Latest Intersectionsofidentity Podcast Episodes
Valentine's Day Special: Swipe Left, Swipe Right
Immigrantly - February 14, 2023 10:00 - 35 minutes ★★★★ - 155 ratingsBetween “ghosting,” “Icks,” and the question of whether or not to swipe right, the dating world isn’t the same as it used to be. Forty-eight percent of adults aged 18 to 29 have used a dating app before, hoping to find that special thing called love — or maybe just something casual. But how do we...
"You Are Valid"
Immigrantly - February 07, 2023 10:00 - 36 minutes ★★★★ - 155 ratingsImmigrantly family, today I’ll be chatting with Mari Uchida. She is a photographer, director, a fiercely creative artist whose work has been seen in the New York Times, Time Out New York, The Lincoln Center of Performing Arts, Broadway World, and other platforms. Her subjects are photographed aga...
All of Us Are Unwell
Immigrantly - January 31, 2023 10:00 - 44 minutes ★★★★ - 155 ratingsToday's guest, Dr. Mimi Khuc, is a writer, teacher, and scholar of things unwell, a pedagogy that examines humans' relationship to the world and themselves as one with differential unwellness because of the structures around them. Mimi is a Professor of Asian American studies and disability studi...
Written In The Stars
Immigrantly - January 24, 2023 10:00 - 32 minutes ★★★★ - 155 ratingsToday's guest is Mangesh Hattikudur. He is a podcaster and co-founder of Kaleidoscope, a podcast production company. He’s also the co-host of the podcast Part-Time Genius, the former senior vice president of iHeartRadio, and the co-founder of the magazine Mental Floss. But it is his more recent p...
The Cost of Living In White Space
Immigrantly - January 17, 2023 10:00 - 46 minutes ★★★★ - 155 ratingsCarmen Rita Wong is a journalist, entrepreneur, and personal finance expert. Once the host of a TV program called On The Money, Carmen has worked with CNN, CBS, and NBC, and she was a financial advice columnist for four different magazines, including Glamour and Good Housekeeping. She is also the...
Mashing up the Conversation on Grief
Immigrantly - January 10, 2023 10:00 - 48 minutes ★★★★ - 155 ratingsToday I’m joined by Amy S Choi and Rebecca Lehrer, co-founders and co-hosts of The Mash-Up American podcast, which features stories and interviews on the things that make us who we are: culture, relationships, and identity. I feel a kindred spirit for these two since Immigrantly bears many simila...
Special Feed Drop: Before Me
Immigrantly - January 03, 2023 10:00 - 27 minutes ★★★★ - 155 ratingsWelcome listeners. As some of you may know, our team is taking a much-needed break to rest and recuperate so that we can come back on January 10th, reinvigorated to share some awesome Immigrantly content with all of you. In the meantime, I am sharing a special episode from “Before me”. It is a fi...
Special: Holiday Hot-Takes
Immigrantly - December 27, 2022 10:00 - 26 minutes ★★★★ - 155 ratingsThere is nothing Immigrantly loves more than switching up the narrative--and that's why today, we're sharing some controversial opinions, or "hot-takes," about the holiday season. Before we begin 2023, I wanted to get together with Yudi and Michaela from the Immigrantly team to talk about everyth...
Expressing Kinship and Self Through Art
Immigrantly - December 20, 2022 10:00 - 30 minutes ★★★★ - 155 ratingsWhat does following your passion look like? How many aspiring actresses, dancers, writers, podcasters and artists have been told that their powers won’t make them any money? How many of them stop chasing their creative dreams altogether? Well, my next guest did the very thing that many people wou...
Tap Dancing As A Way to Communicate
Immigrantly - December 13, 2022 10:00 - 40 minutes ★★★★ - 155 ratingsMy today's guest is Gerson Lanza. Born and raised in Honduras, Gerson is a tap dancer and an educator. He is pursuing his Master of Fine Arts in Dance at the University of Maryland. And earlier this year, he finished the coveted Strathmore Artist in Residence Program as part of the Class of 2022....
