An organizer with this grassroots collective of Asian sex workers & allies talks about the Atlanta killings and much more.

We talk to Princeton Professor Naomi Murakawa about police reform, hate crimes, and Asian American abolitionism.

Hello! This is Jay. This week, we have my conversation with sociologist, writer, and data artist Tamara K. Nopper. She’s been an invaluable resource for me for years now — if I ever actually sound...

Jewish Currents and Time to Say Goodbye discuss the possibilities of diasporic internationalism against the backdrop of US imperial decline.

Why Jay recently found himself in a feud with Asian-American professors. And one professor's failed attempt to erase a terrible history of WWII.

What a week... we take a breath and try to analyze the many responses to the eight murders in Georgia.

Andy talks with Wen Liu and Brian Hioe (New Bloom) about Chinese invasion fears, the western left, and the relationship between Asian and Asian American politics (if there is any)?

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Hello! Special guest this week. Ocean Vuong, a poet, novelist, essayist, and the author of On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous. Ocean has won the Whiting Award, the T.S. Eliot Prize, and was recently a...

Tammy interviews Professor Kori A. Graves about her 2020 book on how Black Americans came to adopt Black Korean children during and after the Korean War.

Hello, Today we have something a bit different for you. TTSG goes a bit Melvyn Bragg with a history episode about Bay Area Filipino DJ culture. Our guest today is Oliver Wang, professor of sociology...

Credit: Carolyn Drake Hello from the greater Sea-Tac area! Andy and Tammy here with a bonus episode, interviewing Darren Byler, a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Colorado and an expert...

A long but focused discussion this week—on two new essays that attempt to write recent history.

Interview with Dr. Margo Okazawa-Rey of the International Women’s Network against Militarism and the 1970s Black feminist Combahee River Collective

This week, we unpack the idea of court packing, look for common cause with working-class whites, and ask what’s up with the Taiwanese military.

Prof. Adolph Reed Jr. speaks with Andy about his new book *The South*; criticisms of neoliberal ('race first') antiracism; and locating racial ideology within histories of class rule.

Andy talks with historian Gabe Winant about his new book, "The Last Shift." Topics include: the history of capitalism and neoliberalism, the socialist movement today, and the "PMC."

Hello! We’re very excited to have Pulitzer Prize winner and Macarthur Genius Grant recipient Viet Thanh Nguyen on the show. There was a lot to discuss and a lengthy conversation that I (Jay) found...

This week: TTSG friend Hua Hsu, who just wrote an excellent New Yorker story: “Are Asian Americans the Last Undecided Voters?” Plus news from Vietnam.

Andy in conversation with Prof. Mae Ngai, historian at Columbia University, about her new book 'The Chinese Question.'

Julian calls in from Guam to talk about his new book, The Properties of Perpetual Light, as well as his work as a lawyer and activist on climate change and indigenous people's self-determination.

Hello! Today’s subscriber episode is a wide-ranging conversation Asad Haider, one of the founding editors of Viewpoint Magazine and the author of Mistaken Identity: Race and Class in the Age of...

This week, we bring you a dissection of the Reply All saga, thoughts on "Minari," and answers to your burning queries!

We welcome a friend of the show, Tommy Craggs, enterprise editor at Mother Jones magazine. Tommy has an excellent new piece out on the culture-war stalemate. Plus, a look back (and forward) at...

Michelle Zauner aka Japanese Breakfast talked to us about her memoir, Crying in H Mart; her forthcoming album, Jubilee; and much more.

Hello! This week, your intrepid hosts had the pleasure to speak with journalist Daniel Denvir and his podcast “The Dig,” with Jacobin Radio. Daniel engaged us on a number of topics we’ve touched upon...

This week, we welcome a special guest to talk about the immigrant rights movement and immigration policy. Plus, Andy and Tammy channel Jay Energy and answer listener questions.

Hello from the kindest group chat! We talk Jay's new book, bad and badder art friends, and a composer in deep trouble.

Chelsea Szendi Schieder, historian of Japan at Aoyama Gakuin University on fact-checking Comfort Women denialism, Japanese history, and Japanese society

A bonus deep-dive episode into the culture and politics of Big Tech and Silicon Valley! Today Andy chats with the writer Wendy Liu (no relation) about her recent book, Abolish Silicon Valley. A...

The podsquad reunites to talk Asian journos in Oman and the story that just gets worse and worse. Plus, an important announcement from Andy.

Andy here, speaking only for myself, with a few reflections on the past week. Admittedly, I had not taken the comparisons between Trump and "fascism" too seriously, but Wednesday was a bit of a...

Academic-activist Jake Werner on the US's new love of infrastructure and industry, crises in neoliberalism, and analyzing the US-China conflict from a "progressive internationalist" perspective.

