Last season we were so fortunate to welcome JaeRan Kim to the podcast. We knew right away we wanted to record a part 2 -- and what better way to wrap our second season than this lovely convo with one of our favorites. Enjoy!

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Back in December, we were so fortunate to sit down with the fantastic Rohan Zhou-Lee. Rohan is a dancer, writer, organizer, and the founder of the Blasian March, a Black-Asian-Blasian grassroots solidarity organization that has within three years established chapters all over the country. Rohan has a degree in Ethnomusicology from Northwestern University, and honestly is just a TOTAL joy to share space with. We talk about everything from art as a moral compass, how prison abolition relates to Asian liberation, why and how the Blasian March came to be, and of course -- how we're reclaiming our peace these days.

They have been featured on CNN, NBC Chicago, USA Today, WNYC, and more. Blasian March has received several awards, including a certificate from the New York City Public Advocate. Zhou-Lee has spoken on organizing, human rights, and other subjects at Northwestern University, New York University, The University of Tokyo, the 2022 Unite and Enough Festivals in Zürich, Switzerland, Harvard University, and more.

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For more details about the extent of Rohan’s work, please head to www.diaryofafirebird.com and www.blasianmarch.org.

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This week’s episode is such a fun one! Human Regards co-host Carolyn and her twin sister Ros were recently featured in the new hit Netflix series, You Are What You Eat. Join us, as we break down their experience both in the research study and in front of the camera for the documentary. More behind-the-scenes coming your way all week on our social channels — listen to the episode out today, and then be sure to tune in for all the piping hot tea and more exclusive BTS from these hilarious and insightful twin sisters.

Guest Bios:

Carolyn Sideco is a Sports Relationship Coach and founder of Coaching Kapwa Sports Consultants. She makes a daily ritual of crafting and emerging her Filipinx American identities through relationship-building with people and energies of this world. She's a professionally trained kinesiologist, physical educator, and athletic administrator. Always confident in her Filipina American identity, Carolyn enjoys amplifying the experiences of Filipinx/a/o-identified people, and is proud to shine light on their constant contributions to our societies. She understands the special value identical twins have to scientific research, and leverages this privilege to encourage folks of color to participate in and be critical of research and data in their own lives. Participating in the Stanford Study helps make Carolyn an interesting person to chat with at parties, as she brings no karaoke-singing or other performative value to the scene. The Food 2.0 series also gave Carolyn a reason to beg her friends and family to help in grocery shopping and cooking, as she doesn't do either of those things regularly or with much skill. She hopes that folks who watch the series feel empowered to join in on the Food 2.0 conversation.

Rosalyn Sideco Moorhouse was born one minute after her twin in Tarlac, Philippines to Linda and Tony Sideco. She was raised in San Francisco following the family’s immigration to the United States. Rosalyn has three siblings and enjoys her brood of nephews and nieces. She earned a Masters Degree in Pastoral Ministry with an emphasis in Catechetics (Religious Education). Having worked with adolescents in various ministry settings since college, Rosalyn has been on faculty in the Religious Studies department at a Catholic high school for over 20 years. She takes her commitment to students seriously and considers the vocation of teaching an extension of her faith. Rosalyn and her monozygotic twin have been “Citizen Scientists” for over 30 years with Stanford’s National Twin Registry. They have proudly taken part in a range of studies to advance health and medicine. The plant-based vs. omnivore study was the most involved to date. Rosalyn found the fitness and biometric components most interesting and loved interacting with everyone involved in the project. Friends describe Rosalyn as fiercely loyal and adept at anticipating what they enjoy. Rosalyn lives with her husband, enjoying an empty nest while their son is in college.

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Human Regards offers a curious, critical, and joyful container that unapologetically centers (and celebrates!) the experiences of women, femmes, and gender expansive folks of the Global Majority. Join us as we collaborate with extraordinary humans and rewrite the so-called American narrative, placing the complex fragmentation of the Asian Diaspora front and center.

Music and production by Shanta Loecker.

