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Remittances, A Homeland Connection
Exit Spring Mountain - November 16, 2022 16:40 - 17 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsFor the Season 2 Finale of Exit Spring Mountain, we’re talking about the care packages we send and receive to offer help and hope to our families and friends abroad. Balikbayan boxes are also a topic of conversation, as they have helped float the Phillippine country for decades. Many Asian Ameri...
Mixed race Asians: Surviving and Thriving
Exit Spring Mountain - October 19, 2022 15:35 - 18 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsIn this episode, we’re talking about the complexities of being mixed, sometimes known as Hapa, Blasian, Wasian, or multiracial. Who decides who’s Asian enough… or not? How does categorizing people by race impact mixed race Asian identity and community? Elle Jules, the professional model from H...
Chefs Dish Authenticity
Exit Spring Mountain - September 28, 2022 07:00 - 23 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsIn this episode, we’re talking with chefs - the ones who feed us - fulfilling our basic needs - and ALSO passing down our cultural legacies. From a Las Vegas Filipina start-up to the old school icons - How do these professional chefs and restaurateurs feel about food culture authenticity? Where’...
AAPI Women: Sex and Power
Exit Spring Mountain - September 07, 2022 07:00 - 20 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsHow do these stereotypes harm Asian American and Asian women? Can they lead to violence? Simultaneously - in what ways are some AAPI women taking control of their own sexual narratives? And how can we support the vulnerable, change the conversation, and move forward? A content warning for liste...
Eastern Medicine vs. Western Medicine
Exit Spring Mountain - August 17, 2022 18:10 - 20 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsIn this episode, we’re discussing “Traditional Chinese Medicine,” sometimes called “Oriental Medicine” - also known as Eastern Medicine or Alternative Medicine. But what does it really mean - how did these terms come about? What makes Eastern Medicine any different from Western Medicine - if any...
Tapping into the AAPI Voting Bloc Power
Exit Spring Mountain - July 27, 2022 07:00 - 18 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsWe've all heard the term AAPI Voting Bloc — but how is the Asian American and Pacific Islander community actually tapping into this growing political power? A long-time public servant, Karl Catarata tells us his journey on how he ran for Nevada System of Higher Education Board of Regents Distr...
The Potluck: Food and AAPI Identity
Exit Spring Mountain - March 08, 2022 20:54 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsEpisode 10 marks the end of season 1, so we decided to mark the event with a special episode: The Exit Spring Mountain team gathered (virtually) for a potluck of food and conversation. We each brought a dish to showcase stories and flavors that are meaningful to us, opening the door for deeper c...
Navigating LGBTQ+ and AAPI in Nevada
Exit Spring Mountain - February 22, 2022 00:22 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsNavigating the experience of being both AAPI and LGBTQ+ can be a fraught experience—but when you've found your community, it can be a joyful one, too. Miss Nevada 2021, Kataluna Enriquez, was the first openly trans winner of the Miss Nevada pageant, tells her story about discovering herself and ...
Chinatown, Las Vegas
Exit Spring Mountain - February 09, 2022 05:52 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsLas Vegas's Chinatown is a bustling three-mile stretch along Spring Mountain Road that's become a destination for foodies and travelers in-the-know. A long-time favorite of hospitality industry workers getting off their shifts, it's home to bakeries, bars, karaoke, and restaurants from around th...
Count us in: The promise and perils of the U.S. Census in Nevada
Exit Spring Mountain - January 19, 2022 01:54 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsThe U.S. Constitution mandates a Census every 10 years—it's how we allocate seats in the House of Representatives (Nevada gained a fourth seat in 2010 after the Census showed our relative population increase) and how we determine federal funding for housing, education, and health. For each Nevad...
A year and counting of COVID in Las Vegas: The violence
Exit Spring Mountain - December 31, 2021 21:48 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsThis is the third in a three-part series about the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on Southern Nevada's AAPI communities. In this episode, we look at how Asian Americans in Southern Nevada are responding to the surge of anti-Asian violence in the wake of the pandemic. We visit a self-defense cl...
Leaves on a stream: An English-Tagalog mindfulness meditation exercise
Exit Spring Mountain - December 22, 2021 08:23 - 7 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsThis bonus episode accompanies episode 5: A year and counting of COVID in Las Vegas: The overworked. In that episode, Dr. Andrew Reyes, a professor of nursing at UNLV, tells us about the mindfulness exercises he is creating for healthcare workers—we developed one of the exercises he sent us into...
A year and counting of COVID in Las Vegas: The overworked
Exit Spring Mountain - December 22, 2021 07:39 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsThis episode is the second in a three-part series about the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on Southern Nevada's AAPI communities. Earlier this year, a startling statistic came to light: While Filipino nurses make up just 4% of nurses nationwide, they accounted for 33% of nurse deaths during th...
A year and counting of COVID in Las Vegas: The unemployed
Exit Spring Mountain - November 30, 2021 05:43 - 24 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsThis episode is the first in a three-part series about the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on Southern Nevada's AAPI communities. Nevada was hit harder by the pandemic shutdowns than any other state—and the numbers continue to bear that out. As of this fall, Nevada still has the highest unemplo...
Home Means Nevada? The First Asians in the Silver State
Exit Spring Mountain - November 16, 2021 03:55 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratings"Go home." "Go back to your country." "You don't belong here." These are phrases that many Nevadans of Asian descent have heard—it's rooted in a view of Asians as perpetual foreigners in this country, no matter how long they've lived here. As UNLV Professor Emeritus Sue Fawn Chung tells us, this...
Voyagers: Pacific Islanders in Southern Nevada
Exit Spring Mountain - November 02, 2021 04:39 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsAccording to the most recent Census data, the population of Pacific Islanders in the U.S. has risen nearly 30% in the last decade—in Nevada, it's risen by 60%. Las Vegas, famously, has the largest population of Hawaiians outside of Hawai'i, earning our city the nickname "the Ninth Island." But ...
The Languages We Speak (Or: How to Attack the Monolith)
Exit Spring Mountain - October 18, 2021 23:18 - 21 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsIn Nevada's most recent legislative session, Assembly Bill 359 was passed with little fanfare: It requires businesses to provide translated documents for certain consumer financial services transactions, including credit card issuance and auto title loans. For some individuals in AAPI communitie...
Exit Spring Mountain Trailer
Exit Spring Mountain - October 15, 2021 01:28 - 1 minute ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsJoin us every other week as we look at the impact of history, politics, and the economy of members of AAPI communities. Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders (AAPI) are the fastest-growing ethnic or racial group in Clark County—but despite the Census data grouping, it's not one homogenous group...
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