In this first episode of Culture by Culture's Coalition Miniseries, Delia interviews founder of the Blasian March, Rohan Zhou-Lee! We discuss the importance of Black and Asian coalition, finding your role in activist spaces, creating our own narratives, being creators in different cultural spaces, book publishing, and more! How do you show up in community work?

Things discussed in this episode:

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• Activists: Bayard Rustin; BLM Founders: Alicia Garza, Patrisse Cullors, and Ayọ Tometi; Grace Lee Boggs; Kyoshi Kuromiya; Yuri Kochiyama


• Artist: Adan Palermo


• Books: *America Is in the Heart by Carlos Bulosan, *Social Change Now: A Guide for Reflection and Connection by Deepa Iyer


• 89.6% of anti-Asian incidents in 2020 were perpetrated by white individuals Source: Virulent Hate project


• Social Change Ecosystem Map and information

Guest:

This episode’s guest, is Rohan Zhou-Lee of the Blasian March! You can find them in these places:

• Blasian March - Site | Instagram | Twitter


• Rohan - Site | Instagram | Twitter

Find us online:

Site | Patreon | Instagram | Threads | Twitter

Credits:

Host, Executive Producer, Editor, Engineer: Delia
Personal Site | Personal Instagram | Personal Threads | Personal Twitter

About Culture by Culture:

Culture by Culture is a multidimensional podcast exploration into Black and Asian pop-cultural ties. Part sociology, history, and pop-culture podcast, it covers everything from deep-dives into our favorite gateway media, interviews with experts to help guide us through our historical and current cultural connections, and conversations with fellow nerds digging into our cultural identities and our pop-cultural interests.

Our mission is to understand and foster the unity that has historically existed between our cultures through our shared interests in each other’s pop-culture.