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A weekly live show and podcast on politics & pop culture from an Asian perspective. Listen to us wherever you find your podcasts.

New episodes with journalist on Instagram Live, Sundays at 4pm ET.

09/11/2020

TONIGHT! LAST PLUM RADIO IG LIVE SHOW OF 2020!!!

We have a wonderful guest tonight to wrap up season 2: Dr. Ellen Wu () the author of "The Color of Success: Asian Americans and the Origins of the Model Minority."

Dr. Wu is a historian and professor of Asian American studies. You may have seen her featured in the PBS documentary series, Asian Americans, or heard her on WNYC discussing the complicated history between Asian and Black Americans.

It's been a longgggg few months of unpacking here on Plum Radio with the mission of being "race therapy, but make it a podcast." We know y'all have sent a lot of questions our way over these last few months, so we look forward to sharing some of these thoughts with Dr. Wu at 9pm ET/6pm PT.

Where do you see Asian America going post-2020 and post-Trump presidency? Drop your questions below or DM us through IG stories

07/11/2020

We have an Asian VP 🥺🥺🥺

03/11/2020

Special election eve episode now out on all your fav podcast platforms! Airing out all of our anxieties and read some of y'all's too. MAKE SURE YOU GET OUT & VOTE TODAY FRIENDS!

02/11/2020

PLUM RADIO MONDAY IG LIVE TONIGHT @ 9PM ET/6PM PT

Is your world on fire? Ours too!!! Join us for a round of “race therapy but make it a podcast” tonight on elex 2020 eve as we read all of your woes and anxieties. Let’s all air it out to feel less alone and laugh to keep from crying.

Head to our IG story to send us mail to share live tonight or slide into our DMs 💌

29/10/2020

RIP Cecilia Chiang, the legendary Chinese restaurateur who brought upscale Chinese cuisine to San Francisco with her restaurant, Mandarin, in Ghirardelli Square. Cecilia passed this Wednesday at the age of 100. Blessings 🙏

We're right here crying with you.DM us a voicemail on IG or email us at hi@plumradio.com to share your election woes as ...

29/10/2020

We're right here crying with you.

DM us a voicemail on IG or email us at [email protected] to share your election woes as Nov. 3 gets closer and closer. We'll read y'all's messages on Monday's IG live so that we can all feel less alone in our anxieties 😌

28/10/2020

Blessings and wisdom from comedian, actor, and writer 🙏 New episode of Plum Radio now out on all your fav podcast platforms!

Jenny joins us this week to talk , her new standup show inside the game Animal Crossing. Jenny started Comedy Crossing after the pandemic as a way to build community in our quarantined world, but in the wake of George Floyd’s murder, Comedy Crossing became a fundraising platform that has raised over $30,000 for related causes. But as journalists, we’re obligated to ask the hard questions: is playing Animal Crossing an act of colonization?? Do we accept tiny, cute capitalism? And do Animal Crossing players (like the Biden / Harris campaign) owe reparations?

We also get into Jenny’s past life as a labor organizer, how labor organizing and comedy can both deliver a political education, and why it’s so important for Asian Americans to embrace our messy, traumatic histories so we can take care of our mental health and reject the model minority myth at the same time.

and also lament the “meritocracy” of mediocre rich white people, reacting in real-time to Amy Coney Barrett’s Monday night confirmation to the Supreme Court and unpacking the Atlantic’s recent article “The Mad, Mad World of Niche Sports Among Ivy League–Obsessed Parents.”

Link in bio or head to our IG stories. Listen now wherever you podcast!

14/10/2020

New ep. 25 of Plum Radio now out!

Video journalist Isabelle Niu joins us to talk about the pending WeChat ban and her Quartz video “Is WeChat a Problem for Democracies?” With so much talk around banning Chinese apps like WeChat and TikTok and China’s recent expulsion of American journalists, our tiny window into China is quickly closing.

Isabelle tells us how WeChat provides insight into what the Chinese government is signaling and into the lives of WeChat’s 1 billion users. What are the consequences of not understanding Chinese society and politics? How will alienating China affect diaspora communities?

We also talk to Isabelle about Loud Murmurs, our favorite left-leaning Mandarin language podcast that unpacks foreign culture and media to better understand what it means to be Chinese.

and also atone for Indigenous People’s day sins by proposing to rename Columbus, OH to Flavortown, OH, give a 🚨 MILES GUO ALERT 🚨 about the fight he’s picking with Texas pastor Bob Fu and Big Jesus, and bless the show with an NBA title for Flavortown’s very own LeBron James.

Listen to ep. 25 now on your favorite podcast platforms or hit the link in our bio. And if you wanna hear the latest about TikTok, listen to ep. 17 where we talked to viral video creator

13/10/2020

Feeling that election dread and terror? One way to take action and help is volunteering to phonebank and textbank Asian American communities in battleground states. Asian Americans have some of the lowest voter turnout stats yet we all know how much we love to complain. Less whining, more action! Head to BIT.LY/APALAVOL2020

07/10/2020

New ep. 24 now out on all your fav podcast platforms!

The new cold war is here, and the U.S. and China are fighting it online. Writer and former tech worker JS Tan joins us to discuss the growingly more divided “splinternet,” Silicon Valley’s facade of freedom for the sake of global dominance, and how the U.S. is recreating China’s protectionist internet policies.

