Where Y'all Really From
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Where Y'all Really From
What’s the one universal question Asian Americans are asked at least once (but more like a million times) in their lives? "Where are you from?” “No, but where are you really from?” Where Y'all Really From focuses on the tens of thousands of folks whose answer is, “Kentucky!” Hosts Charlene Buckles...
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'My immigrant mom's pride and disappointment' | A conversation about parents and children
The children of immigrants often have a complicated relationship with their parents. It’s not unusual for first-, one-and-a-half and second-generation...
'They come to me when they're hungry' | A conversation about food and love
The holiday season is upon us, and so many of our celebrations are centered around a table full of delicious food. In AAPI families, cooking food is p...
Joyce and Xiao-Yin Chen | 'I'm from here now'
On this episode, Dan Wu introduces us to mother-and-daughter duo Joyce Chen and Xiao-Yin Chen. Joyce reflects on her early life in China and how she e...
Nancy Ngo | 'A bridge between America and Vietnam'
It's not unusual for young people to keep things secret from their parents. Having to repeat a college course, letting the apartment get too messy......
Angela Singla | 'If she can do this, I can do this too'
When Dr. Angela Singla was a little girl, she got sick during a trip to India. While hospitalized there, she had an eye-opening experience. "I saw a f...
Nima, Charlene and Dan | 'Can we reclaim our names?'
Your name is usually the first thing you share when you meet new people. And if you're an immigrant, your name can either make you blend in, or mark y...
Kaili Moss | 'People can hold multiple truths'
It’s a phenomenon uncomfortably familiar to many biracial people. Not enough to belong to one group, too much to belong to another. In this episode, C...
Language and Identity | 'You speak English so well!'
Every immigrant family has to decide what their relationship will be with their first language. Some parents insist their kids speak it, some turn awa...
Teja Sudhakar | 'Things that I loved too much to ignore'
In this episode, Dan Wu introduces us to Teja Sudhakar, a poet and University of Kentucky graduate, originally from Chennai, India. Teja talks about h...
Chef Edward Lee | 'Things change because we plant seeds'
We’re back with an all-new season, and our first guest is Chef Edward Lee. When he was around 11, he told his parents he wanted to be a chef. “They we...
A conversation about the Lunar New Year shootings
Hi friends, it's been a while. And tragically, we find ourselves in a situation similar to the one that inspired us to start this show in the first pl...
Surprise Bonus Episode!
Sure, our season's over... but we miss you already! So in this bonus mini episode, our hosts Dan Wu and Charlene Buckles reflect on season one, which...
Lee Kiefer and Gerek Meinhardt | 'Just loving the sport is enough'
We're closing our season with an interview of Olympian proportions. Fencers Gerek Meinhardt and Lee Kiefer are... pretty accomplished. Gerek is a four...
Angelika Weaver | 'We can be one voice'
Living in Williamsburg, Kentucky, a town in the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains with a population of 5,000, is a mixed bag for a Pacific Island...
Dr. Joann Lianekhammy | 'You are who you are'
The children of first-generation immigrants often have a complicated relationship with language. Some immigrant parents refuse to speak their native l...
Ie Meh | 'A place to call home'
-----------Note: this episode contains descriptions of violence in the context of a military coup, around the 9-minute mark until the 11-minute mark.-...
Donna Lee Kwon and Jon Silpayamanant | 'Music as a window to understanding'
"If Beethoven had grown up in the Bay Area in the early 1980s, he would have started a thrash band, probably." Irresponsibly wild conjecture, or anoth...
Melanie Parker | 'We just have to do the work'
Being othered, or outright discriminated against, puts you on the spot. You don't know how to react, and you make a million instant mental calculation...
Naveen Chaubal | 'I do hear you'
Filmmaker Naveen Chaubal grew up making movies. "For school projects, I would always try and sneak and maybe doing a video instead of writing a paper,...
Uyen Nguyen | 'You keep things within your family'
Uyen Nguyen is a social worker and therapist. She's also Vietnamese American. And those things can feel at odds with each other.
"The m...
Danni Quintos | 'Disentangle yourself from your historical self.'
Sometimes you expect to talk about poetry and knitting, but you end up talking about disentangling race, love and relationships. Or at least you do if...
Sarah Trainor Graves | 'Four Typed Lines'
After the Korean War, there was a sudden increase in Korean-born babies being adopted by families in Europe, Canada and the United States. By the late...
Dr. Neeli Bendapudi | 'United We Stand'
Dan and Charlene sit down with University of Louisville President Dr. Neeli Bendapudi. She’s the first woman and the first person of color to lead the...
Origin Story | 'Living in that Third Space'
It's our very first episode, so we gathered the whole team -- Dan Wu, Charlene Buckles, Nima Kulkarni, and Mae Suramek -- for a good old fashioned ori...
No, but where are you REALLY from?
Introducing Where Y'all Really From, a podcast about Asian Americans in Kentucky. Here's a taste of season one, launching Sept 21!