The One Piece Podcast presents our topic-focused series: Fight Together. In this series we explore the major themes, stories, influences and ideas in One Piece, as well as the reverberations it has made in the real world. We do not shy away from the uncomfortable. We critique and criticize, and we explore topics that polarize. We hope you listen with open minds and open hearts.

On this first episode of our third season we talk about colonialism and assimilation: its portrayal in One Piece and how it relates to the real world. On this episode we have co-hosts Zach Logan, Shannon Strucci (video essayist, @struccimovies, @criticalbitcast & @strugglesesh) Bryan Newton (animation director for Rick & Morty & Teen Titans Go) and guests Carol Grant (screenwriter) and librarian Paula Gaetos!

New episodes premiere the first Thursday of each month, and premiere a month early on Patreon!

We’ll be back next month for our episode on Asexuality & Aromanticism! It premieres next week on Patreon!

Important Links & Texts, thanks to Paula Gaetos:

* Queering The Global Filipina Body* Moral Evil, Economic Good’ Whitewashing The Sins of Colonialism* Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good* Fighting from a Distance: How Filipino Exiles Helped Topple a Dictator* Brown Skin, White Minds: Filipino-American Postcolonial Psychology* How to Fight Book Bans and Challenges: an Anti-Censorship Tool Kit* Kaetrena Davis Kendrick on Low Morale Among Public Librarians* Vocational Awe and Librarianship: The Lies We Tell Ourselves* Manifest Technique: Hip Hop, Empire and Visionary Filipino American Culture

The One Piece Podcast · Fight Together #12: "Colonialism & Assimilation"