Latest Aapi Podcast Episodes
A Conversation with Award-Winning Illustrator and Comic Artist Christie Shinn
Asian American History 101 - April 29, 2024 07:30 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 78 ratingsWelcome to Season 4, Episode 18! Free Comic Book Day is coming soon… not to mention Asian American Native Hawaiian Pacific Islander Heritage Month, so as a lead-up to this confluence, we had a conversation with the Ringo Award-winning illustrator and comic artist, Christie Shinn of HoraTora Stu...
“Crazy ideas go far.” Plus, State Rep Jimmy Anderson
365 Amplified - April 26, 2024 05:00 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 16 ratingsThis week, more community leaders are calling for Alder Charles Myadze to resign from the Madison Common Council, Black Student Unions from across Dane County came together last week, Centro Hispano is opening its new building, and Rob went to Appleton to catch the eighth annual Fox Connect st...
The History of the Hawaiian Settlement of Iosepa Utah
Asian American History 101 - April 22, 2024 07:30 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 78 ratingsWelcome to Season 4, Episode 17! This is the next installment in our series on ethnic enclaves that have disappeared. Today we’re here to talk about The History of the Hawaiian Settlement of Iosepa, Utah. It was predominantly Hawaiian, but there were others from the Pacific Islands as well. Est...
The History of the Buddhist Churches of America
Asian American History 101 - April 21, 2024 23:42 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 78 ratingsEditors Note: We had an audio glitch in the original upload and have fixed it. Welcome to Season 4, Episode 16! This episode is about The History of the Buddhist Churches of America. Buddhism is one of the religions often associated with Asian countries and the people who come from Asian Pac...
What’s next for the Madison Common Council? Plus, Assembly Candidate Yee Leng Xiong
365 Amplified - April 19, 2024 12:37 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 16 ratingsThe Madison Common Council met Tuesday for the first time since we reported allegations of domestic abuse against one of its members – allegations he has repeatedly denied. This week, we have a recap of that meeting, which included some contentious discussion of a resolution of support for sur...
SXSW 2024 - A House Is Not A Disco and Dickweed
Bitch Talk Podcast - April 17, 2024 13:00 - 22 minutes ★★★★★ - 40 ratingsThis episode explores two SXSW Film Festival documentaries that are very dick-heavy (literally and figuratively). A House Is Not A Disco captures a year in the life of the world's most iconic homo-normative community: Fire Island Pines. Director Brian J. Smith and producer Jeremy Truong share t...
Does sin cause homelessness? Plus, the Black Brilliance Gala
365 Amplified - April 12, 2024 05:00 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 16 ratingsOn today’s edition, we round up a few stories from the week: the state files a lawsuit against an employer accused of firing employees when they organized; a Madisonian is a finalist for a Hugo Award; and a County Board supervisor says “sin is the root cause” of homelessness. Then, we visit th...
SXSW 2024 - Songs From The Hole and The In Between
Bitch Talk Podcast - April 11, 2024 20:00 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 40 ratingsIn this episode we discuss two beautiful SXSW Film Festival documentaries about processing loss and grief. Songs From The Hole is a documentary/visual album that follows JJ'88, a prisoner struggling with being both a perpetrator and victim of violence, through hip-hop and soul. We are joined by...
Zarrar Khan is Shining A Fresh Light on Pakistan
Tuckered Out with Ami Thakkar - April 10, 2024 07:19 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 25 ratingsZarrar Khan is an award-winning Pakistani-Canadian filmmaker. Born in Karachi and currently based out of Toronto, Zahra’s works have been screened and awarded in over 100 festivals, including TIFF, Bocarno, and BFI London. In Flames, his genre-bending feature directorial debut, premiered at th...
SXSW 2024 - The World According To Allee Willis and Any Other Way: The Jackie Shane Story
Bitch Talk Podcast - April 10, 2024 01:00 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 40 ratingsThis episode brings you two SXSW Film Festival documentaries that will introduce you to two amazing women that should already be household names. The World According to Allee Willis shares the story of one of the most successful singer/songwriter/artists of our time, Allee Willis, from her stri...
