Queer Asian Podcast Club

Formerly known as "The Gaysian Podcast", the Queer Asian Podcast Club is a podcast from the Queer Asian Social Club that aims to create a space in which we can explore the Queer Asian experience. Hosted by the QASC founder Maya Reddy, an American Born Confused Queer Desi, this podcast embarks on conversations with folx both within the Queer Asian community and outside of the community in an effort to empower our stories and experiences and understand the assumptions and attitudes placed upon us. Get in touch with us at queerasiansocialclub.com and use the hashtag #QueerAsianPodcastClub

Episodes

Dripping in Gold ft. Al Sandimirova of Automic Gold

November 25, 2020 • 58 mins

*extreme Gossip Girl voice* bet you thought you saw the last of us? Guess again, the Queer Asian Podcast Club is BACK with an all new special episode to celebrate community this Thanksgiving, but more importantly to celebrate indigenous peoples. This week’s guest is the founder and person behind the brilliant queer, radical, and gorgeous jewelry company Automic Gold - Al Sandimirova a brilliant central indigenous Asian queer and tr...

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"Come for the eye candy, stay for the soul food" ft. Chance Calloway

July 9, 2020 • 76 mins

We're so excited about this week's LONG overdue episode with filmmaker Chance Calloway! We recorded this episode last year, and are so excited for you all to meet our friend, the brilliant and wonderful Chance Calloway. A queer Black filmmaker who is behind one of our favourite shows "Pretty Dudes" and the new Pretty Dudes novel! Both can be found on Amazon for binging and reading (go do that ASAP they are both wonderful). This con...

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What Stuffed Animals Are You Quarantined With? ft. Jiavani Linayao

June 23, 2020 • 63 mins

this week we’re with one of our favorites, the hilarious, kind, brilliant and gorgeous Jiavani Linayao ! Jiavani is a queer Black and Filipino actor, singer, writer and comic who co-produces the GaysianAF show at UCB, has hit on Jon Hamm in Between Two Ferns the movie, and has given us the musical origin story of Buffalo Wild Wings through SHUFFLE OFF TO BUFFALO: THE MUSICAL on @offbookpod. Needless to say Jiavani is the best, and ...

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Activism and Design ft. Robert Diep

June 16, 2020 • 64 mins

While we continue to celebrate, amplify, and fight for ALL Black Lives, we also want to continue celebrating the voices and stories of our queer and trans APIMED community. This week, we are excited to debut Season 3 of the podcast! Formerly The Gaysian Podcast and now the #QueerAsianPodcastClub - celebrating the stories and experiences of queer and trans APIMED folks. This week we’re chatting with our friend and brilliant designer...

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"The Asian American Films That Taught Us To Be Asian American Are All Queer Stories" ft. Brian Hu

November 12, 2019 • 63 mins

Let's give a warm welcome to SDSU Film studies professor and programming director at PacArts, Brian Hu! On this week's episode, we talk about representation, history of AsAm film, and how the Asian American experience is inherently a queer one. Follow Brian on instagram @husbrian and listen to his podcast on Asian American Pop Culture history "Saturday School" wherever podcasts are found!

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Hail Satan(na) ft. Leonard Alyashaa aka Satanna the Queen

October 30, 2019 • 73 mins

Hail, Satan(na). Please give a warm welcome to this week's #TheGaysianPodcast guest (and TGP's very own social media queen) hailing all the way from hell, Satanna! Listen to us discuss all things drag, community work, and the queer Middle-Eastern American experience.

Follow her at @stannaqueen

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"Aunty, your radish earrings? Thats Gay" ft. Jamie Lew, QASC Events Director

October 15, 2019 • 85 mins

Surprise, surpriiiiiise! This week's #GaysianPodcast special guest is the Queer Asian Social Club's one and only Jamie Lew! Jamie is The Gaysian Project's QASC Event Director spearheading with all things event-related. You'll want to listen to this episode for sure as we dissect the stigma queer Asian femme shaming and talk about what led to the Queer Asian Social Club and teasing the upcoming QASC event on October 26: RITUAL. RSVP...

