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Diverse Radio for Minnesota's Communities
“Pretendians” is a term new to many of us. Really, it’s another term for fraud and cultural appropriation, specific to the Indigenous communities. From academia to the arts, non-Native peoples are faking their cultural background in order to gain recognition and work. Pretendians and cultural frauds cause more harm to the communities they appropriate than … [Read Transcript...]
“Pretendians” is a term new to many of us. Really, it’s another term for fraud and cultural appropriation, specific to the Indigenous communities. From academia to the arts, non-Native peoples are faking their cultural background in order to gain recognition and work. Pretendians and cultural frauds cause more harm to the communities they appropriate than … [Read Transcript...]
On this special episode of Counter Stories, producer Hlee Lee is joined by members of the Asian-Pacific Islander community to talk about Lunar New Year and how it’s celebrated differently throughout the world. They also collectively process the recent mass shootings that involved members of the California API community. Guests: May Esperanza Losloso, Kai Hsu, … [Read Transcript...]
*trigger warning* With recent shootings in Minnesota (at Washington Tech School, Jerry Lee Rec Center, Mall of America), the crew discusses how these incidents are impacting our lives and our views on what’s happening in community. We ask why people are so willing to kill and how we can, if we can, find and make … [Read Transcript...]