Hip Hop Into Your Raw Self
Immigrantly - December 06, 2022 10:00 - 43 minutes ★★★★ - 155 ratingsMusic has been an integral part of my life; from classical and popular music to rock, you will find an entire gamut on my Spotify playlist. Whenever I feel sad or happy, worried or excited, I put on my favorite track to either calm myself down or lift myself. I don’t know about you, but music has...
Reporting the Human in All of Us
Immigrantly - November 29, 2022 10:00 - 55 minutes ★★★★ - 155 ratingsHow do we harness the power of authentic storytelling to recreate narratives about immigrants? I sat down with Liz Robbins, the director of journalism partnerships at "Define American," to discuss this and other pertinent questions. We also talked about a recent report she co-authored with Sarah ...
Thanksgiving Special: The Not So Sweet History of Candied Yams
Immigrantly - November 22, 2022 10:00 - 10 minutes ★★★★ - 155 ratingsBefore turning off your phone for a Thanksgiving digital detox or because the turkey requires your undivided intention, spend a moment with the Immigrantly team and me. Today's episode is on the history of yams and their genetically unrelated, culturally conflated counterpart — sweet potatoes. I'...
What is Sexuality Anyways?
Immigrantly - November 15, 2022 09:00 - 40 minutes ★★★★ - 155 ratingsWhy is it that we stumble when we discuss sexuality? It should be a joyous topic rather than one fraught with shame, confusion, and invisibility. Even as we get more shows and movies attempting to tackle stigmas around sexuality and identity, non-white and immigrant communities are often left ou...
Election Special: Want to be an ally? Vote!
Immigrantly - November 08, 2022 09:00 - 13 minutes ★★★★ - 155 ratingsToday's episode addresses why voting is not just a right that individuals should exercise; it is also a democratic measure of collective accountability. I sit down with…myself and confront my fears and hopes this election season. While progress is never consistent nor linear, this episode examine...
Living Unapologetically Intersectional (2021)
Immigrantly - November 01, 2022 09:00 - 42 minutes ★★★★ - 155 ratingsHey Immigrantly family! As we are working hard to get you some excellent content in the coming days, I also recognize we have some new listeners. Therefore, I thought, why not share something incredible from the Immigrantly vault? And I couldn’t think of a better episode than my interview with Ma...
"It Begins with a Line"
Immigrantly - October 25, 2022 09:00 - 37 minutes ★★★★ - 155 ratingsRuby Jaffrey is a talented, contemporary calligraphy artist who has exhibited her artwork worldwide, including in London, LA, New York, and Karachi. Like many of us who rely on art for expression and play, Ruby describes hers as celebrations of color, spirituality, faith, and stylistic zeitgeist....
Are Humans and Nature Separate?
Immigrantly - October 18, 2022 09:00 - 36 minutes ★★★★ - 155 ratingsOur guest, Vanessa Chavarriaga Posada, is a Colombian-American athlete, activist, and environmental sociologist who is always on the move. From the freezing valleys of Alaska to the cloud forests of Colombia, Vanessa spends her days' hiking, skiing, mountaineering, running, and ice skating throug...
Loving Through Boundaries
Immigrantly - October 11, 2022 11:54 - 40 minutes ★★★★ - 155 ratingsOur guest is Israa Nasir, a psychotherapist, and mental health educator. She is the founder of Well. Guide, a digital mental wellness brand on Instagram. Situated at the cross-section of technology and mental healthcare, Israa specializes in applying her knowledge of working with intersectional i...
Lipstick, Runways, and Microaggressions
Immigrantly - October 04, 2022 09:00 - 30 minutes ★★★★ - 155 ratingsOur guest today is an expert on self-expression-Taiwanese-born Romana Lai, a renowned editorial makeup artist who has worked with many of the fashion industry’s leading names and publications, including Vogue and Harper’s Bazaar. In addition, she has worked on shows for New York Fashion Week, Fre...
