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Yellow Glitter - #43 The Value of Identity and Self-Expression with Haruka Aoki

#43 The Value of Identity and Self-Expression with Haruka Aoki

10/04/23 • 60 min

Yellow Glitter

In this episode, we're joined by Haruka Aoki, a queer Japanese artist and poet-illustrator, who takes us on a journey of self-discovery and artistic expression.

In this episode, we chat about:

  • The challenges of integrating into a new community
  • The impact migration can have on identity and intersectionality
  • The power of manifestation and the importance of collaboration in the creative process
  • The importance of solidarity among marginalized communities
  • Issues of performative activism and establishing genuine allyship
  • Raising the bottom line for our underrepresented and historically marginalized communities
  • Challenges and benefits of social media
  • Haruka’s book tour and upcoming projects

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In this episode, we're joined by Haruka Aoki, a queer Japanese artist and poet-illustrator, who takes us on a journey of self-discovery and artistic expression.

In this episode, we chat about:

  • The challenges of integrating into a new community
  • The impact migration can have on identity and intersectionality
  • The power of manifestation and the importance of collaboration in the creative process
  • The importance of solidarity among marginalized communities
  • Issues of performative activism and establishing genuine allyship
  • Raising the bottom line for our underrepresented and historically marginalized communities
  • Challenges and benefits of social media
  • Haruka’s book tour and upcoming projects

You can find Haruka at:

You can follow me at:

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#42 Collective Change and Community-Centered Design with Lee-Sean Huang

This episode, we’re joined by an extra special guest, Lee-Sean Huang (he/they), a queer first-generation Taiwanese, Cantonese American designer and educator based in New York City and Providence. Lee-Sean Huang is the director of Design Content and learning at AIGA and a co-founder, creative director of Foossa, and teaches design and innovation at Parsons and SVA.

This episode, we talk about:

  • Lee-Sean's "midlife crisis" and how he is navigating a new chapter in his life
  • Navigating corporate world and academia with queer & Asian identities
  • His work with the New School and advocating for teachers
  • The role of creativity and design in social impact
  • Dismantling perfectionism, and leaning into imperfection as an invitation for social change
  • The power of community-centered design

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In this episode, we're joined by Susan Liao, a product leader and champion of liberatory leadership working at the intersection of digital innovation, social entrepreneurship and non-profit impact strategy.

In this episode, we chat about:

  • Her journey into tech and product
  • Navigating her life through agencies and startups
  • Pivoting from the corporate world to impact-driven work
  • Conforming into inequitable systems and role, and shifting away to find her voice
  • Why we adapt as marginalized communities and how to break away from upholding inequitable systems
  • What’s in Susan’s “kitchen sink”
  • The future of work, diversifying the spaces we are a part of, and creating different forms of distributing wealth
  • Challenging existing systems of work, capitalism, and labor
  • The concept of "Space, pace, and grace" - how are we acknowledging rest as part of our work?
  • Honoring the north star of the communities around us
  • Creating more intention behind our beliefs, words, and actions
  • The importance of rest and filling our cup

You can find Susan at:

Susan's first startup experience: Print All Over Me with NEW INC's Year 2 cohort About Ecocycles and strategy knotworking Improving cross-disciplinary collaboration with strategy knotworking and ecocycle planning, by Nancy White Emergent Strategy https://adriennemareebrown.net/book/emergent-strategy/ Petra Vega (She/Her/Ella), Liberatory Leadership Coach, Facilitator, Radical Social Worker and Emergent Strategist https://createmorepossibilities.com/about-me/ Ruha Benjamin https://www.ruhabenjamin.com/ Respect The Small https://www.instagram.com/p/Ct2gyOcP694/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==

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