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Adrienne and Claire catch up about their birthdays, career updates, brief reflections on everything that's happened since their birthday recording in 2021, corporate responsibility, East Asian politics, and people judging an entire culture. Note: All political and social comments said in this episode are opinions based on our lived experiences, exposure, conversations, and research. If in doubt you should always double check what you hear by doing your research. Media references: White Hot: The Rise & Fall of Abercrombie & Fitch Angry Asian Man and Angry Taiwan Man The current Korean president referred to was Moon Jae-in. Pachinko Love is Blind Japan thredUP (USA) and Vinted (UK and Europe) Listen and enjoy! To receive the latest content, subscribe on wherever you listen to podcasts and follow us on Twitter and Instagram at @_introspectives. Check out our website for articles and more: www.introspectives.uk. Artwork by Adrienne. FYI swears in this episode are not bleeped. FYI swears in this episode are not bleeped.

Adrienne, Claire, Enja, and Hazel talk about the book Afropean: Notes from Black Europe by Johnny Pitts and film Passing directed by Rebecca Hall. They reflect on why it's difficult to read and/or watch 'heavy' narratives, the emotional anxiety that comes with watching these types of content, and more. During the discussion on Passing, the book Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett is referenced as it was in a previous media club. Listen and enjoy! To receive the latest content, subscribe on wherever you listen to podcasts and follow us on Twitter and Instagram at @_introspectives. Check out our website for articles and more: www.introspectives.uk Artwork by Sabrina. FYI swear words are not bleeped in this episode. Apologies for the poor audio quality in this episode. 

Claire and Sabrina talk to Dr Maisha Wester about her prominent childhood experiences, what happens when your favorite authors are actually racist, imposter syndrome, the cultural move from the US to the UK, cultural consumption, taking up space, supporting POC content, and more. Dr Maisha Wester is a Global Professor teaching at the University of Sheffield, sponsored by the British Academy’s Global Professorship fellowship. Her home institution is Indiana University, Bloomington. Her research and teaching focus on Gothic literature and horror film, investigating  racial discourses and manifestations in Gothic literature and horror film, as well as the way Black Diasporic people have appropriated the genres to speak back against oppressive socioeconomic rhetoric. You can follow her on Twitter. Listen and enjoy! To receive the latest content, subscribe on wherever you listen to podcasts and follow us on Twitter and Instagram at @_introspectives. Check out our website for articles and more: www.introspectives.uk Artwork by Sabrina.

Adrienne, Claire, Sabrina, Sehrish (featuring Jibran!) get together to chat about the past year, reflect on the community created, what it means to hold space for WOCs, and friendship.  Listen and enjoy! To receive the latest content, subscribe on wherever you listen to podcasts and follow us on Twitter and Instagram at @_introspectives. Check out our website for articles and more: www.introspectives.uk Artwork by Sabrina.

FYI SPOILERS. Order of speaking: Sabrina, Natalie, Claire, Adrienne, Hazel Adrienne, Claire, Hazel, Natalie, and Sabrina talk about the Netflix documentary Naomi Osaka, Netflix show The Chair, and the book The Other Black Girl by Zakiya Dalila Harris . They also reflect on their experiences consuming media as women of color and share what they are looking forward to at the end of the year. Happy Holidays! Listen and enjoy! To receive the latest content, subscribe on wherever you listen to podcasts and follow us on Twitter and Instagram at @_introspectives. Check out our website for articles and more: www.introspectives.uk Artwork by Sabrina.

Adrienne's sister Marissa joins this episode of Coffee Convos! Adrienne and Claire ask Marissa about her career experiences, navigating different cultures within the US and UK, her mixed race identity, being a parent, and more. Marissa has been working in tech for over 10 years as a software developer, product manager, and designer. She is passionate about diversity and inclusion, and her recent work has focused on digital design for health. Currently, she is a Research Fellow at The Glasgow School of Art. You can find her on Twitter under @mcc_cummings. Check out the Magnify conference: https://www.magnifyconference.com/ Listen and enjoy! To receive the latest content, subscribe on wherever you listen to podcasts and follow us on Twitter and Instagram at @_introspectives. Check out our website for articles and more: www.introspectives.uk Artwork by Adrienne.

