A podcast that breaks down the model minority myth and showcases stories from the Asian, Middle Eastern, and African immigrants and first generation American communities.
Victoria Li grew up in Flushing, Queens in NYC, where her parents owned a Chinese takeout restaurant. On this episode of immigrant tales, she recounts the hardships her parents went through in order to give her and her sister a better life.
You can follow Victoria at @midsizeasianqueen on Instagram, and check out her pageantry work at @misschinesechicago on Instagram as well. Be sure to also follow MM:UA on Insta @minority_model.
Shukriya for listening, and until next time.
- Nidhi
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20 Mar 2024
Punam Saxena | The U.S. South - Immigrant Tales #6
*CONTENT WARNING: This episode contains recounts of traumatic post-segregation-era racism inflicted on people of color including the storyteller and those in her community.*
Punam Saxena talks about the parallels between religious intolerance in America that she’s experienced, and the religious intolerance plaguing India at the moment. She also shares stories from her childhood in Alabama and Georgia and what it was like for her and other people of color and religious minorities in post-segregation America.
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19 Oct 2023
On Losing Our Tongues
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In January, I sent out a request (https://spotifyanchor-web.app.link/e/oACoJByrOBb) asking listeners to send in clips about what language means to them - regardless of if they can speak their native tongues or not.
And YOU all delivered!
In On Losing Our Tongues, we're hearing diaspora folks from over a dozen unique ethnicities in Asia, Africa and the Middle East share what if feels like to struggle to speak their native language, or to be unable to speak it altogether.
Some themes in this episode include:
How monolingual people in the diaspora relate to the English language
Being bilingual in English & Spanish but being unable to speak your native tongue
Having to use Google Translate to communicate between generations of family
How immigrants process trauma and share family histories in the face of language barriers
The science behind language erosion and the impact of that on a person's relation to their culture
The story of Bangladesh: the first country to fight a liberation war around language
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A very special thank you to everyone who sent in clips or interviewed with me for this episode:
Abhinav Das, Shukri Ideis, Sophia Fel, Victoria Li, Annie Tan, Tommy Souravong, Farzana Haque, Marzia Chowdhury, Samantha Reyes, Stephanie Botchway, and Zamzam Dini
This is an episode made possible from viewers (*eh hem* I mean listeners like you ;), so please give this a share to help support my storytelling.
Shukriya, thank you!
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Listen/read my 4-min story on NPR/WBEZ: How a Queer Therapist is bringing bilingual (Mandarin Chinese to English) Mental Health Resources to people of color in Chicago (https://chicago2023.nextgenradio.org/chicago-therapist-lola-wang-create-home-lgbtq-communities-color/)!
It aired on National Public Radio (NPR) and Chicago Public Media (WBEZ 91.5FM), and is part of a series on what home means to our communities!
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Image credits: Dall-E
Music & Sound credits: CC Creative Commons & freesound (all artists are listed on our website!)
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