Conversations With Two and a Half Asians

Conversations With Two and a Half Asians

By Thai M. Tran + Ann Shi + Chris AbbasSociety & CultureRelationshipsPhilosophyPersonal Journals
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Conversations With Two and a Half Asians episodes

  • EP008 - WORKING WHILE ASIAN
    Oh boy, we're back! After a long hiatus that saw us sitting and having a long hard think about what we've done, we decided that it is indeed ok for us to be spewing these thoughts into the aether. So the microphones went hot again and caught us muttering about being cogs in the capitalist machine. Or as my film teacher used to say: we're all whores in the capitalist gangbang; we're just bickering over price.
    1 hr 2 min
  • EP005 - WHAT WHITE SUPREMACY TAKES FROM US
    Growing up Asian in America means you grow up, like everyone else, entrenched in a culture and society built upon a foundation of white supremacy. But unlike those whom the system was built for, minorities struggle to be part of a system and structure that doesn’t fully accept them.
    57 min
  • EP004 - DATING WHILE ASIAN
    Ever date an Asian person? What kind of partner were you to them? And was race a factor in your relationship? Join us as we talk about our dating lives and how utterly cringy, sad, and amusing it all is to date while Asian in America.
    1 hr 20 min
  • EP003 - TRAUMA PT.2
    Part two of our episode on trauma. What does it say that we had to make this episode a two-parter? Come join us as we do some more excavation of our pasts and see what kind of Burt Reynolds-shaped skeletons pop out.
    36 min
  • EP002 - TRAUMA PT.1
    Growing up in an immigrant family entails its own unique set of difficulties. This week we dig up old childhood traumas. Trigger warning: descriptions of child abuse.
    47 min
  • EP001 - HELLO, WORLD.
    Our inaugural episode! Allow us to introduce ourselves, your friendly neighborhood Asians! This seems like the start of a beautiful friendship, yes??
    44 min

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Two and a half Asian friends --- Ann, Chris, and Thai --- come from very different flavors of the Asian American experience. They explore their pasts growing up Asian in the Western world, how that…