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Hello friends! We’re so excited to bring you our very first guest of season 2 today – Dr. Kevin Nadal. He’s a Professor of Psychology and his research over the last 30 plus years focuses on the intersections of race, ethnicity, gender, and sexual orientation, as well as microagressions as they relate to all of these communities and identities. He specializes in Filipino American identity and experience. He is the author of 10 books including, "That's So Gay! Microaggressions and Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Community”. Kevin is experienced in multicultural consulting, primarily leading trainings in corporate and non-profit organizations. And fun fact – in 2006, he was named one of People Magazine's hottest bachelors and in 2018, he was named one of NBC’s Pride 30. Please remember to click that listener supporter link in the show notes after you listen – we are entirely community driven and appreciate your support.

For more details about the extent of Kevin’s work, or for contact information and inquiries, please head to https://www.kevinnadal.com/.

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We have a special treat for you this week! You may remember Mila’s guest episode from season 1! Carolyn and I had her on Human Regards to discuss her upcoming book, Everything You Think You Know About Adoption is A Lie. Well, lucky for us, she decided to release the book in audio form, and we have the introductory episode cued up for you here! Please enjoy this intro, The Call, and then head to the link below for all five episodes available now from this incredible writer, poet, and artist.

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Everything You Think You Know About Adoption is A Lie, Podcast Description:

As Adoption Survivors, our Voices are too often suppressed, ignored, and erased. This podcast is a declaration that we deserve to be seen, heard, and believed. Through a collection of insights, truths, personal anecdotes, poetry, and reflections, this podcast seeks to deconstruct common myths used in popular society to uphold and perpetuate the larger Adoption Myth. I hope by sharing what I have learned, we can continue to build abolitionist communities as we envision and create a future that allows us all to know love, belonging, and liberation.

The Call, Episode Description:

Welcome to Everything You Think You Know About Adoption is a Lie: Affirming and Centering Lived Experiences in the Deconstruction of the Adoption Myth.

In this introduction episode titled "The Call," I share about the the moment I received a phone call that my Korean parents had been located, and what unfolded in the aftermath. I also explore the reasons and purpose for creating this space. Every You Think You Know About Adoption is a Lie is a collection of insights, truths, personal anecdotes, poetry, reflections, and thoughts intended to provide a more complex counter narrative to the dominant and overly sanitized and romanticized adoption narrative. The content is a step toward deconstructing common myths used in popular society to uphold and perpetuate the larger Adoption Myth. It is also a call to know the truth about the systems underlying not only the circumstances of my adoption but the historical and geopolitical circumstances of oppression of which adoption is an extension. I hope by sharing what I have learned that together we can continue to tear down the curtain of lies, so that the truth may thrive and grow within our hearts and our communities as we envision and create a future that allows us all to know love, safety, and liberation.

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Listen to more episodes of Everything You Think You Know About Adoption is A Lie on Apple or Spotify.

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Welcome back to Human Regards, where we invite you to reinvent space, diffuse power, and reclaim your peace.

Today we get back to our roots! The two of us sit down and chat about what’s on our minds as we kick off season 2 – everything from the transcendence of jazz in New Orleans to National Adoptee Awareness Month, and finding ways to light up our personal and spiritual power in the face of global violence.

We also get into so-called online activism, shadow bans on the gram, and the collective influence of speaking out against oppression.

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Welcome back to Human Regards!

Together, we invite you to reinvent space, diffuse power, and reclaim your peace. Like many of you, we have spent decades surviving systems, structures, and institutions that weren’t designed for us -- this show is about changing that.

Join us, as we expand and rewrite the so-called American narrative in a space designed for ALL of us to thrive.

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Welcome back to Human Regards, where we invite you to reinvent space, diffuse power, and reclaim your peace. We met on Instagram, and then subsequently on Zoom, phone calls, and all the ways were able to connect safely at the time. Fast forward to 2023 – we’ve produced an entire season of this show, and we are so proud of the stories, incredible personalities, and all the complex humanity we’ve been able to share with you thus far. Human Regards asks necessary questions directly, even if those discussions aren’t always “popular” in the mainstream. Season 1 featured a slew of wonderful guests that asked questions like: 

Well, that's just what we do, and we want you to be a part of it! It may have been anti-oppression work in sports that introduced us, but it’s ALL of these questions that have kept us curious, engaged, and interested in sharing collaborations with like-hearted souls like you.