Adrienne, Claire, Hazel, Natalie, and Sabrina talk about the film Minari, series Killing Eve, and documentary Iron Fists and Kung Fu Kicks. Listen and enjoy! To receive the latest content, subscribe on wherever you listen to podcasts and follow us on Twitter and Instagram at @_introspectives. Check out our website for articles and more: www.introspectives.uk Artwork by Sabrina. FYI swear words in this episode are not bleeped.

The team gets together to reflect on the past season, bringing up memorable quotes, favorite moments, and ideas for future episodes. Listen and enjoy! To receive the latest content, subscribe on wherever you listen to podcasts and follow us on Twitter and Instagram at @_introspectives. Check out our website for articles and more: www.introspectives.uk Artwork by Sabrina. FYI swear words are not bleeped in this episode.

Nisha tells Emily and Claire about how she grew up, the white space she was immersed in, beauty and love messages she received, her juxtaposed identity, colorism, people of color in media, being a brown PhD student, and more. Nisha is a full-time PhD student researching in the field of education. While she is exploring different aspects of education to focus her research on, she is a part-time instructional coach for K-12 teachers teaching in various school districts across the U.S. She loves biking, her plants, playing with her dog, Ginger, and eating delicious tacos. You can follow her on Instagram @diaryofabrownphdstudent Listen to Emily's episodes in Season 5:   Episode 8 Asian Americans- We’re Normal, Too!  https://www.introspectives.uk/s5-e8-asian-americans-were-normal-too/   Episode 9 Controlling the Asian American Narrative https://www.introspectives.uk/s5-e9-controlling-the-asian-american-narrative/ Listen and enjoy! To receive the latest content, subscribe on wherever you listen to podcasts and follow us on Twitter and Instagram at @_introspectives. Check out our website for articles and more: www.introspectives.uk Artwork by Sabrina.

Manny tells Claire and Sabrina about his Californian upbringing, experiences abroad in Holland, living in England, colonized notions of love, grappling with identity amidst white supremacy, embracing his Filipino background, men of color in media, and more. Manny Madriaga works in higher education in Northern England and his research interests are on the processes of social exclusion/inclusion related to 'race', ethnicity, and disability in higher education. He is currently a member of the Critical Race Studies in Education Association.  You can catch him on Twitter @mannymadriaga Listen and enjoy! To receive the latest content, subscribe on wherever you listen to podcasts and follow us on Twitter and Instagram at @_introspectives. Check out our website for articles and more: www.introspectives.uk Artwork by Sabrina.

Alice joins Adrienne and Claire to share how she grew up, the beauty and love messages she received, her lived-in experiences as an Asian Canadian woman, reading, popular media, and more. Crazy Rich Asians reference, Lisa Lu: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisa_Lu Joey Wong: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joey_Wong Anita Mui: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anita_Mui Listen and enjoy! To receive the latest content, subscribe on wherever you listen to podcasts and follow us on Twitter and Instagram at @_introspectives. Check out our website for articles and more: www.introspectives.uk Artwork by Sabrina.

Claire asks Taylor about her childhood, growing up with beauty and love messages, beauty icons, love, dating, and more. Taylor Roh (she/her) is a Korean-American musical theatre artist, theatre maker, guitarist, songwriter, and playwright. Originally born in Busan, South Korea, she has recently relocated from Seoul to Glasgow, Scotland to pursue an MLitt in Theatre Studies at University of Glasgow. Taylor is the creator of#MusicallyESEA and will be writing a play about diasporic Koreans and their link between identity and music this summer. linktr.ee/taylorroh_sings Listen and enjoy! To receive the latest content, subscribe on wherever you listen to podcasts and follow us on Twitter and Instagram at @_introspectives. Check out our website for articles and more: www.introspectives.uk Artwork by Sabrina.

Amy and Anthony return to talk with Claire and Adrienne about plastic surgery, gender roles, male body image, and more. Listen to Part One of this topic with Amy and Anthony! Season 5 Episode 13 "I Think Women Are Just Deep": https://www.introspectives.uk/ds5-e13-anthony-and-amy/ Listen and enjoy! To receive the latest content, subscribe on wherever you listen to podcasts and follow us on Twitter and Instagram at @_introspectives. Check out our website for articles and more: www.introspectives.uk Artwork by Sabrina. FYI: swears in this episode that are not bleeped.

