inbetweenish • bridges across cultures
If you're generally confused about where you belong, you may have just stumbled into the right place! The inbetweenish is exactly what it sounds like: it's about the space in-between, where it's neither here nor there, where you don't fit neatly into a box.
Through open conversations with people from all walks of life, we will share personal stories about growing up in numerous countries, amongst different faiths, speaking multiple languages, and integrating into new and diverse cultures. Join me, your host, Beatriz Nour, as I navigate the delicate dynamics of growing up inbetweenish.
inbetweenish • bridges across cultures
is cultural 'enoughness' a myth? – with Lazou
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Is cultural 'enoughness' a myth?
In this episode, I sit down with Lazou, a Sino-Mauritian-Canadian-American creative, podcasting colleague and friend who also explores questions of belonging. Lazou shares her unique perspective in understanding layered identities while sharing her own diverse cultural identity. Together we discuss:
- seeing the West through Disney colored glasses,
- language learning, translation gaps, and language evolution,
- colonization vs settling and the history of Diego Garcia,
- being Chinese enough, confronting biases and so much more!
Lazou is a talented musician, producer, and writer, hosting the 'Nuances: Our Asian Stories' podcast. Through her platform, she examines the Asian diaspora experience, tackling topics like queerness in pre-modern Asian times.
Episode Mentions:
- Podcast — Nuances: Our Asian Stories
- Podcast — Nuances Season 2: Queering Pre-Modern Asia
- Book — Indigenous Continent: The Epic Contest for North America by Pekka Hämäläinen
- Diego Garcia — Human Rights Watch: UK, US Expelled Islanders 50 Years Ago, a Crime Against Humanity
- Diego Garcia — AJ+ How the U.S. Stole This Paradise Island?
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Original music is composed and produced by Malik Elmessiry.
The inbetweenish pod is created and hosted by Beatriz Nour.
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