How exactly did we make a podcast from scratch during quarantine? The FOTV team shares candidly about our grassroots project as we look forward to the holiday season and a continuation of Asian American perspectives. Listen to Kaitlyn, Ava, Jessica, Julia, and Kenna reflect on the motivations, both personal and political, that turned into Fresh Off the Vote. What did we learn about ourselves in making Fresh Off the Vote? What are our coffee preferences, if any? Who are the peop...
29 Oct 2020
Rushing to Judgement
Yup, we’re pissed about Amy Coney Barrett’s confirmation. We ended up with an aggressively conservative Supreme Court with a 6-3 supermajority that doesn't reflect the political makeup of this country and was appointed by a president who lost the popular vote. This is minority rule. But, Supreme Court headlines aside, many of us don’t really understand the court systems leading up to the highest court in the land. According to Ballotpedia, there are a total of 278 state appellate court seats ...
26 Oct 2020
Untangling Undocumented
In this episode of #FOTV, Grace hosts a roundtable with a Race and Ethnic Studies graduate student and two undocumented immigrants. They examine lived experiences to see how race and law work together to erase Asian Americans from the undocumented narrative. Complicating and untangling the notion of "legal immigration", they ask the audience members to find local ways to listen to immigrant stories in their own zip codes and act as co-conspirators - more than allies. Rose Ann E. ...
19 Oct 2020
Rise & Shine, Hot Planet Coming Through!
In the latest VP debate, Pence admitted the climate is changing without addressing the urgency of the climate crisis we are living in. This episode is a Green New Deal 101 featuring candidates working at the state, city, and ground level to bring attention to our politicians on the climate crisis. Michelle Wu (running for Boston mayor), Alex Lee (running for California Assembly District 25), Megan Nguyen (Sunrise Movement Bay Area Hub Leader), and a friend of the podcast, Leslie Chang ...
12 Oct 2020
Asian American Athletes: Beyond The Field and Off The Court
In this episode, #FOTV hosts Emmy and Kenna interview two Asian American athletes on how race and culture come to play in sports. Camryn Hamaguchi is a Japanese-American two-sport athlete in basketball and track & field at Chapman University in California. She is also Head Coach at Ironmen Basketball Club Program and Assistant Girls Varsity Coach at Kennedy High School. Jojo McIntosh is a mixed-race Black and Cambodian-American football player and a University of Washington Huskies alum.&...
5 Oct 2020
"Breaking (Fake) News!"
Have you and your parents ever had an argument about something they read on WeChat? What about WhatsApp? In this episode, Shawna (The Yappie) and #FOTV's Helen dive into these two ethnic media platforms to discuss misinformation and why it’s important to understand it in the context of election integrity. What exactly is “misinformation” and what is being done about it? With our guests from The WeChat Project, we look at a case study of second-generation Asian Americans combating misin...
28 Sept 2020
Caring in a World That Doesn’t Care
We're living through a global pandemic, civil unrest, and threats to our democracy. It's necessary for young people to step up in advocating for a better future. But in doing so, we often don’t realize the stress and anxiety that can take a toll on our bodies. How can you take better care of yourself? Especially when it feels like people may not be understanding? Or that self-care is expensive and inaccessible? In this episode, #FOTV hosts Amy and Kaitlyn speak with two professors about...
21 Sept 2020
Slacking or Acting?
In this episode, #FOTV hosts Jessica and Grace invite an Asian American illustrator Ji Sub Jeong (@geesubay) to chat about the virality of slacktivism. Jessica dives into the design of social justice slideshows on Instagram while Grace dissects the need to perform an identity or virtue signal for capital gain. As both consumers and creators, they discuss the rise of boba liberalism in tandem with Subtle Asian Traits. Ji Sub reveals his feelings about being called a boba liberal more than onc...
18 Sept 2020
Kamala Harris: Minority Roots to Majority Vote, Part 2
We’re back for Part 2 on Kamala Harris! Last time, we sat down with Ohio State Senator Tina Maharath and two college-graduated South Asian women involved in politics to better understand Kamala Harris's Indian-American identity with complexities around caste, power, and anti-blackness. Today, we turn to Morgan Harper, a Black woman in politics and a former grassroots candidate for Congress, to help unpack Kamala’s Black identity. After attending Tufts (BA), Princeton (MA), and Stanford (JD), ...
