(R)Aging Asians

Our special guest is Serene based in Vancouver but moved to Montreal to study history and political science at McGill.

Serene helped start the Pan-Asian Collective at McGill to create a space for BIPOC and queer Asian-identifying students who found it  difficult to find a community. PAC is a non-hierarchical group that  began with movie nights and they have taken-off since the pandemic and  their statement on anti-asian racism. Now they have members who tune  into their (Un)PAC events where they discuss all kinds of topics, from all over the world.

Serene  talks about what her experience has been like as a queer BIPOC student and organizer working with multiple different organizations.

Khando Langri is a good friend of mine who I met in several of my anthropology classes. We were both active in campus organizing & protesting, and she started the Students for Free Tibet at McGill. She's working on her master's thesis on Tibetan road construction and the camps in India, laying the foundations for her PhD. She talks about what it's like to be born outside of Tibet and what it means to engage with an exiled community and their landscape.

This week's episode I went solo on the podcast to give you all a bit more background on where the podcast emerged from, what I'm doing with it and its possible future. Apologies for the rambles, turns out it's hard to stay on track when it's just you and your thoughts. Please share your feedback and comments with me, I love to hear what you all think! Keep Raging!

Te An is a first generation immigrant from Taiwan, she grew up in a Chinese-Christian community, which became an important part of her identity. Listen to her talk about her stories growing up, working as a nutritionist in the hospital during the pandemic and what married life is like for her!

On the (R)aging or Aging Asian game find out what Te An has to say about 1. Asian Lady Visors, 2. Thousand Year-Old Eggs, 3. Durian, 4. Muji Pens. 

This week’s episode I chatted with Jesse Thandi from Terrace BC where  she is doing her practicum as a Speech Language Pathology student in  her hometown community. We talk about growing up in a small town, her  move to Ottawa for her BA in Linguistics at Carleton University and what  it has been like in Montreal starting her master’s in Speech Language  Pathology at McGill University.

Crazy fact only 8% of speech pathologists are people of color! Listen this Sunday June 6 to hear more of Jesse’s stories.

This episode features Daniel Chiu Castillo an anthropology PhD candidate at McGill and his experiences with his identity, migration and academia. As it stands his PhD project focuses on popular religion in Mexico and the saint Santa Muerte, the saint of death. He is one of the producers on the anthropology podcast Talking Culture. Listen to hear him talk about more of his projects and find out if he’s a (R)aging or Aging Asian! 

Listen to Joyce and Evan talk about their families, relationships and takes on being first generation Philippino Canadians in Montreal. They share some incredible stories from their childhoods and they play the Raging or Aging Asian game. Find out if they're real Raging Asians or Aging ones.

This week's episode features an extra-special guest who not only is an interdisciplinary artist and professor, she is also my mother, Mary Sui Yee Wong.

Listen to hear her talk about her experience growing up in Vancouver as the oldest child and what it was like to care for them once they got older. Full of heartwarming stories of three generations of (r)Aging Asians.

This episode is also available on Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/5qX4LbHQWnOlBxfLPUB4LK and as a blog post: https://ragingasians303.wordpress.com/2020/12/14/episode-1-becoming-your-mother-featuring-mary-sui-yee-wong/