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On Culture, Sex, and Academia ft. Ada Cheng, PhD

October 1, 2019 • 112 mins

Please welcome Ada Cheng, a Chicago-based sociology PhD professor who specialises in storytelling centering APIMED folxs. Ada is absolutely incredible, and we're so excited to share this conversation that covers everything from the difficulty in defining culture, navigating academia, and finding sexual empowerment.

Find her at http://www.renegadeadacheng.com/ and on instagram at @sjadacheng

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DIS-ORIENTing, drag, & SE Asian Deportation ft. Kevin Lam

September 17, 2019 • 79 mins

Hello Gaybies! Welcome, this week's podcast guest, Kevin Lam, a Boston-based activist, and drag queen! Kevin talks about their South East Asian experience surrounding their activism and work around deportations. Listen to their story and see how drag helped them understand and connect with their identities.

You can follow them on insta at @seavalalycheesaigon

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Asian Not Asian Podcast Pls Text Us Back or: Our Response to ANA's Episode 74

August 8, 2019 • 59 mins

A couple weeks ago fellow Asian led podcast, Asian Not Asian Podcast, released an episode (#74) and an accompanying clip from the episode on instagram. Both feature a problematic and hurtful conversation and jokes regarding the the dating habits of women as well as queerness. This is our response, a conversation we hope that will be a growing moment as to why the jokes on ANA were harmful, the importance of accountability, and how ...

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This is Akin ft. Peyton and Hubert

May 28, 2019 • 81 mins

On our Season 1 finale we are talking with two of the people behind AKIN, an art collective in NYC focused on uplifting queer and POC artists and creators. We chat with Peyton and Hubert about the incredible work they are doing with Akin as well as their own experiences as queer Filipinx people. Follow AKIN on IG @thisisakinnyc

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"Constant Guest, Constant Alien" ft. Robin and Daisy of APAIT LA

May 17, 2019 • 98 mins

This week we have two really badass guests from APAIT, an API AIDS/HIV resource and activism group in Los Angeles, Robin and Daisy! This is a fantastic conversation about the stigma of HIV/AIDs in API communities, the performance of masculinity and fear of femininity amongst Asian men, and RuPaul’s Drag Race! On instagram: @apait_ssg ; @robinhamchoi ; @daisynconfusd The Gaysian Podcast can be found on ig: @thegaysianproject ...

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The Diaspora Isn't Just in Europe and North America ft. Actor Premika Leo

May 10, 2019 • 80 mins

This week we’re chatting with Toronto based indo-carribean-canadian queer actor Premika Leo! This conversation is one that isn’t always had in APIMED spaces, especially Desi spaces. That is: the erasure of Indo-Carribean folks from the diaspora.We also get into the complexities of POC representation, and the fact that while there is more queer representation than ever, QTPOC representation is still so minimal. Jump into this episod...

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The Power of Heritage and Telling Your Own Story ft. Randy Kim

May 2, 2019 • 100 mins

We are kicking off our celebration of APIMEDA Heritage Month with an episode all about the power of connecting with your heritage and telling your own story. Featuring incredible human being, activist and storyteller, Randy Kim who serves on the board of the National Cambodian Heritage Museum and co-produces TALK Stories: an Asian and Asian American Storytelling Series. Follow Randy's work at: @randall_kimball and find us at...

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LIVE at ClexaCon ft. Chantal Thuy, Andrea Walter, Nicole Espinosa, and CB Lee

April 17, 2019 • 73 mins

Coming at you with our first live episode recorded at ClexaCon 2019 from "The Gaysian Project Presents: Celebrating Queer Asian Americans in Media and Fandom" panel! Follow the panelists: @chantalthuy @andreaannwalter @cblee_cblee @colesmcgee

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Creating Asian American Culture ft. Author Nishta J. Mehra

April 5, 2019 • 65 mins

This episode is a special conversation with author Nishta J. Mehra, abt her new book "Brown, White, Black" that explores the intersections of identity, religion, and sexuality in her family. We get into so many things including, the role Hinduism has played in her connection to identity, struggling with both assimilating and standing out, and how she and her family are truly creating these beautiful images of Asian American culture...