"She is Being Very Asian"
Immigrantly - September 27, 2022 09:00 - 43 minutes ★★★★ - 155 ratingsToday's guest Michelle Li is a broadcaster, founder of the "Very Asian Movement" & Foundation and author of the upcoming book ‘A Very Asian Guide to Korean Food’. The "Very Asian movement" initially started as a hashtag in which other members of the Asian diaspora share solidarity with Michelle...
How Privilege Changes the Lens I Wear
Immigrantly - September 20, 2022 09:00 - 43 minutes ★★★★ - 155 ratingsOur Today's guest is Mathangi Subramanian. She is an award-winning writer of adult, young adult, and children's stories. But, just as she runs the gambit in authorship, she is also a former policy analyst and public school teacher. Her book "Dear Mrs. Naidu," which won the South Asia Book Award, ...
"Oh You Came On A Boat?"
Immigrantly - September 13, 2022 09:00 - 27 minutes ★★★★ - 155 ratingsToday's episode is in collaboration with the Oyate Group, a community-driven foundation dedicated to empowering youth and small businesses across New York City with career support and critical resources. One of their initiatives is the "Beyond Rising" internship program in partnership with the "C...
What Do Books Really Teach Us?
Immigrantly - September 06, 2022 09:00 - 41 minutes ★★★★ - 155 ratingsOur guest, Elaine Castillo, is the author of the newly released book "How to Read Now: Essays," which attempts to observe American books and movies through a BIPOC lens. Elaine takes a close look at TV shows like "The Watchmen" and writings from Joan Didion to explore the politics of reading and ...
Human Rights be Damned-Part Two
Immigrantly - August 30, 2022 09:00 - 34 minutes ★★★★ - 155 ratingsToday's episode is the second part of our two-part series. If you are tuning in now, please be sure to listen to the first part of this series titled "Human Rights be Damned-Part One." In the episode, I had a stimulating and insightful conversation with our guest, Rana Ayyub, the widely known Was...
Human Rights be Damned-Part One
Immigrantly - August 23, 2022 09:00 - 39 minutes ★★★★ - 155 ratingsWelcome to Immigrantly's fall guest lineup. In part one of a two-episode series, my Rana Ayyub, an Indian journalist and opinion columnist with The Washington Post, joins me to discuss the inherent paradox in geopolitics, prioritizing strategic allyship over human rights. As a child, Rana witnes...
Special: Define the United States in a Word or a Phrase
Immigrantly - August 16, 2022 09:00 - 4 minutes ★★★★ - 155 ratingsDear Immigrantly family, as you know, we are not releasing any new episodes this week; our fall lineup starts next week, August 23rd, with our conversation with Rana Ayyub. Nevertheless, I have exciting and fun audio to share today. In April this year, one of our previous guests and patrons, Paul...
My Parents, TikTok & I
Immigrantly - August 09, 2022 09:00 - 51 minutes ★★★★ - 155 ratingsToday's guest, Thea Pham, shares her journey in discovering and defining what mental health means to her, how it fits in the complicated puzzle of her upbringing, and why she has felt immense emotional and psychological strains being the first generation. As an accomplished biotech entrepreneur, ...
Before They Were Your Parents
Immigrantly - August 02, 2022 09:00 - 40 minutes ★★★★ - 155 ratingsFor Neda Toloui-Semnani, our today's guest, understanding who her parents were and what motivated them to participate in the 1979 Iranian Revolution as young Iranian activists became a crucial step to making sense of her own present. Born to a nation marked by political upheaval and now a Brookly...
Once Upon An Abubakr in Hollywood (2021)
Immigrantly - July 26, 2022 09:00 - 39 minutes ★★★★ - 155 ratingsToday I am sharing another gem from the Immigrantly vault. It’s our conversation with Abubakr Ali. He is an actor, writer, and singer. Last year, he landed a significant role in the upcoming Netflix series Grendel as the anti-hero, Hunter Rose. This opportunity is historic because Abubakr is the ...
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