Dear World

In our sixth episode, join Balpreet (she/they) and guest co-host, Rebecca Nelson (she/her) as they chat with Gisela McDaniel (she/her) about art, healing, and solidarity for survivors of violence. Gisela is a diasporic indigenous Chamorro artist based in Detroit. Her work is based on healing from her own sexual trauma and reflecting the healing of women and non-binary people who have survived sexual trauma. She intentionally incorporates survivors’ voices in order to subvert traditional power relations and to enable both individual and collective healing. Transcription of this episode is found here: bit.ly/dearworld_transcripts

In our fifth episode, join Tessa and guest co-host Reiya Bhat as they chat with Eunice Uhm (she/her) about the impact and complexities of the American immigration system on family histories and experiences. Eunice is a PhD candidate in History of Art at Ohio State University studying the conditions of migration and the diasporic aesthetic subjectivities in the works of contemporary Japanese and South Korean art from the 1960s to the present. Transcription of this episode is found here: bit.ly/dearworld_transcripts 

Join Balpreet and our guest co-host, Zoë, as they chat with Aalap Bommaraju (they/them), who is a transfemme/non-binary, queer, Indian American immigrant who takes their pills and wonders why they gender their cat, about beauty standards and how they impact the world. For a transcription of this episode, please visit: http://bit.ly/dearworld_transcripts. 

In our third episode, join Balpreet and Tessa as they chat with Charlie Stewart (they/them) a Black, indigenous, and queer radical organizer living in Central Ohio about the challenges and opportunities of building transformational solidarity between the AAPI and Black communities in the US. Transcript for this episode are available here: http://bit.ly/dearworld_transcripts

In this episode, join Tessa and Balpreet as they talk with Kathy Nguyen, a Vietnamese American child of immigrants, social justice leader and educator about how their relationships with their racial identities have been impacted by growing up in a racist, capitalist society and how they've had to grow and evolve into the fullness of their beings. Transcript for this episode is available here: http://bit.ly/dearworld_transcripts

Listen in as Tessa and Balpreet chat with Shereen Naser, a Palestinian American school psychologist and researcher, about what 2020, the year of pandemics, uprisings and upheaval, meant for our communities. Transcript for this episode is available here: http://bit.ly/dearworld_transcripts