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"Heavy Metal Asian Fan" ft. Nicole Espinosa

March 29, 2019 • 118 mins

Feminist, scholar, activist Nicole Espinosa is back on the podcast to talk about fan culture and how it functions in marginalised communities! It is a super-sized episode in which we get into everything from our own fandoms to ethno-historical explanatory models of how we interact with fandom, the need to complicate the things we're fans of, and digging into why queer femme representation is still predominantly white and straight p...

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Nowruz Mubarak! ft. Omid Razavi of Let Me Out Book

March 22, 2019 • 81 mins

Nowruz Mubarak! Happy Persian New Year! We are so thrilled to be spending the 13 days of celebration with Omid Razavi - a gay Iranian Canadian author and illustrator of the Let Me Out book that provides support for LGBTQ+ youth to give them solidarity and encouragement through their processes of exploring their identities. In this episode, we get to talk about his work, what it was like growing up in Ottawa Canada and gaining pride...

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Just Three Indians Talking About Comic Books ft. Kesav and Samarjeet Wable

February 8, 2019 • 106 mins

This week's episode is with filmmaker Kesav Wable and his brother Samarjeet talking about the new short film they made called “Closet Supes." The short is an exploration of queer Desi identity, the first generation Desi American experience, reconnecting with our elders, and superheroes. We are excited to share our conversation that continues to explore the themes of Desi identity, and superheroes, and finding our identities. Follo...

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"Planes, Trains, and Intersectional Queer Inclusivity in Golf" ft. Pro Golfer Tadd Fujikawa

January 24, 2019 • 81 mins

This week's episode is just a couple of queer Asian golfers talking about the queer Asian experience. My guest is fellow pro golfer and athlete ally ambassador, Tadd Fujikawa! Tadd is wonderful, he is the youngest player in history to qualify for the US Open in 2006 at 16, he’s made 14 starts on the PGA Tour, and in August 2018, became the first male prof golfer to openly come out as gay. We talk about Tadd's experiences, both of ...

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Episodes

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What Stuffed Animals Are You Quarantined With? ft. Jiavani Linayao

Activism and Design ft. Robert Diep

"The Asian American Films That Taught Us To Be Asian American Are All Queer Stories" ft. Brian Hu

Hail Satan(na) ft. Leonard Alyashaa aka Satanna the Queen

"Aunty, your radish earrings? Thats Gay" ft. Jamie Lew, QASC Events Director

On Culture, Sex, and Academia ft. Ada Cheng, PhD

DIS-ORIENTing, drag, & SE Asian Deportation ft. Kevin Lam

Asian Not Asian Podcast Pls Text Us Back or: Our Response to ANA's Episode 74

This is Akin ft. Peyton and Hubert

"Constant Guest, Constant Alien" ft. Robin and Daisy of APAIT LA

The Diaspora Isn't Just in Europe and North America ft. Actor Premika Leo

The Power of Heritage and Telling Your Own Story ft. Randy Kim

LIVE at ClexaCon ft. Chantal Thuy, Andrea Walter, Nicole Espinosa, and CB Lee

Creating Asian American Culture ft. Author Nishta J. Mehra

"Heavy Metal Asian Fan" ft. Nicole Espinosa

Nowruz Mubarak! ft. Omid Razavi of Let Me Out Book

Just Three Indians Talking About Comic Books ft. Kesav and Samarjeet Wable

"Planes, Trains, and Intersectional Queer Inclusivity in Golf" ft. Pro Golfer Tadd Fujikawa

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Dripping in Gold ft. Al Sandimirova of Automic Gold

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