Hmong•𝘪𝘴𝘩

The Hmong•𝘪𝘴𝘩 podcast is excited to close out season 1 with its first guest of the season: Susan Mai Lee Her, a distinguished master shaman with a Masters of Arts degree in education! Susan has been a practicing shaman for the past 14 years. She has traveled all over the United States and Southeast Asia healing and educating people about her gift. Susan founded Uplift the Human Spirit, a non-profit organization to empower and unify the Hmong people through preserving Hmong language, culture, and religion.

In season 1, episode 9 of the Hmong•𝘪𝘴𝘩 podcast, Pachia and Shoun explain why Hmong people are refugees to the United States.

In season 1, episode 8 of the Hmong•𝘪𝘴𝘩 podcast, Pachia and Shoun explore several stereotypes in the east that often portray Miao/Hmong women as exotic and dangerous.

Read more here:
How Sun Fo (Sun Ke) lost the election: https://www.laitimes.com/en/article/1u35q_21jtc.html

Mayor Investigated for Insulting Miao Minority: https://www.sixthtone.com/news/1504/mayor-investigated-for-insulting-miao-minority

The Four Beauties of China (translation in English available): https://www.chinanews.com.cn/cul/2013/03-15/4647901.shtml 

https://www.globaltimes.cn/content/812030.shtml

More links:
https://uw.manifoldapp.org/read/f53eaa89-d3e1-42d9-a820-bce1265b853f/section/a6b66c4a-6a8e-45b0-80f8-628d0074e0e9
https://sites.google.com/a/uw.edu/vietnamstudiesgroup/discussion-networking/vsg-discussion-list-archives/vsg-discussion-2011/vietnamese-sorcery

https://www.hmongstudiesjournal.org/uploads/4/5/8/7/4587788/yongshi_hsj_21.pdf

In season 1, episode 6 of the Hmong•𝘪𝘴𝘩 podcast, Pachia and Shoun take a look at murder-suicide cases under the Hmong lens, explaining how culture and generational trauma may play a part in driving these tragedies that continue to run rampant in the Hmong community.

Sources:
Men Who Murder Their Families: What the Research Tells Us
https://www.ojp.gov/pdffiles1/nij/230...

HOPE Center Facebook Statistics
https://www.facebook.com/page/2766495...

Nine Children Orphaned by the Murder-suicide of their Parents (Aug. 18, 1989)
https://apnews.com/article/895c204057...

Mother Mourns Family Murder-Suicide (Dec. 5, 1999)
https://apnews.com/article/fc848ddbba...

He Kissed his Wife, then Stabbed her 101 Times, Police Say (Sept. 29, 2016)
Sacramento Bee

Killings of women and girls by their intimate partner or other family members (Global estimates 2020)
https://www.unodc.org/documents/data-...

National and Local Resources (Sacramento, CA)
- 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline
- WEAVE, Inc.: (916) 920-2952
- My Sister's House: (916) 428-3271

Open Databases:
Violence Free MN
https://www.vfmn.org/reports

End Domestic Abuse WI
https://www.endabusewi.org/resources/

In season 1, episode 7 of the Hmong•𝘪𝘴𝘩 podcast, Pachia and Shoun discuss the phenomenon of sleep paralysis, understood in the Hmong culture as "raug dab tsog tsuam." 

In season 1, episode 5 of the Hmong•𝘪𝘴𝘩 podcast, Pachia and Shoun take us back to French Indochina as they examine the lasting impacts of colonialism and how it has shaped the Hmong people over time.

In season 1, episode 4 of the Hmong•𝘪𝘴𝘩 podcast, Pachia and Shoun dive into the concept of "Toxic Masculinity," taking a look at how it has taken shape in the Hmong community over time.

R&B artist Summer Walker was accused of appropriating and sexualizing Hmong culture after wearing "Hmong- inspired" jewelry to the 2022 BET Awards in June. The Hmong community online responded. Here's Hmong•𝘪𝘴𝘩's hot take.

Pachia shares more about what she thinks with the Laotian Times.

Read here:
https://laotiantimes.com/2022/07/16/hmong-inspired-ensembles-spark-discussion-on-appropriation/?fbclid=IwAR1r5E2sCU5l9JJn2gvfzeFDVVpTl723EsLpDDgBUccB09Pu-4ONLhik2xI

In Season 1, Episode 3 of the Hmong•𝘪𝘴𝘩 podcast, Pachia and Shoun go beyond Laos, tracing our Hmong roots back to China. 

In Season 1, Episode 2 of the Hmong•𝘪𝘴𝘩 podcast, Pachia and Shoun share stories of their travels to Laos as they further explore the Hmong diaspora and what that looks like in Southeast Asia.