Titas and Tea | Filipino-Australian podcast
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Titas and Tea is a podcast that focuses on the experiences of the Filipino-Australian diaspora. It explores Filipino/a/x arts, culture, and politics. Each episode looks at the complexities of Filipino identity and history, and how members of the community make art, heal, and decolonise in response. Your host is Gloria Demillo, bringing you the tsaa with the kapamilya.
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Oct 7, 2020
12. There's a mumu over there | Annie Brockenhuus-Schack (ft. her Mum)
Annie Brockenhuus-Schack is an emerging creative producer and curator of Filipina and European heritage working on unceded Gadigal land. Working across multiple art forms, her practice engages with themes surrounding identity development and postcolonial models of creativity and collaboration.
We talk about:
1. Annie's experience in theatre, acting and producing creative works
2. Filipinx creation stories and the difficulties of interpreting from a modern context
3. Filipinx superstitions with her mum
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Sep 29, 2020
11. Who's got bamboo? | Rizcel Gagawanan
Rizcel Gagawanan is a Filipina-Australian actor, writer, and producer living and working on unceded Gadigal land. After leaving her accounting job, her family, and her home on unceded Turrbal land, Rizcel spent the past few years performing on both stage and screen. Her most notable work includes Carpark Clubbing, Duckpond, Undertaking, and Blood Wedding.
We talk about:
1. Rizcel’s move into acting from being an accountant at a Big 4 firm
2. The hard wins of Filipinx representation in Australian screen
3. Filipinx dance and Saturday Filipinx school in Brisbane
4. The importance of shared culture and traditions through the body
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Sep 22, 2020
10. Discovering Filipinx Film | Chanel Biala
Chanel Biala is a Filipina videographer and aspiring filmmaker from Western Sydney. She is passionate about film and working with the Western Sydney community.
We talk about:
1. Chanel making films in highschool
2. Chanel's top picks for films her experiences in film school
3. We talk about indie Filipino films, Asian horror films, and our want for more Filipinx people in film and on screen.
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Sep 15, 2020
9. Tattooing and belonging in diaspora | Matcho Cassidy
Matcho Cassidy is a conceptual writer and performance poet, who explores themes that are heart wrenching, brain stimulating and thought provoking; such as Identity, Diaspora, Passion, Reincarnation, Death, Love and Romance.
We talk about:
1. Tito Matcho talks about how he fell into poetry
2. We talk about our travels into the Kalinga region
3. Getting tattoos, tattoo history and the afterlife
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Sep 8, 2020
8. Beauty is a trap! | Miranda Aguilar
Miranda Aguilar is a queer Filipinx writer, creative producer and community arts worker. Their work includes being a lead writer and showrunner of Las Rosas, a Western Sydney telenovela webseries, producing Prone to the Drone, which premiered at last year's Sydney Film Fest, and supporting young, diverse story-tellers through the community arts and media organisation CuriousWorks.
We talk about:
1. Miranda talks about Let Me Know When you Get Home – a queer Filipinx coming of age story
2. Writing styles they like – writing for screen, plays, and games
3. We talk about how to sustain our writing practice – how to work through writers block
4. How beauty pageants are related to second wave feminism
5. The muddiness of empowerment and feminism
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Sep 1, 2020
7. Community building through virtual spaces | Eunice Andrada
Eunice Andrada is a Filipina poet, educator and organizer living on unceded Gadigal Land. Her debut poetry collection "Flood Damages" (2018) won the Anne Elder Award and was shortlisted for the Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for Poetry and the Dame Mary Gilmore Award.
We talked about:
1. Eunice’s work as a poet, activist and event organiser
2. Finding connection through virtual spaces
3. Why organisations like The Digital Sala can help us feel more connected
4. Why art and activism go hand-in-hand
5. How to have a difficult conversation with your parents about politics
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Oct 26, 2019
BONUS: demo
Something about a cervix
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Oct 26, 2019
6. Rated E for everybody
We are tired of micro-aggressions.
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Oct 25, 2019
5. Adobo has sabaw
Having honest conversations about Filipinx diaspora.
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Oct 25, 2019
4. Catfished
If you're on a dating app, please use recent photos.
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Oct 25, 2019
3. Stop dating racists
Like an onion, there are layers. Peel back the layers of fetishism and RUN.
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Oct 25, 2019
2. Mystery meat
Signed, sealed, and delivered.
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Oct 25, 2019
1. Healing in private
Mind your business and heal in private!
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