A Conversation with Send Chinatown Love PR and Partnerships Lead Kelisha Menon
Asian American History 101 - April 08, 2024 07:30 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 78 ratingsWelcome to Season 4, Episode 15! Today’s guest is Kelisha Menon, the Public Relations and Partnerships Lead at Send Chinatown Love, the incredible organization that formed during the height of the pandemic when New York’s Chinatown businesses and the people who lived there were suffering the mo...
UW’s Multicultural Student Center celebrates 35 years
365 Amplified - April 05, 2024 13:48 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 16 ratingsUniversity of Wisconsin Multicultural Student Center director Claudia Guzman joins the show to help us celebrate the 35th anniversary of the MSC’s beginning within the Wisconsin Union. She also has an announcement – the Wisconsin Union and MSC teamed up to create a special limited edition Mini...
Anu Seghal and Priya Krishna Discuss Culture and Cooking
Tuckered Out with Ami Thakkar - April 04, 2024 10:00 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 25 ratingsAnu Seghal is a children's author and the founder of The Culture Tree, a cultural literacy and language education company that celebrates South Asian culture. Priya Krishna is a food reporter and video host for the New York Times and the best-selling author of multiple cookbooks, including India...
SXSW 2024 - She Looks Like Me and Bob Trevino Likes It
Bitch Talk Podcast - April 03, 2024 23:00 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 40 ratingsToday we're bringing you two SXSW films (a documentary and a narrative) that deal with the search for family. She Looks Like Me is a documentary about a baby born without legs who was abandoned by her parents, and finds out that the gymnast she idolized, Dominique Moceanu, is her long lost sist...
SXSW 2024 - An Army of Women and Roleplay
Bitch Talk Podcast - April 03, 2024 04:00 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 40 ratingsWe're bringing you two documentaries from the SXSW Film Festival that tell stories of sexual assault, a broken justice system, and women finding their voice. An Army of Women follows a group of women in Austin, TX, who join forces to challenge the broken system that allowed their rapists to wal...
A Conversation with Actor Chen Tang
Asian American History 101 - April 01, 2024 07:30 - 53 minutes ★★★★★ - 78 ratingsWelcome to Season 4, Episode 14! Today’s special guest is the talented and engaging actor Chen Tang. Born in Japan and raised in Guangxi, China as well as Memphis, Tennessee, Chen is best known for playing Hong in Warrior and Yao in the live action Mulan. Much like the character of Hong, Chen i...
Meet Donald Dantzler
365 Amplified - March 29, 2024 22:42 - 16 minutes ★★★★★ - 16 ratingsIt’s Spring Break, so we have an abbreviated episode this week. Fitchburg Common Council candidate Donald Dantzler joins us to talk about his vision for one of the area’s fastest-growing cities. He’s also on the Police & Fire Commission and chairs the Madison College board of trustees, so we a...
SXSW 2024 - We Strangers and Birdeater
Bitch Talk Podcast - March 29, 2024 08:00 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 40 ratingsOur SXSW Film Festival coverage is in full swing with two narrative films that deal with lies and finding out the truth. We Strangers follows a commercial cleaner as she tells a lie (that she can speak to the dead) that spirals out of control. We chat with director/writer Anu Valia about how sh...
Basic Bitching - Reinstate Renel, SXSW, Frankie Quinones, & Romantica
Bitch Talk Podcast - March 27, 2024 07:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 40 ratingsY'all, it's been way too long since our last official Basic Bitch. Needless to say, we have a lot of catching up to do! We give you our awards season highlights, an awkward story about Ange's trip to Zihuatanejo, Mexico, fundraising for Planned Parenthood Mar Monte, Erin's transformative exper...
Freaknik: The Wildest Party Never Told with Executive Producers Jermaine Dupri and Uncle Luke, Director P. Frank Williams and Showrunner Geraldine Porras
Bitch Talk Podcast - March 25, 2024 19:00 - 22 minutes ★★★★★ - 40 ratingsWe're kicking off our SXSW 2024 coverage with a serious bang! Freaknik: The Wildest Party Never Told (streaming now on Hulu) is a documentary about the epic Atlanta street party (aka the "Black Woodstock") that took place in the 80s and 90s, and put Atlanta on the map as the epicenter of Black c...
