A Lot To Process features conversations among a diverse group of friends - writers, thinkers, educators and aficionados - about pop culture, books, lived experience and current events. Our multigenerational, multiracial creative team uncovers the problematic and the transcendent, bringing many identities - feminist, queer, straight, Black, White, Asian and more - to the conversation.
Framing Britney Spears has the ALTP team all abuzz. Hosts Kerry Ose, Joanna Chen and Brianne Young recap the documentary and talk about our own experiences as young girls trying to define ourselves. We look at our own complicity in tidy media narratives and what we can learn from all the ways we've been wrong about Britney and so many other young people who have the audacity to be creative, talented and successful.
15 Feb 2021
A Dumpling For Your Thoughts
ALTP is honored to ring in the Lunar New Year with Suzanne Chen, lifelong foodie, Plano Magazine Girl Boss 2020 (http://planomagazine.com/girl-boss-2020-suzanne-chen/), and mom to our own Joanna Chen. In this interview, Joanna and Suzanne describe in delicious detail regional Chinese cuisines and other foods they love with a passion. They explore how food anchors identity, nurtures relationships and leads to adventure, including cooking classes in Taiwan.
What do you think about this story? Join the conversation at ALTPpodcast@gmail.com, follow us on Instagram at altppodcast, or leave us a voice message at anchor.fm/altppodcast. Like what you hear? Please follow/share/subscribe/rate/review (whatever that button is telling you to do!)
8 Feb 2021
Spoon River Mythology
In the first of a two-episode series, host Kerry Ose interviews her dad about his memories of his parents' restaurant in London Mills, Illinois. What she learns challenges Kerry's beliefs about her own origin story, and how being White made her and her forebears safe and prosperous. Next week, host Joanna Chen will interview her mom about her own childhood experience in a family restaurant, and how that chapter fits into her life story of emigrating from Taiwan to the United States when she was a child.
What do you think about this story? Join the conversation at ALTPpodcast@gmail.com, follow us on Instagram at altppodcast, or leave us a voice message at anchor.fm/altppodcast. Like what you hear? Please follow/share/subscribe/rate/review (whatever that button is telling you to do!)
1 Feb 2021
GameStop Trade
Like everyone else, the ALTP team has thoughts and feelings about the whole GameStop/Robinhood/r/WallStreetBets kerfuffle. Join hosts Joanna Chen, Alex Sievers and Sharon Lewis as they work through this developing story.
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25 Jan 2021
A Promenade Through Season 1 of Bridgerton
Co-hosts Kerry Ose, Donna Anderson and Alex Sievers break down season 1 of Bridgerton, Netflix's fanciful Regency Era dramedy of manners.
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21 Jan 2021
ALTP: Inauguration Day Special Edition
In this ALTP bonus episode, Kerry and Bri reflect on a fraught two weeks in America, reminisce about inaugurations of yore and revel in all the goodness that Inauguration Day 2021 has been.
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18 Jan 2021
King Day 2021
As members of Generation X, cohosts Kerry Ose and Donna Anderson had a front row seat as the United States debated and decided how to honor Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. This episode explores the origins of King Day, how Dr. King's legacy has been White-washed, and what all Americans can do to ensure that the fight for civil rights, justice and equality continues.
11 Jan 2021
They Are Commodifying Our Shame
This week, cohosts Joanna Chen and Brianne Young dive deep into diet culture, exploring the disillusioning world of social media, the racist and sexist history of the Body Mass Index (BMI), and the false narrative that health is determined by weight or the size and shape of your body. Bri and Joanna open up about their personal struggles with weight loss, eating disorders, and body image, giving listeners a very real glimpse into how societal standards can negatively affect body acceptance. Throughout the episode, Bri and Joanna share advice and tips on how they are changing their relationship with food, combating this false narrative, and learning to accept their bodies for all the wonderful and beautiful things they can do.
Bri’s Suggestions for who to follow on social media:
Instagram: @fitfatandallthat @danamercer @tiffanyima @iamlshauntay @lucymountain
Tik Tok: @hannahtalksbodies @raeannlangas @elainaefird @stephgrassodietitian
Accounts to Follow/Influential Listens from Joanna:
Instagram: @single.mom.nutritionist @i_weigh @alokvmenon @mynameisjessamyn @samaraterese
Listens: Dietitians Unplugged: Trust Your Body; Getting Curious: How Grateful Are We To Live Beyond The Gender Binary?
This conversation was sparked by “The Bizzarre and Racist History of the BMI” by Your Fat Friend, available to read, here: https://bit.ly/2LR6jru
CLARIFICATION: Alok's preferred pronouns are they/them. Joanna makes mistakes which cause harm, and it is important to use preferred pronouns to respect the inherent dignity of a person. "Trans and nonbinary youth who reported that their pronouns were honored by people in their lives attempted suicide at half the rate of those whose pronouns were not respected." If you'd like to learn more, consider starting with this article: https://bit.ly/3dS7ymb
4 Jan 2021
ALTP: News Junkies Edition
Cohosts Brianne Young and Kerry Ose can't get enough of the news - even when it's scary! In this episode, Kerry and Bri break down vaccine skepticism, America's will-they-or-won't-they flirtation with autocracy and why student loan forgiveness can't happen soon enough.
What news stories are haunting your dreams? Join the conversation at ALTPpodcast@gmail.com, or leave us a voice message at anchor.fm/altppodcast. Like what you hear? Please follow/share/subscribe/rate/review (whatever that button is telling you to do!)
28 Dec 2020
All The Feel Goods of 2020
Brunch in the Before Times, Instagram dance parties, courageous conversations and more - that's what made Donna and Kerry feel good in 2020. What made you feel good? Join the conversation at ALTPpodcast@gmail.com, or leave us a voice message at anchor.fm/altppodcast. Like what you hear? Please follow/share/subscribe/rate/review (whatever that button is telling you to do!)
21 Dec 2020
All The Jingle Ladies
This week, Donna Anderson, Sharon Lewis and Kerry Ose embrace the spirit of the season, and dive into Christmas romcoms, featuring Merry Liddle Christmas Wedding, Operation Christmas Drop and Happiest Season. Thoughts? Join the conversation at ALTPpodcast@gmail.com.
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14 Dec 2020
A Millennial Take On Mulan
We promise A Lot To Process is not a Mulan podcast! But we had to share this engaging conversation between cohosts Joanna Chen and Alex Sievers, who explore Asian identity and martial arts in Mulan and ask what the consequences are when everyone in front of the camera is Asian and everyone behind the camera is white.
Episode note from Joanna Chen: Shout out to YouTuber Xiran Jay Zhao for your incredible and thorough content about the cultural nuances of Mulan. I certainly learned a lot, and it’s been A Lot to Process. I hope you, our fellow Processors, continue to listen to different voices by checking out her videos @ https://youtu.be/N3QKq24e0HM (https://youtu.be/N3QKq24e0HM)
7 Dec 2020
Mulan: Queer Feminist Icon or Tool of the Patriarchy?
In this episode, cohosts Kerry Ose and Sharon Lewis explore gender, sexuality, feminism and the patriarchy in the 2020 live action Mulan film as well as the 1998 animated film. Join the conversation at ALTPpodcast@gmail.com.
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