Welcome back to the Nuances podcast!  I hope you’re having a wonderful holiday week if you celebrate. If not, I hope you get some rest at the very least as we wind down 2024. Last week I told you that my next release will be for you if you’re not into the festive vibe, but would rather hear something spooky!

Well, I am here to deliver on that promise with our latest feed drop. Today I’d love to introduce you to the podcast “That Scares Me Too”.  In it, Dr. Sophie Yang and K.A Statz discuss myths and tales of horror from Taiwan and Asia. Together they compare and contrast stories from their cultures and talk about the shared humanity that is fear. In this episode, we’re introduced to unknown entities in the mountains of Taiwan. Enjoy!

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MUSIC

“Have You Noticed the Season?” by 23rd Hour 

“Let a Day Together Be Christmas” by 23rd Hour

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GUESTS

Rahul Borkar - S1 E2

Tonie Nguyen - S1 E3 | S5 E3

Lisa Danaë - S1 E4

Cece Chow - S1 E7 | S4 E7 | S5 E6(2)

Edmond Chan - S1 E8 | S5 E1

Ashley Chung-Fat-Yim - S1 E11

Charlene Vela - S2 E2

Tiffany Chou - S2 E3 

Rod Kim - S2 E12

Offering Rain - S2 E9

Season finale!!!! See full show notes for references & additional info.

Queering Premodern Asia is a limited series and the 5th season of the Nuances podcast about Our Asian Stories. Each episode explores different aspects of sexual diversity in premodern Asia with commentary from guest scholars. Episodes are divided into a narrative portion, and a discussion with a guest co-host from the queer Asian community.

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Ridwan (Ryan) Ah Seek, known as Ryan, is LGBTQIA+ activist in Mauritius. He is the former President and current vice president of Collectif Arc-En-Ciel, the biggest LGBTQIA+ NGO in Mauritius. He challenged Section 250 of the Mauritian Penal Code in 2019 and won the case on 4th Oct 2023, against the State of Mauritius.

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Queering Premodern Asia is a limited series and the 5th season of the Nuances podcast about Our Asian Stories. Each episode explores different aspects of sexual diversity in premodern Asia with commentary from guest scholars. Episodes are divided into a narrative portion, and a discussion with a guest co-host from the queer Asian community.

• Introduction & content warnings

🧧 If you would like to help me spread the word about the show, or support it financially, learn more at nuancespod.com/support

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Guest bio

Queering Premodern Asia is a limited series and the 5th season of the Nuances podcast about Our Asian Stories. Each episode explores different aspects of sexual diversity in premodern Asia with commentary from guest scholars. Episodes are divided into a narrative portion, and a discussion with a guest co-host from the queer Asian community.

• Content warnings

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GUEST BIO

Stella Gold is a queer and nonbinary Rebirth + Wealth Coach for changemakers and comes from a lineage of activists. They are the founder of My Gold Standard, a believer in wealth activism, pro liberation from all oppressive systems, and collective care. They believe in using business as an ecosystem for financial solidarity for yourself AND the collective. Their ancestors are filipinx, romanian jewish, scottish, irish, chinese, italian, iranian, french, german, british, and likely so much more. They hold values and beliefs in abolitionism, anarchism, decolonization, collective and ancestral liberation, and leftism. Instagram | LinkedIn | Web

Your host LAZOU is a chronically ill girlie and is dealing with a lot of brain fog and fatigue these last 2 weeks, so episode 7 will be out next week. Don't worry, I'm fine, I just need rest. However, I do have something to share in the meantime, and that's a feed drop of my interview on the show Immigrantly.

Feed drops are a way we podcasters collaborate and introduce our audiences to each other's show because our shows share common interests. 

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Queering Premodern Asia is a limited series of Nuances: Our Asian Stories.

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Guest co-host: Cece is a Canadian born Chinese transgender trans model, advocate, poet, and public speaker who is using her voice to lift up the marginalized, fill in the gaps, and instigate journeys of discovery

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Nuances podcast about Our Asian Stories. Each episode explores different aspects of sexual diversity in premodern Asia with commentary from guest scholars. Episodes are divided into a narrative portion, and a discussion with a guest co-host from the queer Asian community.

• Introduction & content warnings

Guest co-host: Stella is a writer, editor, and co-host for the Brazn Azn podcast along with the lovely Virginia Duan. 

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This week's feed drop will have familiar voices! 

Remember Karen Zheng, who co-hosted Ep. 2 But Where Are The Lesbians? with me?

Well, this time she's interviewing me on her podcast, Mx Asian American!

Did you enjoy the last episode "5. Gods, Sex and the Patriarchy"?

I'll be back with episode 6 of Queering Premodern Asia very soon! A new opportunity to interview another scholar came up and I couldn't pass it up. I think it would greatly add to the remaining episodes, hence the wait. But I didn't want to leave you hanging so in the meantime, I'm doing a few feed swaps with podcasts that I think you might enjoy if you're enjoying this series. 

Warning: this episode has explicit content and is definitely not suitable for work or young ears.

We’ve been focusing on premodern queer history on this show, but the Fruitbowl podcast is an oral history of queer sex today. The first 4 seasons of fruitbowl were interviews with queer individuals sharing their coming of age stories and their journey discovering their sexual identity. The current season is a compilation of the past interviews that outline the common threads in these diverse stories.

The episode I’m sharing today is S2E2 with Aditya who grew up in India, and eventually moved to NYC.

Episode description:

Raised in Hyderbad, India, Aditya didn’t come out until his second year of college in New Delhi. Luckily his family and friends accepted him, but an awkward experience he had at a bath house in Hong Kong served as a reminder that queer people can often be as racist and socially elitist as straight people. Over the years, Aditya has learned to follow his instincts as he has navigated his journey from India to New York City. It hasn’t been easy, but he eventually found his tribe. 

If you enjoy this episode, feel free to subscribe to Fruitbowl wherever you listen or connect with them on Instagram.

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