in our lives? Is this a uniquely Filipino experience? If so, how?Today, we dig deep into the people we call our parents. Did/does Diasporic parenting impact our values? ARE WE OUR PARENTS?

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Instagram friends to follow: Drag King @Kreme Inakuchi & True Crime Stories Filipino Style @lagimpodcast

Past Guests dropping in hellos Ria Yap and Diana Calica

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Recommendations:

Nicole:

1. Sleeping with two weighted blankets.

Daniel

1. Filipino Ethnomusicology textbook from UCLA: https://californiarevealed.org/islandora/object/cavpp%3A209355

Jean (wanting to share 3 concepts)

1. Look up what ptsd is

One of the many indicators in our diasporic community as Filipinx is language barriers. Philippines has many dialects, first/second/third gen and beyond are sometimes raised without the dialect of their family, parents make intentional choices about being an english only assimilated home, and the list of barriers upon barriers are complex, layered, and nuanced. 

Today we sit with the co-hosts (Daniel Nero, Nicole Espinosa, and Jean Munson) on their experiences with language barriers, navigating in and around that, or experiencing the marginalization that occurs when one language is superior over the other.

Host Recommendations:

Nicole:

1. @tofutees is a young Black creative in Las Vegas with dope antiracist merch including embroidered dad hats, enamel pins and ZIIIIIINES. 

Daniel

1. Shiny Stockings, by Count Basie

Jean

1. @tagalogwithkirby (Joanna Your Tagalog Ate)

Whether you celebrate Valentines, Gal-entines, or Pal-entines day, don't forget YOU in the equation! Jean Munson sits down with Co-Founders of IN HER PURPOSE book, coaching, and business Rose Buado and Jennifer Redondo-Marquez. Finding yourself can be a daunting task and this collaborative pinay conversation shares how you or anyone you know can navigate that transition with IN HER PURPOSE as a resource and support (especially in a community where women are expected to give more of themselves everyday to others).

Recommendations:

Rose

1. In Her Purpose Ube extract on ihpshop.com 

Jennifer

1. 1 Gallon Water Bottle 

Jean

1. Check out In Her Purpose today and share this episode out to continue the great and good things Rose and Jennifer are doing for the community.

Whether you celebrate Valentines, Gal-entines, or Pal-entines day, don't forget YOU in the equation! Jean Munson sits down with Co-Founders of IN HER PURPOSE book, coaching, and business Rose Buado and Jennifer Redondo-Marquez. Finding yourself can be a daunting task and this collaborative pinay conversation shares how you or anyone you know can navigate that transition with IN HER PURPOSE as a resource and support (especially in a community where women are expected to give more of themselves everyday to others).

Recommendations:

Rose

1. In Her Purpose Ube extract on ihpshop.com 

Jennifer

1. 1 Gallon Water Bottle 

Jean

1. Check out In Her Purpose today and share this episode out to continue the great and good things Rose and Jennifer are doing for the community.

CW/TWarning

As bruha/x with our witchy Walang Hiya ways, all the cohosts have pets aka familiars. Pets that we refer to often as our family members. I wanted to look up what the cultural relationship Filipinx have with animals. The top 3 things came up in Jean's google search,

1. We eat dogs.

This information on relationships conflict and the limited research creates a gap in knowing the actual closeness and fondness that exists in our culture with nature’s creatures. So today, our Bruha Baddies team sits down to reflect on familiars/pets and how they impacted us in healthy ways (mind & body) as well.

Sources used:

Allan B. de Guzman, Denise S. Cucueco, Ian Benedict V. Cuenco, Nigel Gerome C. Cunanan, Robel T. Dabandan & Edgar Joseph E. Dacanay (2009) Petmanship: Understanding Elderly Filipinos' Self-Perceived Health and Self-Esteem Captured from their Lived Experiences with Pet Companions, Educational Gerontology, 35:11, 963-989, DOI: 10.1080/03601270802708418 @ University of Santo Tomas

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Recommendations

Nicole

1. VCA Mountain Vista on East Flamingo

Daniel

1. 1. Using your public library: I got a book (about bisexuality in the ancient world) through Interlibrary Loan. I also got 5 other books delivered to my “home” library because I requested them. I also listen to great courses and ebooks through the library apps. So many things to learn about. In transit: a book about Asian myths -- two are from the PI.

Rose

1. Listen to classical versions of songs. Makes you feel fancy (I’m having a Bridgerton phase)

Jean

1. Headspace the App for peace of mind and practice for noting (clearing the mind from anxious to do lists, self flagellation, and being mindful in the present moment)

Raised on the notion of meritocracy and that hard work leads to success, we reflect on work-from-home conditions from 2020. Does it challenge the Model Minority. If so, how? By making us negotiate whether or not we deserve to practice pausing. Guilt, being called “lazy,” and having to prove self worth through productivity may have come up for our Bruha Baddies hosts.

• First BB RECS in 2021:

1. Jean

• Good pillows.
  

• Read Harder Challenge from Book Riot

• Manta Sleep masks

Half the team of Bruha Baddies (Daniel Nero and Jean Munson) reflect on the year and the meaning of life after 2020. Close out your year with some of these truths about self discovery with your favorite magical radicals!

Bruha Baddies to return on January 17!

And in case the holidays are hard, lonely, or boring, feel free to listen to any and all episodes on your commute or chill time. You've never alone on BB!

Many times in our Filipinx/a/o community art is something to stray from, romanticize, or only hold value if it's lucrative. On Bruha Baddies, we want to identify folks that use it as part of an overall healing for themselves that eventually encourages others to participate in art making too. This 3 installment brings it back from Cali and Canada, to Las Vegas.

Meet team Co-Zi Las Vegas (Comics and Zines Las Vegas) and within the team is Nicole Espinosa (BB Co-Host), Jean Munson (BB Co-Host), and third co-founder Gina Parham (@artofgina) as they discuss their friendship and community building through their art. Collectively they talk about their different journeys that led to their healing and planning committee.

Episode Recommendations:

• Nicole
  • Milk + T (@milkandt) → Y’all know how I feel about the electoral college, but I’m gonna give my measly dollars to a QPOC business. IDGAF where the 45 fandom clowns have to go to get a boba and their yellow fever rocks off. Milk + T ain’t for them. Anyway, pleased as punch with the customer service at the West Side location, my Under Oat drink and the plethora of BOBA WASTED sticker swag Milk + T has to offer.

• Jean
  • Keeping a paper calendar, a good friend during zoom meetings

Where to find Co-Zi LV:

Facebook facebook.com/cozilv

Instagram @cozilv

Website cozilv.com

Email [email protected] (send us zines!)

Many times in our Filipinx/a/o community art is something to stray from, romanticize, or only hold value if it's lucrative. On Bruha Baddies, we want to identify folks that use it as part of an overall healing for themselves that eventually encourages others to participate in art making too.

Keet Geniza is our first international guest on Bruha Baddies and hails all the way from Toronto, Canada. They are an illustrator and they open up about artist block and social media's impact on art sharing. Tune in for their tips how doodling can save your day! We're fans of Keet's ability to artistically highlight fat experiences among pinays/pinxys, fat women of color, and queer women of color.

Ways to find Keet Geniza:

@makeshiftlove on Instagram

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