14 Sept 2020
Kamala Harris: Minority Roots to Majority Vote
Kamala Harris is the new Democratic VP nominee - she’s multiracial as a half Black and half Indian woman! Can we be excited that someone who “looks like us” is up there in the political hierarchy, and perhaps we’re finally seeing the representation we need? Our Indian American friends and families are celebrating. But young people are also left wondering if we can automatically “claim” Kamala just because she has Indian heritage. We hope to better contextualize and understand the nuanc...
31 Aug 2020
Church & State
Religious beliefs have a huge role in how voters decide their stances on candidates and issues. With that in mind, should a church be playing more or less of a role in civic engagement- and what is civic engagement, really? What does that look like in practice within the Asian American church? We sit down with Kathy Khang, a writer, speaker, and activist, to try to lay down some answers and definitions to these questions, and examine how differing understandings of civic engagement-- a...
24 Aug 2020
Bugs in the System and Our Health
In this episode, we break down the public health perspective of COVID as it relates to universities and schools reopening this fall. Public health, as the study of disease prevention and quality of life, includes mental health. We talk about the quality of our mental health after checking-in with both ourselves and our guest, Professor Chan Thai from the Department of Communication at Santa Clara University. Professor Thai's background focuses on human behaviors and public health. She shares ...
21 Aug 2020
Young, Scrappy, and Hungry
Doctors, dinosaurs, and the DNC? Helen asks young delegates Pratyush, Ross, Beth, Anya, Wayne, and Bianca what inspired them to become a delegate, how their families reacted or didn't, plus some takeaway lessons. Pratyush and Ross are admirers of Andrew Yang. Wayne and Beth recall personal stories on their political organizing experiences. They also have a message for the Asian American community - contribute! Vote! Finally, a stegosaurus makes an appearance. Check out our website! https://w...
19 Aug 2020
"Live" From the DNC
Live! From...your computer? August 17-20th marks the first ever online Democratic National Convention. In this episode, our own founder, Helen, who is also serving as an at-large delegate to the DNC, talks with other young AAPI delegates. What is the role of the DNC? How is it different in 2020? Are conventions still even necessary? Check out our website! https://www.freshoffthevote.com Follow us! Instagram: http://instagram.com/freshoffthevote Twitter: https://twitter.com/freshoffthevote ...
17 Aug 2020
Bonus: Affirmative Action Roundtable Chat
We're switching it up! This week, we have some special bonus content for you! On this episode, we brought together a bright group of Asian-American high-school seniors and college underclassmen from various backgrounds to open up about their thoughts on affirmative action. Following the roundtable, our team also does their own debrief between the two episodes. Special thanks to Emmy, Hanh, Kevin, and Sadir for joining us! This chat is a follow-up to Monday's "AAs on AA" episode where we d...
10 Aug 2020
AAs on AA
Affirmative action has been a heavily debated topic since the Civil Rights Act passed in the 1960s. It is an emotional, loaded term for parents that are heavily invested in their kids’ education. The legislative battlegrounds on affirmative action this fall is in California, where voters will decide the outcome of Proposition 16. We dive into affirmative action, the major misconceptions in understanding how it works, and the emotional triggers that come with the topic. We touch on why Chine...
3 Aug 2020
Love of the Land: The Aloha ʻĀina Party
The mainland United States only ever talks about Democrats vs Republicans. Third parties get no love. Pua Ishibashi Jr. is the founding member of the Aloha ʻĀina Party, a third party founded in June 2015. Aloha Aina means "love of the land." With Pua, we discuss the significance of 3rd party emergence in Hawaii. What goes on behind the scenes in the founding of a 3rd party and what are the challenges? We touch upon Hawaii’s history including the continued systemic oppression and generational ...
3 Aug 2020
Election in the AM, Frat Party in the PM
College students don't vote. Whose fault is it? Is it because they're lazy? Or, perhaps, are there barriers preventing from showing up at the poll booths? If so, what are they? We bring on college experts Theresa Kouo, Assistant Director for Civic Engagement Education at the Washington University in St. Louis and Purvi Patel, Director of Civic and Campus Engagement at The University of Chicago to dive into these questions. Alongside personal histories of political engagement, they share wha...
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