Introspectives

Claire asks Taylor about her childhood, growing up with beauty and love messages, beauty icons, love, dating, and more. Taylor Roh (she/her) is a Korean-American musical theatre artist, theatre maker, guitarist, songwriter, and playwright. Originally born in Busan, South Korea, she has recently relocated from Seoul to Glasgow, Scotland to pursue an MLitt in Theatre Studies at University of Glasgow...

Amy and Anthony return to talk with Claire and Adrienne about plastic surgery, gender roles, male body image, and more. Listen to Part One of this topic with Amy and Anthony! Season 5 Episode 13 "I Think Women Are Just Deep": https://www.introspectives.uk/ds5-e13-anthony-and-amy/ Listen and enjoy! To receive the latest content, subscribe on wherever you listen to podcasts and follow us on Twitter...

Sabrina, Sadye, and Claire  talk about conscious consumption of media, really listening as allies, colorism, and more. Listen and enjoy! To receive the latest content, subscribe on wherever you listen to podcasts and follow us on Twitter and Instagram at @_introspectives. Check out our website for articles and more: www.introspectives.uk FYI swears are not bleeped in this episode. Artwork by...

Adrienne, Claire, Sabrina, Sadye, and Sehrish talk about societal pressures on women, the "ticking" body clock, the biological clock, postpartum, judgments on the female body, post-pregnancy care and pregnancy itself. Listen and enjoy! To receive the latest content, subscribe on wherever you listen to podcasts and follow us on Twitter and Instagram at @_introspectives. Check out our website for ar...

Adrienne and Heather share their mixed race identity experiences, cases of imposter syndrome, navigating through multiple cultures, and how they are perceived by others. Check out Heather's other episode with us, S5 E14: (Re)Interpreting Society's Messages ! https://www.introspectives.uk/ds5-e14-heather/ Listen and enjoy! To receive the latest content, subscribe on wherever you listen to podcasts...

It’s May, which means it’s Asian Pacific American Heritage Month. Or APPI month, however you want to call it. But it’s a month to celebrate all Asians, honor Asian excellence, and remember the Asian diaspora. This is not limited to just Asian or East Asian Americans. We really struggled to capture the emotions we have around the events of the past few months specifically and the hidden women we wa...

Adrienne, Claire, Enja, Hazel, Natalie, Sabrina, and Sehrish talk about Snowpiercer (the series), I May Destroy You and Black Earth Rising . Questions discussed: 1. Are there any previous conceptions/perspectives you had that you feel were changed after watching these shows? 2. How diverse were the representations of people of color? Do you feel that the media perpetuated any harmful stereotypes?...

Adrienne and Claire talk about white allies, the Asian reckoning, APAHM month, AAPI feelings, and POC racism. Listen and enjoy! To receive the latest content, subscribe on wherever you listen to podcasts and follow us on Twitter and Instagram at @_introspectives . Check out our website for articles and more: www.introspectives.uk Artwork by Adrienne. FYI: swears in this episode that are not bleepe...

Claire talks to Adrienne about beauty, love, belonging and identity while taking a walk down memory lane. Listen and enjoy! To receive the latest content, subscribe on wherever you listen to podcasts and follow us on Twitter and Instagram at @_introspectives. Check out our website for articles and more: www.introspectives.uk Artwork by Sabrina. FYI: swears in this episode that are not bleeped.

Claire's tribute to her Umma.  Listen and enjoy! To receive the latest content, subscribe on wherever you listen to podcasts and follow us on Twitter and Instagram at @_introspectives. Check out our website for articles and more: www.introspectives.uk Artwork by Sabrina.

Adrienne talks to Claire about her layered perceptions of beauty, love, identity, belonging, language, influences, and more. Listen and enjoy! To receive the latest content, subscribe on wherever you listen to podcasts and follow us on Twitter and Instagram at @_introspectives. Check out our website for articles and more: www.introspectives.uk Artwork by Sabrina. FYI: swears in this episode that a...

Sabrina and Claire talk to Heather about how she grew up, moving around, beauty and love, mental health, and racial equality. Heather is a second-generation Filipino American living in Greater London.  Moving around the U.S. as a military brat inspired her love of travel.  While she has too many favourite places, revisiting Shanghai is at the top of her list.  Heather has worked in...

Amy and Anthony return to join Claire and Sabrina about asking too many (deep questions) on first dates, disclosing disabilities when dating, being misled, and the stereotype of the "crazy ex." Navigating Dating, Disability, and Disclosure : https://rootedinrights.org/navigating-dating-disability-and-disclosure/ Listen to Amy's episode if you haven't already: Drones and Disability Justice https://...