We, like many of us, have spent decades surviving systems, structures, and institutions that weren’t designed for us – Human Regards changes that. Join us, as we expand and rewrite the so-called American narrative, in a space designed for ALL of us to thrive.

Original Pilot Notes: It's not every day you meet another self-proclaimed sub-5-foot "Brown Asian" who grew up playing basketball, let me tell you. Our pilot episode is an invitation to laugh, ponder, and sure, sometimes put on your serious face. We start out season 1 with our collective take on what it looks like to restore healthy space, share power, and reclaim peace as two women of the Global Majority who each spent over a decade in an industry built for, well, cis white dudes... *shrugs 'cause it's true*. Join us as we discuss the Human Regards “origin story”, and examine our collective experiences as self-identified women of the Global Majority at the intersection of anti-oppression work and, yup, youth basketball lol.

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Hosted By: Shanta Loecker and Carolyn Sideco

Production & Music By: Shanta Loecker

What starts with some slightly embarrassing fan-girling (don’t judge...) turns into one of the most honest, vulnerable, and insightful conversations we’ve had this season on Human Regards.

Suchin Pak joins us for a deep dive into what it means to have choices beyond survival, the wisdom of our so-called “sandwich years,” and saying no to free labor, particularly during the verrry Asian month of May.

Suchin is a trailblazer in broadcast media, an introspective, thoughtful parent, and a brilliant human immersed in the intergenerational dynamics of the immigrant experience. We get to unpack all of those hats, big and teeny tiny, throughout this cathartic, candid, fresh episode. Put three deep thinkers in a room, and this is what you get – a whole lot of big ideas laced with laughter, affirmation, and genuine care. We cannot wait for part 2!

Don’t forget to check out more details about Suchin’s podcast, Add to Cart, at https://lemonadamedia.com/show/addtocart.

You can learn more about My Life: Growing Up Asian in America, a collection of works edited by CAPE, featuring an introduction by SuChin Pak here.

Guest Bio:

SuChin Pak (she/hers) is a veteran journalist with more than twenty-five years of experience reporting and hosting for MTV, ABC, NBC, Discovery Networks, Oxygen, and E! among others. She is well known for being the first and only Korean American woman reporter at MTV News. From hosting red carpet shows to reporting on presidential elections, international relief efforts, and covering some of the biggest headlines in news, Pak has been a dedicated journalist since the age of sixteen. She currently hosts the podcast Add to Cart, a clever, subversive, and often hilarious take on consumerism. In each episode, the hosts dig into everything we buy (and buy into) and what those things say about who we are as people.

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Production, Music, and Design By: Shanta Loecker

This week, we welcome JaeRan Kim to the show, and her research and writing has transformed the way we interact with the experiences of transracial, transnational adoptees for well over a decade. JaeRan shares a wealth of knowledge with us, some vital historical anecdotes like the painful US legacy of organized 'Orphan Trains', and her love for embracing process over product in this episode. She also reminds us all to pushback on monolithic thinking. There is more than one way; there is more than one narrative. Everything JaeRan does highlights the diversity of experiences in the often oversimplified and silenced communities most impacted by adoption – the adoptees, the displaced, the former foster youth. This episode will pull you in – in a personal way, in an intellectual way, in a social way – there are no limits to the depth of JaeRan’s community advocacy, research, storytelling, teaching, and impact in a society that might otherwise erase us, as transracial, transnational adoptees.

Guest Bio: JaeRan Kim, Ph.D., MSW, (she/hers) is an Associate Professor in the School of Social Work and Criminal Justice at the University of Washington at Tacoma. JaeRan’s research is focused on the wellbeing of adoptees, exploring disability, race, and transnational experiences for adoptees. JaeRan is passionate about engaging in community-based projects and has been blogging at Harlow’s Monkey, which focuses on the transracial/transnational adoptee experience, since 2006.

Follow and support JaeRan’s important work and writing at:

https://harlows-monkey.com

https://transnationaladoptionproject.com 

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Production, Music, and Design By: Shanta Loecker

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