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On-air protest

Airs at: Fri, 10/18/2019 at 11:00am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Pacific Underground
You’re tuned in to Pacific Underground. In solidarity with the multiple generations of KBOO POC programmers and volunteers who have asked for systemic and cultural change at KBOO, we bring you week one of our on-air protest.   We stand in solidarity with KBOO’s POC caucus... Read more

It Takes A Village To Learn ft. Erica Fuller

Airs at: Sat, 10/12/2019 at 9:00am - Thu, 10/31/2019 at 9:15am
Produced for:  Village Vibes Podcast
NEW EPISODE ALERT Ok y’all, here’s the deal. We’ve been working our ASSES off for this podcast that we love so dearly, but it’s mostly BTS shit that not many see or hear. Well aren’t your ears in for a fuckin treat because we are FINALLY releasing new content!!!! We’re rele... Read more

Asian Femme Time v2

Airs at: Fri, 09/06/2019 at 11:00am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Pacific Underground
  Tabitha welcomes Jenna back to Pacific Underground for another round of asian femme time.  Read more

Home Remedies

Airs at: Thu, 09/19/2019 at 11:00am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Between The Covers
  Xuan Juliana Wang’s remarkable debut introduces us to the new and changing face of Chinese youth. From fuerdai (second-generation rich kids) to a glass-swallowing qigong grandmaster, her dazzling, formally inventive stories upend the immigrant narrative to reveal a new e... Read more

Former Possessions of the Spanish Empire

Airs at: Thu, 08/22/2019 at 11:00am - 11:30am
Produced for:  Between The Covers
Michelle Peñaloza’s ambitious and remarkable debut searches for a place to anchor in spite of a rancorous world where we might have “began as crumbs ferried in the beak of waxwings.” These poems read mythic yet contemporary in their burst of bloom-song and bright blood stro... Read more

Obon celebration

Airs at: Fri, 08/16/2019 at 11:00am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Pacific Underground
Join Producers Tabitha and Sara as we are joined by guest Jenna Yokoyama to talk about Obon, a holiday that has been celebrated in Japan for hundreds of years and celebrated in America since the first Japanese immigrants arrived. What does it mean to the Japanese-American c... Read more

HAPI AAPI Artist Panel

Airs at: Fri, 08/02/2019 at 11:00am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Pacific Underground
Producer Matt Lim attends the HAPI (Hapa, Asian, and Pacific Islanders of Portland) AAPI Artist Panel and listens to some of Portland’s most talented API artists talk about their work. Dmae Roberts (writer, theater, filmmaker, radio producer), Emma Rust (comic artist, youth... Read more

The Grave on the Wall

Airs at: Thu, 08/29/2019 at 11:00am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Between The Covers
  "In this memoir, Brandon Shimoda, an American poet of Japanese descent, tells the story of his family, starting with his grandfather, who was transformed into an 'enemy alien' by World War II; and in doing so, tells a universal story of the horrors of war both physical a... Read more

They Called Us Enemy

Airs at: Thu, 07/25/2019 at 11:00am - 11:30am
Produced for:  Between The Covers
  Host Jenna Yokoyama spoke with two members of the team behind the They Called Us Enemy (Top Shelf, 2019), a graphic novel that tells the biographical story of George Takei's experience with Japanese American concentration camps. Featured are graphic artist Harmony Becker... Read more

The Journey of Lady Buddha

Airs at: Tue, 07/21/2020 at 11:00am - 11:30am
Produced for:  Stage and Studio
  Dmae presents a half-hour version of The Journey of Lady Buddha. The full-length docu-play originally produced in 1999 is a an hour-long personal and historical exploration of cultural conflicts in spirituality and the search for the Asian goddess of compassion and mercy... Read more