A Conversation with Educator, Speaker, and Author Dr. Sarah-SoonLing Blackburn
Asian American History 101 - March 25, 2024 07:30 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 78 ratingsWelcome to Season 4, Episode 13! Today’s guest is Dr. Sarah-SoonLing Blackburn, an author, educator, speaker, and professional learning facilitator. Born in Bangkok, Thailand into a mixed-race Malaysian Chinese and white American family, she’s a classic “third culture kid.” She’s had a very div...
What is Ramadan? Plus, a Sun Prairie update
365 Amplified - March 22, 2024 12:05 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 16 ratingsThe gang’s all here! It’s just the 365 team this week talking through some important stories from the week. First, it’s Ramadan, and our own Omar Waheed put together a list of Muslim-owned businesses you can support during the holy month. He also educates us a bit about what Ramadan is and ...
Rochelle Pinto Is Taking Vogue India Into A New Era
Tuckered Out with Ami Thakkar - March 21, 2024 10:00 - 51 minutes ★★★★★ - 25 ratingsRochelle Pinto is the head of editorial content for Vogue India. She has had quite a career and is exactly how you think a Vogue head would be-poised, intelligent, well-spoken, beautiful, and as a bonus, she’s totally down to earth. In case you were also wondering if she does gets to work with...
Float Director Sherren Lee
Bitch Talk Podcast - March 21, 2024 03:00 - 17 minutes ★★★★★ - 40 ratingsIn the fictional film Float (streaming now on Amazon Prime!), a young woman unexpectedly falls in love with the small-town lifeguard who rescued her from drowning. Director Sherren Lee joins us via zoom to share how she adapted the story from a book by Kate Marchant and was able to make it her o...
Basic Bitch - Behind the Scenes at Sundance/Slamdance 2024
Bitch Talk Podcast - March 20, 2024 04:00 - 20 minutes ★★★★★ - 40 ratingsRecorded on our last day in Park City, Utah, we recap the Sundance and Slamdance Film festivals with our co-co-host and honorary bitch, John Wildman. We get into some R rated moments, behind the scenes etiquette (or lack thereof) at red carpets, talking Hall & Oates and Huey Lewis with the CEO o...
S5E4: The Power of Storytelling with Kristine Gerolaga (Sundance Labs Alum, Writer, Filmmaker)
Kiss My Mike - March 19, 2024 13:00 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsCheck out this new podcast episode featuring Writer/Filmmaker: KRISTINE GEROLAGA! Kristine Gerolaga is a Filipina American filmmaker and actor. Her work has been featured on ATTN:, Amazon Fire TV, ALTER, Shudder, Fangoria, Rappler, and Vulture. Her short films were finalists for the TIFFxInsta...
Another Conversation with Award-winning Author and Illustrator Grace Lin
Asian American History 101 - March 18, 2024 07:30 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 78 ratingsWelcome to Season 4, Episode 12! It’s Another Conversation with Award-Winning Author and Illustrator Grace Lin. It’s not hyperbole to say that Grace Lin is one of our favorite authors of all time… maybe that’s why we love any opportunity to talk with her, and it’s a great time for her return. W...
Sundance 2024 - Frida and And So It Begins
Bitch Talk Podcast - March 15, 2024 07:00 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 40 ratingsThis is our final Sundance Film Festival episode and we're ending it with two documentaries about and made by some badass women! Frida (now available on prime video!) is a deep dive into the iconic artist Frida Kahlo, told through her own words from diaries, essays, letters, and interviews. Dir...
Curriculum controversy in Sun Prairie, and the larger issue
365 Amplified - March 15, 2024 05:00 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 16 ratingsEarlier this week the Sun Prairie school board voted to approve the purchase of new language arts curriculum that some parents and community members felt is, at best, not culturally competent, especially in its depictions of Native American culture. Today, the team – including Rodlyn-mae Banti...
Michael Maliakel and Sonya Balsara: Breaking Barriers on Broadway
Tuckered Out with Ami Thakkar - March 14, 2024 10:00 - 54 minutes ★★★★★ - 25 ratingsWe're going to Broadway! Today, I am talking with the two South Asian leads in a very beloved Broadway show: Michael Maliakel and Sonya Balsara, who play Aladdin and Jasmine in Disney's Aladdin on Broadway. Michael made his Broadway debut with Aladdin in September 2021. He has had theater exp...
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