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This is Tri Vo, Cultural Organizer here at SEAD. I am launching a new program through the SEAD Project called Brave Harbors.

You can find a brief description of the program’s intent at ⁠tinyurl.com/beamapmaker⁠⁠.

This podcast conversation will refer to this IG post @theseadproject to guide the podcast host's responses to the question: What's in the SEA Atlas? What do ideas of Southeast Asia and diaspora look like to our podcast hosts, Tri and Charmaine? Is the term "Southeast Asia" useful? Confusing? Biased? What would be useful for Southeast Asian-origin peoples to have for reference, review, and discovery in a SEA Atlas?

This podcast episode is a conversation between two staff members at The SEAD Project: Tri Vo (he/anh) and Charmaine Balisalisa (they/them/siya), who are the Cultural Organizers and Leader Visual Designer, respectively, in addition to being the co-creators of the Brave Harbors project.

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We want to build new tools for SEA-origin peoples that are defined, designed, and made by us. Through a project like Brave Harbors, we want to help SEA-origin peoples become more independent from the systems that trap us more than they free us to build new systems that actually benefit us and communities.

On behalf of The SEAD Project, we want to connect with Hmong, Khmer, Lao, and Viet peoples who deeply care for their communities and want to make change in solidarity, our Mapmakers. A Brave Harbors Mapmaker has their own map of experiences and working knowledge of certain systems.

We’re excited to create more comprehensive maps of stories, histories, and challenges that our people can use to navigate tumultuous seas of systems and -isms—together.

This is how you can start your journey with us as a Mapmaker:

1) Submit! your responses at ⁠tinyurl.com/beamapmaker⁠ to help SEAD better understand what social issues that SEAD's core audiences care about.

2) Converse with me!- by booking a time to talk via ⁠my Calendly scheduler⁠: ⁠tinyurl.com/mapmakerchat⁠. Chat with me about what has impacted you and your communities, which can include many things like ethnicity, education level, private/public/self-employed sector worker, and the list goes on. Email Tri at ⁠tri@theseadproject.org⁠ and/or Charmaine at charmaine@theseadproject.org with all your feelings, curiosities, and questions in relation to Brave Harbors.

Share this podcast and relevant Mapmakers links with other Hmong, Khmer, Lao, and Viet folks you know who would be interested in map-making with us. *Please feel encouraged to submit a response if you identify as Southeast Asian though do not belong to our focus communities of Hmong, Khmer, Lao, and Viet groups. Your input will help The SEAD Project in mapping out our bigger picture work over time.

Thanks for inspiring The SEAD Project to keep growing and being a better resource for community. Together, let's set sail for brave new SEAs.

⁠Click here⁠⁠ to start your Mapmaker journey with us; share ⁠https://tinyurl.com/beamapmaker⁠ with your Southeast Asian-origin peers and kinfolk.

Basic Timestamps / Podcast chapters

(0:00) Music and intros

(3:30) What's in the SEA Atlas?

(7:00) Why identify as "Asian"?

(11:15) Cultural preservation: when does it become important for diaspora children?

(15:49) Gatekeeping and fear as cultural preservation

(25:40) Can SEA be the new Asian?

(29:10) Entitled "peace" and compassionate conflict

(37:10) Portals to connect ideas, SEA Atlas

(42:18) SEA shapeshifts and contexts

(50:08) SEA as tool for... what?

Music: "River in the Jungle" by SnowMusicStudio

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