Hello! This week we talked with Joshua Leifer, an editor at Jewish Currents, about the ongoing military violence against Palestinian communities in Gaza this past month (for those keeping track, Josh...

We talk some oldish politics (January, the 1930s...) and welcome back our first repeat guest, Hua Hsu, to dig into classic Asian-American cinema.

We discuss the politics and human impact of the week's harrowing events

In this episode, Tammy gabs with her old friend Radhika Natarajan, a professor of history at Reed College and low-key brilliant TV critic. Radhika talks about her childhood in Ohio, her parents’...

Warning: Hot takes and Marxist analysis of spoilers ahead. Don’t listen until you’ve watched it all.

Listen now | Greetings from Jay’s 95-degree basement! This week, we give our takes on Jessica Krug, the historian caught assuming a series of brown and Black identities; respond to a provocation by...

Andy and Tammy talk with Prof. Esmat Elhalaby about his family and the Palestinian diaspora, US news coverage of the attacks in Gaza, + his recent essay on the late Edward Said

We talk An San, feminism, and misogyny. Plus, the terrifying end of the US eviction moratorium and politics as usual.

你好 from cyberspace! This week, Jay scuba dived the depths of Asian American TikTok to engage Andy and Tammy in a critique of gendered home-cooking videos. How far have we really come? We then get a...

It’s just the three of us this week, talking about the union defeat in Bessemer, Alabama, labor history, and the future of organizing in an Amazon economy.

We talk about the NYC mayoral race, basketball, and theatre during the pandemic with our friend, Vinson Cunningham, a theatre critic at The New Yorker.

This week: literal housekeeping, “students of color” and “students of poverty,” coronavirus nightmares, how not to expect too much from Biden, and a Southeast Asian trade deal.

This week, fabulous guest Darren Byler. Plus, three questions from our very smart listeners.

Hello, A special episode this week with filmmaker Ursula Liang about her new film Down a Dark Stairwell. It’s out now on PBS and we hope everyone who listens to the show watches this nuanced,...

An interview with Julie Anderson, a primary-care nurse and unionist in Montana

Hello from the ledge of cancellation! We have some heady stuff for you this week—on school segregation, the perennial struggle between historians and journalists, and religiosity in Asian America....

Biden may have won, but the “battle for the soul of the nation” will only intensify.

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A special IRL episode, recorded in Portland, Oregon, brimming with folk and rock, old and new

The gang’s back together, with geographic and pandemic updates, a look at COVID-19 deaths among registered nurses, and a dive into Justin Lin's classic film.

This week’s theme, courtesy of Tony Soprano: “Is the U.S. over?”

The critic and friend of the pod joins us to discuss a hot film Jay did not fast-forward through

The activist and author explains how health communism can save us from extractive abandonment

Hello from the TTSG drop-out commune! This week, a longer-than-we-intended show about the TikTok saga, Chinese/US hegemony, and nationalist traps. We also respond to a few of your brilliant emails...

Unlocked episode from 5.7. Andy talks with Prof. Iyko Day about her 2016 book Alien Capital, which theorizes anti-Asian racism and the link between Asian migrants and capital.

Toronto-based Asian and migrant sex worker support network. Butterfly hosts workshops, trainings, networking opportunities, conducts outreach and advocacy work.

Tammy and Andy grill Jay about his new book, The Loneliest Americans!

This week, a Netflix K-drama, success and failure in leftist experiments, and “slouchy Asian” fashion.

Hello from behind the Great Firewall! As summer winds down and election season begins to heat up, we reflect on the political prospects of Asian America and the mess that is the Democratic Party. We...

This week: working women and neoliberalism, anti-Asian violence in Oakland, and different strains of Asians.

This week, before digging into listener mail, we talk Prez politics, AOC vs. the Dems, and a weirdly on-point rant by Tucker Carlson.

Per Andy's request, the podsquad talks Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother—and argues about everything in it. And Jay and Tammy say farewell to the third musketeer.

We promote the rights, health, and safety of im/migrant women engaged in indoor sex work through front-line service and systemic advocacy.

Jay, Andy, and Tammy talk about Tiananmen vigils in Hong Kong and monstrous right-wing attacks on "wokeness" in the U.S.

Hello! Special unlocked bonus Patreon episode today with entrepreneur, TikTok cook, and hip-hop head Jaeki Cho. He and Jay talk about Jaeki’s quick rise to TikTok fame via his Korean cooking videos,...

Hello! This week we have another part of what can now be called a series on the AAPI voter with our guest Taeku Lee, a professor of law and political science at UC Berkeley and the author of several...

How did Bill Gates and Big Pharma get to dictate the rules of global health, to murderous consequence? Plus, a fun linguistic romp through Asian accents.