Enjoy this bonus episode of the podcast series Nuances: Our Asian Stories. 

Hosted by Lazou, Nuance's latest season is titled Queering Premodern Asia and each episode explores different aspects of sexual diversity in premodern Asia with commentary and personal stories from guest scholars and artists. 

Lazou reached out recently and, because our podcasts have a lot of themes in common, we decided to share an episode of each other’s pod with our listeners. Each episode of Nuances begins with a guest scholar who talks about some really interesting queer history of ancient Asian cultures; after that, a guest talks about their own personal history and experiences. As you may have guessed, this is my favorite part of the episode.

This first episode of the Queering Premodern Asia series is titled “In search of Prince Charming…and his King!” and the first half is full of swoon-worthy love stories of gorgeous male lovers of kings and saints!  Then there is a conversation between Lazou and guest Edmond Chan, a native of Texas who is also a professional musician and scholar. Edmond's conversation with Lazou is really real and raw and it sounds a lot like a Fruitbowl interview so check it out and, if you like the show, subscribe to their feed!

Here’s a LIST of their queer-themed episodes!

Fruitbowl will return in September with new Season 5 episodes. Hope you’re having a great summer! 

xo Dave.