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CymaSpace: Inclusive Music, Visible Sound
Air date: 6/15/2018 **Read the transcript of the feature: CymaSpace Transcript CymaSpace is a non-profit performance venue & technology incubator in...
Las Cafeteras: Political Folk for the Soul
Air date: 4/30/2018 Read the transcript of the episode: 051618 intersections with Las Cafeteras Las Cafeteras, the Chicano band from LA, and what I li...
Brenda Rufener: Homeless Youth
Air date: 4/30/2018 **Read the transcript of the episode: 051618 intersections with Brenda Rufener Brenda Rufener’s debut YA novel, Where I Live, fol...
Nidhi Chanani: Empowerment Through Fantasy
Nidhi Chanani is a survivor. She survived a traumatic childhood and the loss of her first baby. That doesn’t stop her from finding and celebrating the...
Shanthi Sekaran: Un/documented Motherhood
Shanthi Sekaran is the author of the novel “Lucky Boy”, about adoption, immigration and motherhood, in Berkeley, CA. Two mothers’ paths cross unexpect...
Celeste Ng: Motherhood Across Boundaries
The last time I spoke with Celeste Ng was for her debut novel, Everything I Never Told You, which won critical acclaim and in fact was featured in one...
Alia Malek: Syria, Inside and Out
Alia Malek is the author of The Home that was Our Country: A Memoir of Syria, in which she she weaves the personal history of her family – particula...
Bomba Estéreo Rocks Indigenous Roots
Back in August, the day before their latest digital album was released, Bomba Estéreostopped by Portland to start their extensive international tour....
Rene Denfeld: On humanizing trauma
Rene Denfeld won critical acclaim for her first novel, The Enchanted, inspired by her experience as an investigator on death penalty cases. Her second...
Vanessa Grubbs: Racial Disparities in Kidney Transplants
Dr. Vanessa Grubbs is one of the rare few black doctors in nephrology (specializing in the kidney) and that’s just the beginning. She recently publish...
Jonny Sun Explores Human Nature
Jonathan Sun is a doctoral student in Urban Studies at MIT – but he’s better known as @jonnysun, the alien character twitter phenomenon with nearly 50...
Moazzam Sheikh: Representing Literary South Asian America
The Chicago Quarterly Review is a literary anthology that invites aspiring and established writers to submit fiction, nonfiction and poetry. Any write...
Zainab Alkebsi: A SCOTUS Tale
Did you know that July is the anniversary month of the Americans with Disability Act (1990)? July is also the anniversary month of Intersections Radio...
Sandhya Menon: When Dimple Met Rishi
Sandhya Menon is the author of the young adult romance novel When Dimple Met Rishi, her debut novel. The story follows two Indian American (Gujarati,...
Nina Diaz: Recovery, Authenticity and Identity
Nina Diaz, lead singer of the indie punk rock band, Girl in a Coma has been on tour for her debut solo album, The Beat is Dead. This album tells the s...
On Common Ground: From Pakistan to Portland
Sometimes I have the opportunity to host badass South Asian artists in studio, and it is always a very good day. It’s one thing we get to take over th...
Jennifer Yu: Four Weeks, Five People
Boston-native Jennifer Yu has had quite an eventful year: She published her debut young adult novel, Four Weeks, Five People, just before graduating f...
Vieux Farka Touré: Music as National Service
Last month, I had the wonderful opportunity to meet and chat with Malian blues guitarist extraordinaire: Vieux Farka Touré. Mali is home to so many ou...
Gaby Moreno: Spanglish Folk-Soul
Since moving to Los Angeles from her native Guatemala, singer-songwriter Gaby Moreno has achieved remarkable success as a musician. She has been nomin...
#JournalismIsNotACrime: Jenni Monet Embedded & Arrested at Standing Rock
The last time I talked about the protests at Standing Rock, ND, there was a victory of sorts: the Army Corps of Engineers had denied easement to bui...
#NODAPL: Sarah Young Bear-Brown
One of the longest running stories of 2016 was the protest at Standing Rock, ND – to reroute the Dakota Access Pipeline. This protest gathered indigen...
#Deaf(in)Justice Part 2: Talila Lewis
**This is the second episode in a two-part series that discusses the Deaf community’s complicated relationship with the Justice System. The Deaf commu...
#Deaf(in)Justice Part 1: Amber Farrelly
**This is the first episode in a two-part series that discusses the Deaf community’s complicated relationship with the Justice System. The Deaf commun...
Anat Maytal: A SCOTUS Tale
Anat Maytal is the president of the Deaf and Hard of Hearing Bar Association and an attorney with Baker Hostetler in New York City specializing in Bus...
Imam Daayiee Abdullah: Reconciling Faith and Sexuality
**This is the second episode in a two-part series examining the intersection of sexuality with faith and ethnicity. You can listen to the first episod...
Sapna Pandya: On Faith, Tradition and Sexuality
**This is the first in a two-part series examining the intersection of sexuality with faith and ethnicity. I first met Sapna Pandya, very briefly, wh...
#CripTheVote: Alice Wong, Gregg Beratan, Andrew Pulrang
The disability community comprises of the world’s largest minority. Thanks to the efforts of Alice Wong, Gregg Beratan and Andrew Pulrang, the communi...
Sikh Captain America Kicks Intolerant Ass
For my podcast, Intersections Radio, I’ve been doing a three-part series on South Asian comic/graphic/cartoon artists who use their talent and artwork...
Adil and Kamil Imtiaz: Buraaq
For my podcast, Intersections Radio, I’m doing a series on South Asian comic/graphic/cartoon artists who use their talent and artwork for social justi...
Gauher Aftab: Paasban – The Guardian
For my podcast, Intersections Radio, I’m doing a series on South Asian comic/graphic/cartoon artists who use their talent and artwork for social justi...
Chaitali Sen: The Pathless Sky
Chaitali Sen is a writer from Austin, TX. Her debut novel, The Pathless Sky, is the story of a couple navigating their relationship through a country’...
D’Lo’s Big Fat South Asian Wedding: A Coming Out Story
D’Lo is a queer/transgender Tamil-Sri Lankan-American actor, writer, and comedian. The first time we met was back in 2013 during the Dis/Orient/Ed com...
Nayomi Munaweera: What Lies Between Us
Nayomi Munaweera is a brilliant author whose writing draws from her life experiences in Sri Lanka, Nigeria and California. The first time I met her, w...
David Perry: Policy Brutality, Disability, and the Media
One of the topics I’ve been exploring on this show is the relationship between police and people of color with disabilities – and the dearth of covera...
Virginia Espino: No Más Bebés
For International Women’s Day this year, I am showcasing an interview with Virginia Espino: she’s UCLA scholar and Program Coordinator of Latino & Lat...
Anirvan Chatterjee & Barnali Ghosh: Intersecting Black History and South Asian American History
We’re closing out Black History Month and I wanted to feature another set of superstar Bay Area activists who have invested in recognizing our communi...
Leroy Moore: Black Kripple Delivers Poetry & Lyrics
Leroy Moore is a superstar disability justice activist and hip hop artist from the SF Bay Area and also, was a guest on the inaugural episode of Inter...
Tanwi Nandini Islam: Bright Lines
Something I love about interviewing authors is learning actual histories of different lands through the power of fiction. I had this opportunity again...
Deepa Iyer: We Too Sing America
Well it has been an awful year with regard to mass shootings around the US – and we’re not even finished yet. So it is timely that Deepa Iyer’s book,...
#WPSDhungerstrike: Fight for Deaf Children’s Education
People all over the United States are hunger striking for Deaf children’s education at Western Pennsylvania School for the Deaf. This program has come...