Escape From Plan A

With law-and-order candidate Eric Adams's apparent victory in the NYC mayor race, Chris and Teen look at the political divide between renters and homeowners, and how that sometimes overlooked fight explains a lot of not only politics but also culture. Plus, they speculate on how the musical Rent's mentality still persists today in social liberalism.

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REFERENCED RESOURCES:

Alex Yablon article on NYC's renters vs, owners: https://alex-yablon.ghost.io/renters-owners-and-the-new-york-city-lefts-mayoral-ennui/

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Fresh off his documentary ACCEPTED's debut at the Tribeca Film Festival, Dan Chen—friend and prior guest of EFPA—joins Chris and Millie to talk about his new film that examines the story of T.M. Landry College Prep, a school in Louisiana that was renowned for sending its lower-income minority students to elite colleges until investigations proved there was something shady going on. The trio also discuss what they do and don't want to see more of in Asian American filmmaking and their thoughts on various media rep controversies.

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Chris (@JesuInToast)

Millie (@OneMillicentCho)

REFERENCED RESOURCES:

ACCEPTED | DanChen.co: http://danchen.co/

NYT article on T.M. Landry: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/30/us/tm-landry-college-prep-black-students.html

Tribeca's ACCEPTED page: https://tribecafilm.com/films/accepted-2021

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One of EFPA's favorite guests—writer and activist Yasmin Nair—joins Chris and Eliza to discuss the annual kink controversy at Pride parades, as well as Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's fiery essay on social media opportunists, self-centered literary reviews, and other things wrong with the culture industries.

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Eliza (@aesthdistance1)

REFERENCED RESOURCES:

On Kink at Pride by Yasmin Nair: https://yasminnair.com/on-kink-at-pride/

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's essay (since taken down, sadly!): https://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/jun/16/chimamanda-ngozi-adichie-social-media-sanctimony

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One of the most unescapable topics of the past two years is Bitcoin and the hypergrowth of cryptocurrency valuations. Teen -- a crypto-skeptic who believes this is nothing more than digital tulipmania -- talks with Mike and Steve, two crypto-degenerates who spend an irresponsible amount of time in the Plan A Discord talking about crypto. We try to get to the bottom of why crypto seems to be taking over our goddamn lives.

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Unverified Accounts, which was started last year by Chris, Liza, and Filip, is now on the Escape From Plan A podcast feed! UA episodes will be deep dives into specific movies, books, and/or TV shows. For their "first" episode, their good friend Arnav re-joins them to talk about The White Tiger (a movie about a poor upstart scheming his way into wealth) and Gangs of Wasseypur (a violent multi-generational gangster epic), and what these books and films have to say about contemporary Indian cinema and politics.

*SOME SPOILERS

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Liza (@aesthdistance1)

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In the interest of getting the word out on this important fight, we are instantly unlocking this bonus episode.

Violence against Asian women wages on beyond the streets of New York, and into the workplace. Filip invites guests Sarah from the Flushing Workers Center, and Zishun from the Chinese Staff and Workers Association to talk about the 24-hour workday fight against the Chinese American Planning Committee, a non-profit that puts its home attendant workers through gruelling hours and conditions while withholding pay. Sarah and Zishun give listeners a first-hand example of upper-class Asians pitted against working-class Asian interests: how identity politics are weaponized, how funding is co-opted using Asian faces to harm Asians, and how NYC mayoral candidates seem to serve their constituents worse the more they buy in as political insiders.

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RESOURCES:

Details on the June 2nd protest: https://twitter.com/FlushingWorkers/status/1397212966630666241

Sign the Pledge to Boycott CPC: tinyurl.com/boycottcpc

Flushing Workers’ Centre: twitter.com/flushingworkers | facebook.com/flushingworkerscenter

Chinese Staff and Workers’ Association: cswa.org

Ain’t I A Woman!?: twitter.com/aiwcampaign | instagram.com/aiwcampaign

Youth Against Sweatshops: twitter.com/youthasnyc | instagram.com/youthasnyc

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Filip (@filipgwriting)

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Chris, Adam, Jong, and long-time friend Millie get together on a Memorial Day weekend to talk about the John Cena apology to China regarding Taiwan, Andrew Yang's subway cartoon incident, the new Vincent Chin podcast, and Naomi Osaka's standoff with the French Open.

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Channeling some of that Kwame Brown energy, the trio of Teen, Chris, and Filip go after some of the rank opportunism in the #StopAsianHate movement that is creepily detached from actually protecting the vulnerable classes of Asian Americans that are facing the brunt of these attacks. Also, they talk about the actual Kwame Brown videos, as well as the debate over whether Olivia Rodrigo is white-passing.

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REFERENCED RESOURCES:

Champagne Shark's video on BLM funding controversies: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VB6aO37c_yQ

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Adam is joined by special guest Yasmin Nair (writer, academic and activist) to discuss the intimate relationship between celebrity and power in the realm of adoption, especially international, transracial adoption. They begin by discussing the famous and complex Farrow-Allen case which recently came back into focus because of the HBO docuseries "Allen v. Farrow". The discussion then broadens to talk about how power, in general, is central to the reality of adoption.

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REFERENCED RESOURCES:

Adopting Difference: Race, Sex, and the Archaeology of Power in the Farrow-Allen Case: https://yasminnair.com/adopting-difference-race-sex-and-the-archaeology-of-power-in-the-farrow-allen-case-3/

"Shattered Bonds" by Dorothy Roberts: https://www.google.com/books/edition/Shattered_Bonds/nWYfAQAAQBAJ?hl=en

Article about domestic (American) adoption and the welfare system: https://theappeal.org/black-families-matter-how-the-child-welfare-system-punishes-poor-families-of-color-33ad20e2882e/

Article about Sandra Bullock's most recent adoption: https://people.com/parents/sandra-bullock-adopts-daughter-laila-people-exclusive-cover/#:~:text=Sandra%20Bullock%20is%20a%20proud,had%20been%20in%20foster%20care

Dutch freeze international adoptions after abuses uncovered: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/2/8/dutch-freeze-international-adoptions-after-abuses-uncovered

English language version of the Dutch report: https://www.committeeinvestigatingintercountryadoption.nl/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/COlA_Rapport_ENG_DlGlTAAL.pdf. Secondary link: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1nTO_LW8GhkSApf1KaSPsdkAUpH9hRwyC/view?usp=sharing

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Chris and Teen try to define boba liberalism since it means different things to different Asian Americans. Is it a media-obsessed EDM-loving Kevin Nguyen? Is it a social justicey Asian American activist/academic/writer who kind of disdains most Asian Americans? Is it both because the term is highly contextual? Along the way, they also discuss the Chinese armageddon rocket, alleged Chinese honeypots, and bid good riddance to office culture.

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REFERENCED RESOURCES:

Tom Clancy’s The Bear and the Dragon – A Review, Or On The Horniness of White Americans (For Chinese Babes and Justified Wars): https://lateralthinkingtechnology.wordpress.com/2020/07/27/the-bear-and-the-dragon-a-review-or-on-the-horniness-of-white-americans-for-chinese-babes-and-justified-wars/

Insider's article on boba liberalism: https://www.insider.com/boba-liberalism-critique-on-a-shallow-political-identity-amid-crisis-2021-3

Karen Shibuya's article on boba liberalism: https://planamag.com/covid-19-and-the-end-of-boba-liberal-media/

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