Director and producer Jenny Shi joins Dave, Kin, and Diana to talk about her feature-length documentary Finding Yingying. Finding Yingying is about the life and death of Zhang Yingying, a Chinese visiting student at University of Illinois-Urbana Champagne, who was kidnapped and murdered June 9, 2017. The film poignantly focuses on Yingying and her family, challenging traditional crime narratives, and interlaces Asian American issues such as media representation, school funding, sexual violence, and bridging cultural gaps.

Finding Yingying premiers December 11. For more information, go to www.findingyingying.com.

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TWITTER:

Finding Yingying (https://twitter.com/YingyingFilm)

Jenny Shi (https://twitter.com/jiayanjennyshi)

Professor Kin Cheung (https://twitter.com/ProfKinCheung)

REFERENCED RESOURCES:

Student visa rule change unfair, foolish, by Kin Cheung: https://www.mcall.com/opinion/mc-opi-international-students-cheung-20200714-nrpcalcqdzblbjvqulqjnkzrwa-story.html

Revisionist History, what's wrong with the LSATs and how to improve higher ed:

http://revisionisthistory.com/episodes/32-the-tortoise-and-the-hare

Man Who Killed Korean Woman 'just felt like it,' Brisbane Times:

https://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/national/queensland/man-admits-killing-korean-woman-in-queensland-20180806-p4zvrl.html

Annie Le's article on petty crime at Yale: https://www.webcitation.org/5jnWl6Nsz?url=http://bbs.yale.edu/images/B10_1.pdf

Norcal Rapist Trial just concluded. Convicted on all counts! Should receive life in prison. Sentencing next month: https://www.kcra.com/article/norcal-rapist-trial-verdict-roy-waller-nov-18/34715221

Three University gynecologists sexually assaulting Asian students at USC, UCLA & Columbia, each over 30 years of abuse.

-USC: https://nextshark.com/usc-gynecologist-george-tyndall-target-chinese-students/

-UCLA: https://www.cnn.com/2020/11/17/us/university-of-california-settlement-gynecologist/index.html

-Columbia: https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/09/us/columbia-university-ob-gyn-robert-hadden/index.html

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Jules, Michelle, Peter and Diana take a deep dive into the latest on COVID vaccine development (as of November 19). Why are the vaccines closest to approval from US companies mRNA-based? Why isn’t the US supporting COVAX, the international vaccine accelerator? We discuss the long, continuing legacy of white nations using POC as lab rats to advance medicine, what we’re suspicious of and optimistic about vaccine prospects.

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REFERENCED RESOURCES:

SARS-CoV-2 Vaccines in Development, Nature: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2798-3

COVAX, World Health Organization: https://www.who.int/initiatives/act-accelerator/covax

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Nia and Tee have an expansive conversation about Transgender Day of Remembrance from an Asian diaspora perspective. Let us remember the trans and gender-diverse people who have been victims of white supremacist police violence and violent policing within communities of color. Let us fight the colonialism at the heart of violence against trans femmes, and question hegemony in all its manifold manifestations.

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Twitter:

Nia(@nxn_nrc)

Tee (@t_uxo)

REFERENCED RESOURCES:

Trans Day of Remembrance 2020 Update: https://transrespect.org/en/tmm-update-tdor-2020/

Demand Justice for Tony McDade: https://actionnetwork.org/letters/demand-justice-for-tony-mcdade?source=direct_link

Philippines deports US Marine convicted of killing transgender woman in 2014, USA Today: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2020/09/13/joseph-scott-pemberton-marine-deported-philippines-after-killing/5785522002/

Scientific Racism and the Emergence of the Homosexual Body, Siobhan Somerville: https://www.jstor.org/stable/3704199?seq=1

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1B-9GJkUg543_6n2IRaGzR6vrCMM0kmmP/view?usp=drivesdk

The timeline of LGBT in Vietnam history: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-m4Pl2nl93Q&feature=youtu.be

Call Her Ganda, Official Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=szI8Dv_EeHk&feature=youtu.be

Disclosure, Official Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ysbX6JUlaEc&feature=youtu.be

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Seibo Shen joins Teen to talk about psilocybin and the experience of shrooms. Seibo is the founder and CEO of the cannabis company Hanu Labs (https://hanulabs.com/) and has deep experience with psilocybin (aka magic mushrooms). Teen tries to describe to Seibo his first experience with the psychedelic, what it was really like, whether it was a worthwhile, and whether or not people should be encouraged to try it.

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Katya Kazbek joins Teen to discuss the recent film Borat Subsequent Moviefilm. This isn't a film review, but a critical discussion of Borat as a form of xenophobia and racism that is endemic to liberal politics. In particular, the way liberalism is built on a foundation of superiority, which requires internalizing the idea of the foreign Other as inferior (though not necessarily unliked). This was a really fun discussion, and if you loved Borat we're not trying to impugn you for it, promise!