Sabrina, Sadye, and Claire  talk about conscious consumption of media, really listening as allies, colorism, and more. Listen and enjoy! To receive the latest content, subscribe on wherever you listen to podcasts and follow us on Twitter and Instagram at @_introspectives. Check out our website for articles and more: www.introspectives.uk FYI swears are not bleeped in this episode. Artwork by Sabrina.

Adrienne, Claire, Sabrina, Sadye, and Sehrish talk about societal pressures on women, the "ticking" body clock, the biological clock, postpartum, judgments on the female body, post-pregnancy care and pregnancy itself. Listen and enjoy! To receive the latest content, subscribe on wherever you listen to podcasts and follow us on Twitter and Instagram at @_introspectives. Check out our website for articles and more: www.introspectives.uk FYI swears are not bleeped in this episode. Artwork by Sabrina.

Adrienne and Heather share their mixed race identity experiences, cases of imposter syndrome, navigating through multiple cultures, and how they are perceived by others. Check out Heather's other episode with us, S5 E14: (Re)Interpreting Society's Messages! https://www.introspectives.uk/ds5-e14-heather/ Listen and enjoy! To receive the latest content, subscribe on wherever you listen to podcasts and follow us on Twitter and Instagram at @_introspectives. Check out our website for articles and more: www.introspectives.uk Artwork by Sabrina.

It’s May, which means it’s Asian Pacific American Heritage Month. Or APPI month, however you want to call it. But it’s a month to celebrate all Asians, honor Asian excellence, and remember the Asian diaspora. This is not limited to just Asian or East Asian Americans. We really struggled to capture the emotions we have around the events of the past few months specifically and the hidden women we wanted to feature. We want to feature these 6 women below because they were hidden in society; they were going about their lives, each with their dreams, families, friends, struggles, and more. Yet upon their death, they were made hyper visible.  And now, they are made invisible again. We don’t want them to be invisible. They are, and were each one of us. We could have been them.  Please remember each of their names and the legacy they have left behind. Daoyou Feng, Hyun Jung Grant (Kim), Sun Cha Kim, Soon Chung Park, Xiaojie Tan, Young Ae Yue More information on our website.  Chloe Zhao: Best Director Academy Award and Youn Yuh-jung: Best Supporting Actress Don’t forget these women. Listen and enjoy! To receive the latest content, subscribe on wherever you listen to podcasts and follow us on Twitter and Instagram at @_introspectives. Check out our website for articles and more: www.introspectives.uk Artwork by Sabrina.

Adrienne, Claire, Enja, Hazel, Natalie, Sabrina, and Sehrish talk about Snowpiercer (the series), I May Destroy You and Black Earth Rising. Questions discussed: 1. Are there any previous conceptions/perspectives you had that you feel were changed after watching these shows? 2. How diverse were the representations of people of color? Do you feel that the media perpetuated any harmful stereotypes? 3. These shows were quite heavy and covered some bleak subject material. Do you think that these depictions were too heavy, or was it warranted given the subjects being discussed? What are the advantages or disadvantages of shows that are more depressing or violent? Listen and enjoy! To receive the latest content, subscribe on wherever you listen to podcasts and follow us on Twitter and Instagram at @_introspectives. Check out our website for articles and more: www.introspectives.uk Artwork by Sabrina.

Adrienne and Claire talk about white allies, the Asian reckoning, APAHM month, AAPI feelings, and POC racism. Listen and enjoy! To receive the latest content, subscribe on wherever you listen to podcasts and follow us on Twitter and Instagram at @_introspectives. Check out our website for articles and more: www.introspectives.uk Artwork by Adrienne. FYI: swears in this episode that are not bleeped.

Claire talks to Adrienne about beauty, love, belonging and identity while taking a walk down memory lane. Listen and enjoy! To receive the latest content, subscribe on wherever you listen to podcasts and follow us on Twitter and Instagram at @_introspectives. Check out our website for articles and more: www.introspectives.uk Artwork by Sabrina. FYI: swears in this episode that are not bleeped.