Adrienne, Claire, Hazel, Natalie, and Sabrina talk about the film Minari, series Killing Eve, and documentary Iron Fists and Kung Fu Kicks.

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The team gets together to reflect on the past season, bringing up memorable quotes, favorite moments, and ideas for future episodes.

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Nisha tells Emily and Claire about how she grew up, the white space she was immersed in, beauty and love messages she received, her juxtaposed identity, colorism, people of color in media, being a brown PhD student, and more.

Nisha is a full-time PhD student researching in the field of education. While she is exploring different aspects of education to focus her research on, she is a part-time instructional coach for K-12 teachers teaching in various school districts across the U.S. She loves biking, her plants, playing with her dog, Ginger, and eating delicious tacos. You can follow her on Instagram @diaryofabrownphdstudent

Listen to Emily's episodes in Season 5:  

Episode 8 Asian Americans- We’re Normal, Too!  https://www.introspectives.uk/s5-e8-asian-americans-were-normal-too/  

Episode 9 Controlling the Asian American Narrative https://www.introspectives.uk/s5-e9-controlling-the-asian-american-narrative/

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Manny tells Claire and Sabrina about his Californian upbringing, experiences abroad in Holland, living in England, colonized notions of love, grappling with identity amidst white supremacy, embracing his Filipino background, men of color in media, and more.

Manny Madriaga works in higher education in Northern England and his research interests are on the processes of social exclusion/inclusion related to 'race', ethnicity, and disability in higher education. He is currently a member of the Critical Race Studies in Education Association.  You can catch him on Twitter @mannymadriaga

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Alice joins Adrienne and Claire to share how she grew up, the beauty and love messages she received, her lived-in experiences as an Asian Canadian woman, reading, popular media, and more.

Crazy Rich Asians reference, Lisa Lu: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisa_Lu

Joey Wong: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joey_Wong

Anita Mui: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anita_Mui

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Claire asks Taylor about her childhood, growing up with beauty and love messages, beauty icons, love, dating, and more.

Taylor Roh (she/her) is a Korean-American musical theatre artist, theatre maker, guitarist, songwriter, and playwright. Originally born in Busan, South Korea, she has recently relocated from Seoul to Glasgow, Scotland to pursue an MLitt in Theatre Studies at University of Glasgow. Taylor is the creator of#MusicallyESEA and will be writing a play about diasporic Koreans and their link between identity and music this summer. linktr.ee/taylorroh_sings

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Amy and Anthony return to talk with Claire and Adrienne about plastic surgery, gender roles, male body image, and more.

Listen to Part One of this topic with Amy and Anthony! Season 5 Episode 13 "I Think Women Are Just Deep": https://www.introspectives.uk/ds5-e13-anthony-and-amy/

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Sabrina, Sadye, and Claire  talk about conscious consumption of media, really listening as allies, colorism, and more.

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Adrienne, Claire, Sabrina, Sadye, and Sehrish talk about societal pressures on women, the "ticking" body clock, the biological clock, postpartum, judgments on the female body, post-pregnancy care and pregnancy itself.

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Adrienne and Heather share their mixed race identity experiences, cases of imposter syndrome, navigating through multiple cultures, and how they are perceived by others.

Check out Heather's other episode with us, S5 E14: (Re)Interpreting Society's Messages! https://www.introspectives.uk/ds5-e14-heather/

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Artwork by Sabrina.