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Nuances: Our Asian Stories

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  • f.k.a. "Nuances: beyond first impressions with the Asian diaspora". A podcast exploring the nuances of identity, culture, and how they affect everything from our career choices to our views on anti-racism, disability justice, LGBTQIA+ rights, climate justice, and more. Learning to be better allies. Humanizing the monolith one story at a time. Assessing our roles in supporting other marginalized communities. Highlighting careers that defy the stereotypes assigned to the model minority myth. Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nuancespod/support
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  • S4 E11: Dr. Sophia Yen on birth control, #PeriodsOptional, menopause, emergency contraception, and what your BMI has to do with it.

    S4 E11: Dr. Sophia Yen on birth control, #PeriodsOptional, menopause, emergency contraception, and what your BMI has to do with it.
    May 12 2024
    GUEST BIO Dr. Sophia Yen is a Co-Founder of Pandia Health, expert online women’s hormonal healthcare: from birth control to menopause and more. She graduated MIT, UCSF Medical School, and UC Berkeley with an MPH. With 20+ years in medicine, she’s also a Clinical Associate Professor at Stanford Medical School in Adolescent Medicine. Her passion is making women’s lives better She’s also the Mother of 2 future sheheroes and wife of a feminist. Taiwanese-American married to a Korean-American (feel free to cut the last 2 lines or edit as you will). Instagram | TikTok | Twitter | YouTube | Facebook | LinkedIn | Web MENTIONED Plan C Pills - Abortion AccessInequality in Maternal OutcomesMaternity leave in MexicoMaternity leave in CanadaMaternity leave in the U.S.Dr. Rebecca Gomperts from the NetherlandsCalculate your BMI TAKEAWAYS Sex Ed is more than just "how to not get pregnant". And. Ladies, you deserve satisfaction too. Emergency contraception: Plan B only works well if your BMI is <=25. Ella works for BMI <= 35. Copper IUD works for all BMIsHormonal birth control doesn't hurt your fertility. In fact it's often used before fertility treatments to stabilize hormone levels. Best to worst: the implant, vasectomy, hormonal IUD, tubal ligation, copper IUD, the shot, the ring, the patch, then the pills. If you're getting an IUD, you should be given pain management. DEMAND IT. (*paracervical block)There are treatments to help you transition in perimenopause and menopause. You don't have to suffer through hot flashes. Estrogen replacement also helps you avoid a lot of health complications from menopause.Women used to have 100 periods in their lifetime (8 kids), now they have 350-400 and each time we risk developing ovarian, endometrial or colon cancer. But periods are optional!!!The pill that works best for white women often doesn't for Black/Asian women. Find the right one for you. Disaggregating "Asian American" in medical research can help better identify genetic differences in our bodies' response to treatments. CONTACT Instagram | TikTok | Web | LinkedIn Host: Lazou --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nuancespod/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nuancespod/support
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    1 hr and 16 mins
  • It's AANHPI Heritage Month! Or Asian Heritage Month if you're in Canada.

