Rooted Cosmopolitans

Rooted Cosmopolitans

By Monica Furman and Yekaterina GyaduSociety & CulturePersonal Journals
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Rooted Cosmopolitans episodes

  • Anatoliy O.

    Yeka and Monica speak with fellow Russian-speaking artist Anatoliy O. for this episode of Rooted Cosmpolitans!

    Anatoliy O is a Eurasian actor, poet, and musician raised between Europe, Asia and the US. His work lives between mediums—stage, film, music—and always centers the lives of those at the edges. He is a two-time award winner at the United Solo Festival and Edinburgh Fringe Festival for his original musical solo show OTOSOTR, and a ScreenCraft finalist for his play about exile, memory, and masculinity. As a spoken word artist, Anatoliy's viral pieces like What Color Is Your Passport and Decolonization of the Mind (performed at TEDx Astana) have been shared widely across social media, resonating deeply with first-gen and immigrant communities. Anatoliy believes that art is not a product—it's a survival instinct. He teaches poetry and piano to their daughter Naomi, dance to their son Keanu and co-writes with his life partner, Tatyana, as they build a new American narrative from scratch—one that doesn't ask for permission.
    47 min
  • Polina Sherry

    This episode, Yeka and Monica speak with author, ex-ballerina, and TikTok star in her own right, Polina Sherry. Polina was born and raised in Qazaqstan to a Koryo-saram mother and an English father. After getting kicked out of a Russian ballet school, she moved to the UK to live with her grandmother. She graduated from university during COVID. With no jobs available at that time, she applied to be an English teacher in Japan. Her debut novel "Little Miss Fortune" is coming exclusively to Kobo on Aug 28th.

    58 min
  • Victoria Malone

    Yekaterina and Monica are back this month, and this time with their very first official guest! Victoria Malone is a writer and lawyer who writes about issues of race, gender, identity, and belonging. She has been published in Midnight & Indigo, PopSugar, Austin Woman Magazine, Teen Vogue, and Zora. Victoria earned her Juris Doctor degree from Harvard Law School and her bachelor's degree in journalism and Canadian Studies from Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada. She is currently working towards her MFA from Warren Wilson College. She lives in Malibu, CA with her husband and their French bulldog Noam Chomsky. Follow her on Tik Tok @chicnarrative.

    1 hr 9 min
  • Heated Russian-Speakers

    Yeka and Monica sit down to discuss what's on everyone's minds...Heated Rivalry! We take a deep dive into Western media representation of Russian-speakers and what the show has meant to us.

    44 min
  • What is this? Who are we?

    Get to know hosts Yekaterina Gyadu and Monica Furman as they begin their long-delayed adventure doing what they do best - talking about themselves.

    31 min

About Rooted Cosmopolitans

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Rooted Cosmopolitans explores the diversity of Russian speakers and the third cultures that form from our Slavic roots.