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Twitter:

Katya(@kazbek)

Teen (@mont_jiang)

REFERENCED RESOURCES:

Supamodu (https://supamodu.com/)

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Carl Zha and Xiangyu join Teen to talk about their decision to pack their bags and leave America for Asia. Carl was supposed to go to China to see the water festival in Yunnan in 2019, but just never came back. He currently lives in Bali. Xiangyu packed his bags a few years ago to get closer to his roots in Taiwan. He's back -- temporarily -- but has his mind set on going to mainland China. Is this a good time for Asian Americans to think about leaving America for a brighter future in Asia?

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Twitter:

Silk and Steel Podcast (@SteelSilkn)

Carl Zha(@CarlZha)

Teen (@mont_jiang)

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Adam Hudson of the podcast Real Sankara Hours joins Teen to talk about the probable Biden victory and what the the new era of woke white liberalism will be like. This is Part 1 of 2 -- Part 2 will be Patreon-only episode for the overflow discussion, where we talk about Pan-Africanism and whether there is an analogous political identity among Asian Americans.

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Twitter:

Adam Hudson (@adamhudson5)

Real Sankara Hours Podcast (@sankarahours)

Teen (@mont_jiang)

Referenced Resources:

Is It Too Late: Black Leaders Discussion (1972)(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4FAlJFHkL4)

Negritude (https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/negritude/)

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Asian Americans experience a COVID fatality rate at least 3 times the national average in cities where we make up more than 5% of the population. Xiaoyun and Sarah, who both work in healthcare, join You Peng and Diana to discuss the often unreported healthcare disparities of COVID impact on Asian American communities. We share how we've personally experienced the multifaceted ways in which racism and sinophobia in science and medicine erase and kill Asian Americans--and give lots of practical advice on how to advocate for ourselves as patients. Always get a second opinion and if necessary, ask for a different provider. Hospitals are like any other capitalist business, and that means patients are customers. We have more leverage than we often realize.

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REFERENCED RESOURCES:

Asian Americans Facing High COVID-19 Case Fatality: https://www.healthaffairs.org/do/10.1377/hblog20200708.894552/full/

Ignorance, Orientalism and Sinophobia in Knowledge Production on COVID‐19 - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7323434/

Filipinos on the Frontlines: Our Bodies Are Not Disposable: https://planamag.com/filipinos-on-the-frontlines-our-bodies-are-not-disposable/

COVID Exacts High Toll Among Filipino Nurses: https://www.medpagetoday.com/nursing/nursing/88812

Black and Brown Skin Signs and Symptoms - “Mind the Gap” by Malone Mukwende

https://www.blackandbrownskin.co.uk/mindthegap

Systemic racism and U.S. health care - https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0277953613005121

The Effects of Racism in Medical Education on Students’ Decisions to Practice in Underserved or Minority Communities - https://journals.lww.com/academicmedicine/Fulltext/2019/08000/The_Effects_of_Racism_in_Medical_Education_on.35.aspx

US refuses to join international effort to develop Covid-19 vaccine- https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/sep/01/us-covid-19-vaccine-refuses-international-effort-coronavirus

Millions of black people affected by racial bias in health-care algorithms - https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-03228-6

Challenging the ethnic pyramid: Golden rules and organisational measures towards a more inclusive work environment

https://doi.org/10.1111/jonm.12838

Perceptions of Factors Associated With Inclusive Work and Learning Environments in Health Care Organizations: A Qualitative Narrative Analysis

https://doi.org/10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2018.1003

Stanford Hospital second opinion program:

https://stanfordhealthcare.org/second-opinion/overview.html

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. (2020). Prevalence of Both Diagnosed and Undiagnosed Diabetes. https://www.cdc.gov/diabetes/data/statistics-report/diagnosed-undiagnosed-diabetes.html

BMI cut points to identify at-risk Asian Americans for type 2 diabetes screening. Diabetes Care, 38(1), 150–158. https://doi.org/10.2337/dc14-2391

Incorporating cultural perspectives into diabetes self-management programs for East Asian immigrants: A mixed-study review.Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health, 18(2), 454–467. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10903-015-0181-5

Barriers and facilitators for type-2 diabetes management in South Asians: A systematic review.PlOS One, 10(9), e0136202. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0136202

The "battle" of managing language barriers in health care. Clinical pediatrics, 55(14), 1318–1327. https://doi.org/10.1177/0009922816629760

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Hailing Chen is running for New York City Council representing the mostly Asian and Latinx immigrant community of Flushing, NY. Jess, Diana and Teen talk to Hailing -- an Uber driver -- talk about the ways COVID threatens to break the back of the immigrant working class, and how it is now do-or-die to stand up politically. We hear a lot from the elite class on what's best for immigrant communities, but we rarely hear from members of these communities directly.

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Hailing's campaign website: https://www.hailingchen.nyc/

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We're serving up lighter fare for this bonus. You Peng and Diana deliver on the promise of an episode where EFPA reviews snacks. Here's what we've been eating and cooking during the last half year quarantine, with a bit of political discussion sprinkled like furikake on rice.

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