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Modern Minorities

De: Sharon Thony & Raman Sehgal
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  • Sharon Lee Thony and Raman Sehgal are two MODERN MINORITIES - Asian-American industry pros "making it" (?) - even though they never became the doctors their parents wanted them to be. Each week, they are joined by folks of all stripes - entrepreneurs, corporates, athletes, reporters, politicians, entertainers, and more - to uncover how our different cultural backgrounds shape how we uniquely experience the world. MODERN MINORITIES is a collection of conversations about work and life through the lens of race and gender. It is a show where we talk about “the thing” that everyone is thinking about, but nobody is actually talking about it. New episodes drop weekly.
    2024 Sharon Thony & Raman Sehgal
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  • Perspolis’ (perplexing) Persian protagonist

    Perspolis’ (perplexing) Persian protagonist
    Jul 15 2024
    “The normalization of things being taken away. You see all the things going on in Tehran in 1979 — you see them here as well, which makes it a sad, scary, and timeless tale.” PERSEPOLIS, by Marjane Satrapi is an award winning, now banned graphic autobiography from the early 2000s about a young girl growing up in Iran, and becoming a woman overseas, returning home, and dealing with everything in between.Originally published in French, Persepolis has sold millions of copies worldwide, and Satrapi also produced an award-winning film of the same name. In Persepolis, we meet young Marjane “Marji” Satrapi growing up in Tehran just before and during the Iranian Revolution of 1979, as well as thru the start of the Iran + Iraq War in the 1980s. Her parents are secular, upper-middle class activists, who worry for their precocious daughter's safety in the increasingly conservative and dangerous Iran, so send her off to Austria to become a teenager. Her teen years are fraught with all the drama you can expect from such an experience, but Marji - now becoming a young woman - always maintains the experience of an outsider looking in - with her feet in both worlds. Marji eventually returns to Iran to find that not only has her mother country changed, but she as well. This book was a surprise and illuminating for us in many ways, making us question - what would WE do in such a situation? This conversation is originally from from Quarantined Comics, where Raman + friends read comics that are so much more than just superheroes. PERSEPOLIS is a very Modern Minorities appropriate work, especially for the times we’re living in, which you’ll get to here us reflect on. Longtime friend of THAT pod Joshua joins from his most excellent podcast RABBIT FIGHTERS, where they pretty much do the same thing, but about movies and music. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    46 m
  • Veera Hiranandani’s (writing) identity

    Veera Hiranandani’s (writing) identity
    Jul 1 2024
    “What happens after we've survived? What's our responsibility to somebody suffering more than I am? For kids it’s like, ‘Let's just go over and help them — like, why wouldn't we?’ “ Veera Hiranandani is an award-winning author of several books for young people - one of the most recent of which is THE NIGHT DIARY - a must read. While the novel is a historical fiction geared for adolescents and young adults, it’s a a heart-warming read that will pull you into a singular story through the eyes of a young girl experiencing one of history’s greatest traumas.. Veera went on to win the prestigious Newbery Award for the book, as well as the 2019 Walter Dean Myers Honor Award, the 2018 Malka Penn Award for Human Rights in Children's Literature, and several other honors and state reading list awards. Veera’s work speaks to the power of stories to spark conversations. Veera’s written a number of other award-winning books - including “How to Find What You're Not Looking For,” and “The Whole Story of Half a Girl. ”Her latest novel - AMIL & THE AFTER, is a follow-up to The Night Diary and it does what not many other books do - it examines the immediate AFTERMATH of a generational - and historical trauma. Again, through the eyes of a child. Veera’s journey - and story is a one that crosses cultures and generations - and it’s interesting to see how she pulls at the threads of her life to inform her work, and ask lots of hard whys - and why nots. LEARN MORE veerahiranandani.com instagram.com/veerawrites BOOK: The Night Diary (2018): goodreads.com/book/show/35464020-the-night-diary BOOK: How to Find What You're Not Looking For (2021) goodreads.com/book/show/56912931-how-to-find-what-you-re-not-looking-for BOOK The Whole Story of Half a Girl (2012) goodreads.com/book/show/11164727-the-whole-story-of-half-a-girl BOOK: Amil & the After (2024): goodreads.com/book/show/139400607-amil-and-the-after MENTIONS: BOOKS: All-of-a-Kind Family Series (Sydney Taylor): goodreads.com/series/49417-all-of-a-kind-family BOOK: the Namesake (Jhumpa Lahiri) - goodreads.com/book/show/33917.The_Namesake ACTOR: Irfan Khan - imdb.com/name/nm0451234/ BOOK: Moon Palace (Paul Auster): goodreads.com/book/show/447.Moon_Palace Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    1 h y 1 m
  • USA Travel (Learnings) from Nebraska to Wyoming

    USA Travel (Learnings) from Nebraska to Wyoming
    Jun 17 2024
    “Make the time to scratch beneath the surface in each state. Spending time with the people - in the cities, in the towns, at the restaurants - you're always going to uncover something.” Summer marches on, and we’re making plans to get out and about. Hear part TWO of Raman’s USA Travel series (from his other pod LEARNINGS FROM LEADERS) - covering the second half of stories and learnings from Raman + co-host Drew’s travels across America - from Nebraska to Wyoming. The only way to truly understand all that is this big, wonderful, and diverse country of ours is to get out into it - and go beyond your comfort zone. Be sure to check out part one for more on the United States of Laughter - and Learnings... LEARN MORE BOOK: United States of Laughter (Drew Tarvin): goodreads.com/book/show/36269422-the-united-states-of-laughter SONG: Home (Edward Sharp & The Magnetic Zeroes):youtube.com/watch?v=DHEOF_rcND8 CO-HOST: drewtarvin.com OTHER POD: pgalums.com/podcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    51 m
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