Claire, Sabrina, and Sehrish (featuring Jibran!) have a catch-up and talk about toys, growing up, rants, work, the pandemic, TV shows, and more. Listen and enjoy! To receive the latest content, subscribe on wherever you listen to podcasts and follow us on Twitter and Instagram at @_introspectives. Check out our website for articles and more: www.introspectives.uk Artwork by Sabrina.

Sehrish tells Claire about her childhood in Germany, family love, perceptions of beauty, being a mother, fighting stereotypes, and more. Listen now! Listen and enjoy! To receive the latest content, subscribe on wherever you listen to podcasts and follow us on Twitter and Instagram at @_introspectives. Check out our website for articles and more: www.introspectives.uk Artwork by Sabrina.

Amy returns to talk to Adrienne, Claire, and Sabrina about perceptions of beauty, dating (obviously), and more. In particular, bad dating stories, how ableism has never been included in beauty conversations, and getting catfished. You should read the article we discuss in the episode : https://leavingevidence.wordpress.com/2011/08/22/moving-toward-the-ugly-a-politic-beyond-desirability/ Check out...

Emily returns to talk to Adrienne and Claire about petiteness, perceptions of submissive Asian (American) women, health, dating, beauty, and more. Emily is a graduate student studying molecular biology at Brown University, but more importantly, is dog mom to the cutest fluff-potato. Born and raised in New England, she likes to hike the White Mountains, explore quaint coastal towns, and drink iced...

Adrienne and Claire reflect on their upcoming decade birthday, stroll down memory lane, and discuss the future. Listen and enjoy! To receive the latest content, subscribe on wherever you listen to podcasts and follow us on Twitter and Instagram at @_introspectives . Check out our website for articles and more: www.introspectives.uk Artwork by Adrienne. FYI: swears in this episode that are not blee...

Adrienne and Claire talk to Emily about beauty and love through an Asian American lens: role models, definition of beauty, dating as an Asian woman, and more. Emily is a graduate student studying molecular biology at Brown University, but more importantly, is dog mom to the cutest fluff-potato. Born and raised in New England, she likes to hike the White Mountains, explore quaint coastal towns, and...

Anthony is back to talk to Adrienne, Claire, and Sabrina about dating and love. What are our dealbreakers? What did we think of dating when we were younger versus now? This was another hilarious episode and we hope you enjoy it. If you haven't listened to our feature with Anthony, do it now:  Season 4 Episode 4- "Three Years Ahead of My Time" https://www.introspectives.uk/s4-e4-three-years-ah...

Adrienne and Claire chat about what it means to be anti-racist, current Asian American hate crimes, solidarity within the POC community, feel good stories featuring Gemma Chan, and Iron Fists and Kung-fu Kicks. Iron Fists and Kung Fu Kicks https://www.netflix.com/gb/title/80188823 Stop Asian American hate! https://www.instagram.com/p/CLXHA2rsi4J/?igshid=1rgx8gfk6m2nl Gemma Chan and Beauty Truths h...

Adrienne, Claire, and Sabrina talk to Anthony about his perspective on beauty and love. What is male self-care? Why are gender expectations and perceptions so different? Who is a "man's man?" Anthony kindly agreed to be the voice of all men for this episode (joking!). You can't hear us laughing in the background since we muted our mics, but this was a fun episode. If you haven't listened to our fe...

Natalie chats to Claire and Adrienne about family, moving as a kid, living in different countries (USA, UK, Korea, Spain), Covid times, long distance relationships, and more. Natalie is a recent transplant, having arrived in the UK from the States a month ago. After graduating with a Bachelor's of Music in audio engineering, she began teaching English abroad. After seven years in South Korea and S...

Adrienne, Claire, Enja, Hazel, and Sabrina talk about the Netflix shows Bridgerton https://www.netflix.com/gb/title/80232398 and Velvet https://www.netflix.com/gb/title/80018046#:~:text=2014%7CTV%2D14%20%7C4,%C3%81ngel%20Silvestre%2C%20Aitana%20S%C3%A1nchez%2DGij%C3%B3n, the book The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/51791252-the-vanishing-half, and the podcast epi...

Sadye shares her pregnancy journey and the complicated conversations that she hadn't expected. She also tells us about her beauty and love role models and self-care rituals that have helped during the pandemic. Don't miss out on this episode! Sadye is a prior elementary school teacher and coach. After earning her master’s degree in Education Policy and Management from the Harvard Graduate Sch...