    It's AANHPI Heritage Month! Or Asian Heritage Month if you're in Canada.
    May 5 2024
    For more detailed shownotes including transcripts, go to nuancespod.com If you enjoy this show and would like to show some love, go to nuancespod.com/support ABOUT THIS EPISODE Happy Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander (AANHPI) Heritage Month! Wow, that was a mouthful. Who’s idea was it to group us all together in such a long acronym? It’s a long story but let me know if you’d like me to do a deep dive on that next time. If you’re in Canada, Happy Asian Heritage Month. At least the Canadians knew scope creep was a thing. TOPICS: Unequal representation in AANHPI celebrations.Why May?Intersectionality: Asian Settler Colonialism.Upcoming series on "queerness" in premodern Asia.Episode recommendations that feature underrepresented Asian perspectives. EPISODES FEATURED Kiran Kaur Gill (Sikh American) S3 E08: Kiran Kaur Gill on fighting Turban Myths with occupationally relevant training programs at the TSA, FBI, and other law enforcement agencies. Dani Saldo (Queer Filipino Canadian) S3 E05: Dani Saldo is a hot, talented, disabled bisexual pop-star on the rise, who had to break up with her old (able-bodied) self. Rita Phetmixay (Lao American) S3 E09: Rita Phetmixay: No such thing as boundaries in Asian culture – the Lao diaspora, owning the narrative, and healing intergenerational trauma with compassion. Soo Jin Lee (Korean American) S4 E1: Soo Jin Lee was never told she was undocumented, but she somehow knew. Also: therapy isn’t the only way to heal. Manijeh Moradian (Iranian American) S3 E03: Dr. Manijeh Moradian on why Iran isn’t always considered part of Asia, and how the West may be misinterpreting what Iranians truly want out of the current feminist revolution Travis Nguyen (Vietnamese American) S3 E06: Travis Nguyen, interpreter & translator, on working with the deaf & deaf/blind communities, how intergenerational trauma manifests in day-to-day life, and more. Qasim Rashid (Pakistani American) S2 E4: Qasim Rashid on how Islam inspires him to advocate for women, for the poor, and even for his haters, and how he remains focused in a world full of injustice. AUSLIN (Hmong American) S1 E05: AUSLIN, the artist supermom who’s breaking the cycle of intergenerational trauma she experienced as a Hmong American growing up in Wisconsin. Offering Rain (Queer Ecuadorian and Indian American) S2 E09: Offering Rain on reclaiming their Ecuadorian and Indian roots as a mixed-raced multimedia artist, and the importance of early access to the arts to increase diversity in the creative fields. Rahul Borkar (Indian American) S1 E02: Rahul Borkar on being a music artist and producer from Louisville, KY Scott Okamoto (Japanese American) S3 E07: Scott Okamoto on losing faith and becoming an English professor at an evangelical school. Cece Chow (Trans Chinese Canadian) S4 E07: Trans Day of Visibility special with Cece Chow & her son Gideon – the wholesome Asian trans representation you needed to hear. NEXT WEEK I’ll be back with episode recs for mothers day but also a new guest, Dr. Sophia Yen! We’ll be talking about women’s health, making periods optional, best to worst methods of contraception, menopause, and what is missing from sex education. MENTIONED Essay by Chinese HawaiianAsians & Asian Settler Colonialism in HawaiiUSA: Asian American, Native Hawaiian, Pacific Islander Heritage MonthCanada: Asian Heritage Month CONTACT Instagram | TikTok | Web | LinkedIn | Twitter Host: Lazou --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nuancespod/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nuancespod/support
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    17 mins
  • S4 E09: Chef Jenny Dorsey on food politics, and the uneasy conversations that the food industry isn't ready to have.

    S4 E09: Chef Jenny Dorsey on food politics, and the uneasy conversations that the food industry isn't ready to have.
    Apr 21 2024

    If you enjoy this show and would like to help me spread the word about it, or support it financially, you can find out more at nuancespod.com/support

    GUEST BIO

    Jenny is a professional chef and food writer, researcher, and educator who studies food as the foundation for human meaning-making and identity formation. She holds a Master of Education from Harvard University and is currently a Fulbright-National Geographic Fellow in Singapore, researching food security in the context of hawker centres. Jenny is an IACP-winning photographer, James Beard Awards-nominated writer, and has been named an industry Game Changer by Food & Wine and a Trailblazing Activist by the World’s 50 Best. In pre-pandemic 2020, she also gave a TEDx titled, How Food Can Be A Source of Identity, Intimacy, and Vulnerability..

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    MENTIONED

    • Reem's
    • Billie Eilish's book flops
    • Jenny's TEDx Talk

    TAKEAWAYS

    1. The people we advocate for should be the ones dictating what advocacy looks like for their cause.
    2. Food is inherently political.
    3. Most books don't sell well - something to keep in mind if you're going to invest time and energy writing one.
    4. The U.S. has many of the pieces that could be leveraged for a more equitable future but we've been brainwashed to fear socialism.
    5. Aligning our business practices with our values can have significant positive impact within our own spheres of influence.
    6. Immigrant parents often struggle with their kids choosing a career that isn't seen as "moving up in the world" and while their fears around financial stability are understandable, there is an element of classism there that we need to acknowledge and work on.
    7. Recipes using grams are much easier to replicate accurately than those using cups and arbitrary units like "one onion".
    8. The US gallon isn't the same as the Imperial gallon.

    CONTACT

    Instagram | TikTok | Web | LinkedIn | Twitter

    Host: Lazou

    --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nuancespod/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nuancespod/support
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    58 mins
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Very engaging and well produced

Every season keeps getting better. The interviewer does her research, and you can tell. She guides the conversation well and makes each guest shine. You'll laugh, cry, do a happy dance, or wonder why you never knew about certain topics covered. There's no rambling or extraneous details without a point, which makes this stand out compared to other interview-style podcasts.

The diversity of guests is really fun. You never know who you'll meet: a brain scientist, an activist, a historian, an artist, a winemaker, a businessman, a care home worker. If you like hearing about different careers you will enjoy this show. You'll also enjoy this if you like conversations that discuss the intersection of various social issues through personal stories. The summary at the end is also a nice actionable recap for each episode.

It's a good podcast to listen to on your commute or while doing chores around the house. Puts me in a good mood every time.

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