Podcasts About API Contributions to Artistic Diversity
This list of podcasts was curated by: Imogen Arate, the host and executive producer of the Poets and Muses podcast.
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In honor of Asian and Pacific Islander (API) Heritage Month, Imogen Arate brings us this mid-week podcast recommendation list about API contributions to diversity in the arts. During reflections about actions that we can all take to ensure that our future follows a positive trajectory, Imogen was inspired by her love of art and open and inclusive communication. Her list builds on these two themes.
Imogen writes: Personally, it's not only about providing a platform for diverse contemporary artistic voices to shine, but also offering the opportunity for people from different communities to listen to each other's stories. As an Asian-American artist and arts advocate, since May is Asian and Pacific-Islander History Month, this list is about the ways that API podcasters are contributing to Diversity in the Arts.
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Podcast: Poets and Muses
Episode: Imogen Arate with Amber McCrary
Description: This podcast, started by Imogen Arate at the end of 2018, has featured 149 poets from 18 countries and reached listeners in at least 100 countries. In this episode, Imogen interviews Amber McCrary about her poem, "TC coincidence? I think not!" After this episode aired, Amber, a Diné (Navajo) poet who hails from northern Arizona, went on to launch Abalone Mountain Press, with its own podcast that features creatives from diverse Indigenous nations.
Podcast: Just Because: The Hu(e)man Experience Podcast
Episode: Top Movies of 2021
Description: Host Michael Lobo has unbound conversations about the human experience with people from diverse backgrounds. The show includes a number of film- and TV-show-review episodes. In particular, this episode offers a great example of how people from varied walks of life react to and rank films released in 2021.
Podcast: Modern Minorities
Episode: Shalini Govil-Pai’s (breaking) stereotypes
Description: Since EarBuds curator Imogen Arate is a huge fan of those who can extrapolate from personal experiences or pain points to design solutions that apply to the larger public, this Modern Minorities episode with Shalini Govil Pai really resonated with her. Shalini talks with hosts Sharon Lee Thony and Raman Sehgal about the ways in which her experience at university, where she found commonalities with those who at first looked at her through the lens of gender stereotypes, influenced her work in the film industry.
Podcast: Hamburger Generation
Episode: Refugees in Cambodia
Description: Hamburger Generation is an often-hilarious storytelling podcast, where hosts Jamil Adas and Isra Abu Zayed chat with their guests about memorable, and sometimes life-changing, experiences. In this episode, they speak with a couple of friends about the ways in which an accidental meeting with a determined and resilient Syrian refugee family changed their outlook on living and working in Cambodia.
Podcast: LIONS SHARE
Episode: Asian Frontwomen in Rock
Description: The LIONS SHARE podcast highlights those of Asian descent who work in the music industry. In this episode, Zeena Koda, music mogul and co-founder of Asian-American Collective, discusses with host Allyson Toy frontwomen who shatter the meek and quiet Asian-women stereotypes.
Thank you to Imogen for curating this mid-week list for us at EarBuds Podcast Collective.
If any listeners should find anything they find personally objectionable in the podcasts listed above, Imogen suggests that they initiate a constructive dialogue with the respective podcast hosts to help them (herself included) improve their future output.
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