We also talk about how this new cold war will endanger Asian diaspora, and how movements like China’s anti-996 movement and rideshare driver revolts show that maybe the two sides of the splinternet aren’t so different after all.

and also read this week’s listener mailbag about the new trailer for the film Minari and discuss what it means to have good and bad Asian American representation.

Hit the link in our bio to listen now or head over to our IG stories. Drop your thoughts below on observations of this new cold war and don’t forget to send us questions to [email protected] to be a part of our Monday IG Live listener mailbag.

07/10/2020

is about to be the first Black woman (and South Asian woman) in a VP debate and her team is strategizing for how to take down the white man. You certainly won't hear her say, "Will you shut up, man?" the way Biden addressed Trump.

Will you be watching the VP debate tonight? Send us your thoughts on IG tonight as we all laugh to not cry alongside y'all.

03/10/2020

Light a blessing for the ancestors lookin out! 🌝🥮🙏

30/09/2020

Yi Chen, the director of the new documentary film , joins us to discuss making a film about first-time Asian American voters on both sides of the political spectrum and digs into why recent Chinese immigrants fear socialism so much that they end up becoming Trump supporters.

and also did their first *mailbag* episode where we responded to questions from YOU, our beloved audience and listeners. Dolly shares her tips on how to pull back from the news cycle, Joey talks about how he turns on Do Not Disturb mode at 5pm. We also discuss Donald Trump’s tax evasion and ponder how many cod had to die for Mr. Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson to cast a vote for Joe Biden. Write to us! We respond to listener questions every Monday night on IG Live: [email protected]

We watched First Vote with our Patreon subscribers and had Yi drop in for an intimate discussion after the viewing party. We host exclusive screening events and monthly Q&As for just our Plum Posse on Patreon so make sure you subscribe today for less than the price of a movie ticket over at patreon.com/plumradio.

And for pure giggles and context for the show, we insist you read, “My Real-Time Response To Learning What The Rock Eats Every Day” by Daniel Mallory Ortberg.

Listen to episode 23 now on your favorite podcast platforms or click the link in our bio to listen now.

28/09/2020

Aaaaand we're back tonight, Monday 9/28 on IG Live! Catch us at 9pm ET as and unpack and unwind from the week. Think of it as race therapy...but make it a podcast 😏

What's on your mind this week? We'll be responding to your questions every week on the live show. Hit us up: [email protected] & see you soon

23/09/2020

“Remote learning is very hard. Nobody wants to do it. Every single kid in the world is losing out on an education.”

Annie Tan, a New York City public school teacher, joins us again on Plum Radio (catch her also on ep. 3 sharing the memory of her late cousin, Vincent Chin) to talk about how teachers and communities are organizing and fighting back against the city’s unsafe plans to reopen schools.

New York City, home to the country’s largest public school system with more than ONE MILLION students, has already delayed schools reopening twice, leaving families, educators, and students stuck in limbo. Many NYC schools have neither proper ventilation nor bathrooms for COVID-19 safety precautions, let alone the technology needed to teach remote classrooms. As tells us, at her school in the immigrant neighborhood of Sunset Park, they don’t even have a dedicated nurse, a role that they’ve been requesting long before COVID-19.

Will it be safe to re-open schools in the U.S. epicenter of the COVID-19 crisis? Who is pushing the narrative that low income students of color need to attend school in-person the most? And where will schools find the funding to fix school infrastructure, provide remote learning devices, offer child care services to educators who have to return to work, and find enough employees to staff both remote and in-person classes?

and also discuss why blindly celebrating the ban on WeChat is actually racist and the new expose about forced hysterectomies in ICE detention centers.

Listen on Spotify, Apple, and wherever you like to podcast, or hit the link in our bio, and head to our Patreon (patreon.com/plumradio) to support our journalism.

23/09/2020

We’re hosting an exclusive virtual viewing party for our subscribers this Friday 9/25 of the new documentary, First Vote!

First Vote takes you deep inside the world of Asian American voters on both sides of the political spectrum, from Sinica podcast host to former Tea Party candidate . If you’ve ever been curious about the motivations of Asian Trump supporters and conservatives, this documentary offers a very intimate glimpse into their lives.

All of our Patreon subscribers also get to invite a +1 to the screening. First Vote’s director Yi Chen () will be joining us Friday night for an intimate Q&A with our Patreon family.

Support Plum Radio & independent media for just $5/month (less than a cup of coffee 😉) to get invited to exclusive film screenings like this and to see sneak peeks into new documentary work from .

Head on over to PATREON.COM/PLUMRADIO to subscribe and get the invite for Friday night!

21/09/2020

NEW PLUM RADIO SHOW TIME! Join us on IG live on Monday nights (that’s TONIGHT!) at 9pm ET. We’re experimenting with our format to!create room to pre-record some episodes with guests who can’t make it on Sunday afternoons or aren’t on Instagram.

Tune in tonight as & catch up on the week and put our holes and blessings out into the universe with y’all. See you soon!

18/09/2020

Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg died this Friday at age 87 "due to complications of metastatic pancreas cancer."

RBG was the director of the Women’s Rights Project of the American Civil Liberties Union in the 1970s where she brought cases that protected against s*x discrimination. She was appointed to the Supreme Court in 1993 by President Bill Clinton.

Rest in power .

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