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Self Evident: Asian America's Stories
Self Evident: Asian America's Stories
Self Evident Media

We tell Asian America's stories to go beyond being seen. As people of all backgrounds reckon with complex legacies of race, power, culture,... more

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Episodes

Self Evident Presents: “Live! Making Before Me With Lisa Phu” (by The Vietnamese Boat People podcast)

Our friend Tracey Nguyen Mang, host of the Vietnamese Boat People Podcast, goes behind the scenes with Lisa... more

01 Jun 2023 · 48 minutes
Self Evident Presents: “How to Wash Your Brain” (by Boen Wang and Feet in 2 Worlds)

Boen’s mom thinks he’s brainwashed by the New York Times. Boen thinks his mom is brainwashed by the... more

25 Apr 2023 · 38 minutes
Self Evident Presents: "Exploring Ancestral Grief" (by Grief, Collected)

America! The land of opportunity! And also, for so many, the ambiguous loss of immigration and uprooting a life and... more

18 Jan 2023 · 44 minutes
Self Evident Presents: "Arrival" (by VPM's Resettled)

The LahPai family’s arrival to Virginia from Myanmar was highly anticipated: the local resettlement agency prepped their home; the local... more

11 Jan 2023 · 32 minutes
Self Evident Presents: "Before They Were Your Parents" (by Immigrantly)

Today, we're sharing some work by our friends at Immigrantly, a weekly podcast that features deeply personal conversations about race,... more

05 Jan 2023 · 41 minutes
Help us by taking our listener survey!

Please take our listener survey to tell us what you think of Before Me! The survey is anonymous, takes 5... more

03 Jan 2023 · 1 minute
Before Me, Part 5: Birthday Card

Just before I gave birth to my daughter Acacia, I turned 36. And on my birthday my mom sent me... more

27 Dec 2022 · 17 minutes
Before Me, Part 4: Head of the House

At the moment my mom steps onto a small fishing boat off the coast of Cambodia, headed for a refugee... more

20 Dec 2022 · 31 minutes
Before Me, Part 3: Beautiful Country

Reunited with my cousin Lynn, my mom becomes a gold dealer to support her growing family — and realizes that... more

13 Dec 2022 · 28 minutes
Before Me, Part 2: Photograph

As the genocidal regime of Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge takes hold of Cambodia, my mom and dad run... more

06 Dec 2022 · 36 minutes
Before Me, Part 1: Firstborn

When I became a parent, my mom flew across the country to help me take care of my firstborn child.... more

29 Nov 2022 · 27 minutes
Introducing "Before Me": A new series from Self Evident

Lisa Phu grew up telling a story about how her family left Cambodia as refugees, to start a new life... more

15 Nov 2022 · 2 minutes
Self Evident Presents: "Get Up Stand Up" (by Re:Work)

When you get into a taxi, you usually know where you’re coming from, where you’re going, and what you’ll do... more

21 Jun 2022 · 29 minutes
(BONUS) Hunger Strike! How Immigrant Taxi Drivers Took on City Hall

When Augustine Tang’s father passed away, Augustine decided to inherit his taxi medallion – the license that had allowed his... more

18 May 2022 · 29 minutes
Say Goodbye to Yesterday

Amidst the ongoing crush of anti-Asian violence in America, Producer James turns to a personal source of restoration: ska music... more

22 Feb 2022 · 1 hour, 2 minutes
Heartbeats

The Covid-19 pandemic has underscored the importance of caregiving work — and the ways that this work is overlooked, under-resourced,... more

07 Feb 2022 · 42 minutes
Help us out by taking our survey

Hey everybody, I'm asking for just a few minutes of your time to help what us keep doing what we... more

01 Feb 2022 ·
Specially Processed

For so many Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders, Spam is a beloved classic food, showing up in everything from musubi... more

18 Jan 2022 · 39 minutes
Bonus: Diaspora DJ Roundtable 2021 Feat. Les Talusan, Arshia Fatima Haq, and Roger Bong

Community Producer Rochelle Kwan (a.k.a. YiuYiu in her DJ life) gathers the DJs who joined her in curating our first... more

04 Jan 2022 · 48 minutes
Diaspora Dance Mixtape, Vol. 1

Community Producer Rochelle Kwan (a.k.a. YiuYiu) invites three of her favorite DJs to curate our first annual mixtape — and... more

21 Dec 2021 · 1 hour, 3 minutes
Self Evident: Asian America's Stories
Before Me, Part 1: Firstborn
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When I became a parent, my mom flew across the country to help me take care of my firstborn child. And opened... more