Category Season 1

Episode 40! We’re using this round number to announce that we’re going on a hiatus to rethink our follow-through on the goals and wishes that fueled us to start the podcast as a space to talk about diversity in storytelling.…

Elaine Welteroth’s memoir More than Enough recounts her ascent to the position of editor-in-chief of Teen Vogue in the 2010s, and the subsequent transformation of the magazine into a politically engaged voice for a diverse group of young women. In…

Braiding Sweetgrass is one of the best books Lin has ever read. An Indigenous plant ecologist, Robin Wall Kimmerer, blends native healing traditions and storytelling with “hard science” to explain the medical effectiveness of plants and the sustainability of the traditional…

Tiffany Haddish’s memoir, The Last Black Unicorn, balances humour with poignancy as it recounts the personal and professional struggles of the comedian trying to make it in the industry. Haddish’s irreverent style reveals a big heart and a desire to…

In this episode, Lin’s fallen in love with Karena & Kasey’s Foreign Flavours,  a perfectly binge-able travel and food show on CBC Gem. Come for the enticing culinary tours these two Maori sisters from New Zealand experience, and stay for…

Emily Chang’s Brotopia exposes the toxic monoculture of masculinity in the Silicon Valley. For Lin, it solidifies the conviction that journalists make compelling arguments in good stories backed up by a wealth of examples, so she recommends the book not…

We take stock and look forward in this New Year’s episode. Lin talks about the lasting mark Tanya Talaga’s Seven Fallen Feathers (Episode 7) left on her consciousness as a settler in Canada. It fuels Lin’s resolve to attempt a…

Lin appreciated the cultural respect that went into centering a Latina character and story in the movie Dora and the Lost City of Gold. The film uses a fictional myth instead of appropriating existing ones, while the title-character actor drew…

Love Boat: Taiwan is a documentary showcasing the experience of diasporic Chinese and Taiwanese youth who took part in one of the longest-running summer programs in the world. Lin recounts her own experiences and juxtaposes them with the documentary interviewees’…

Queer Eye in Japan straddles a fine line between imposing an eminently Western view onto relationships and approaching their makeover subjects with compassion and a genuine desire to resolve their problems. The Good Place is on the surface a feel-good…