Asian Provocation

Eye-kai-year. Akhir Ali is a published author and contributor in Autostraddle, Meeting of Minds UK, iO Literary, and Women Writing Berlin Lab. She writes fiction, poetry, personal essays, and queer erotica. Her work centers contradiction, disembodiment, natural environment, and intimacy. You can also find her on Instagram @khikaichy This podcast is hosted and produced by myself, Ayoto Ataraxia . A...

范坡坡 (Fan Popo) is a documentary filmmaker, film critic, and LGBT activist from China. Fan's documentaries have focused on performance-based activism ( New Beijing, New Marriage , and The VaChina Monologues ) and coming out as LGBT in the Chinese filial context ( Chinese Closet and Papa Rainbow ). He is known for the documentary Mama Rainbow and his well-publicized legal case against the Ch...

Andrew Kung is a photographer based in Brooklyn, with roots in San Francisco. His works is aiming to normalize Asian American beauty, belonging and individuality.  In his first fashion, narrative photo book, "The All-American", he aims to redefine what It meant to be masculine and American in the context of the desexualized Asian American man.  Here you can explore Andrew Kung's wor...

Anna Natt is a dance and performance visual artist. Her work has been showing internationally in theaters as well as galleries and alternative spaces. She was trained in traditional flamenco dance in Seville, Spain from 2000-2005 before moving to Berlin, where she is curerntly based.  She is currently working on a masculinity project, and we’ve been having on going discussions around this topic, a...

This is Part 2 of the ocnversation with Johann Huang. To underestand the continuity, you'll need to head back to the last episode.  I’m very excited to share with you this conversation, as we get personal and into the backstories of growing up in Australia as a gay asian man. The stories and experiences of Asian Diaspora, which I see is not just an issue limited to one group of people, but a...

I’m very excited to share with you this conversation, as we get personal and into the backstories of growing up in Australia as a gay asian man. The stories and experiences of Asian Diaspora, which I see is not just an issue limited to one group of people, but a human experience as globalization continues. We dig into topics on shame and internalized racism, homosexuality in asian culture, the inf...

The pre-order of Far—Near's volume 3 is now available at https://far-near.media/ You can find all the references and links that we spoke about here: https://www.ayotoataraxia.com/projects/asian-provocation-4-lulu-yao-gioiello-on-far-near/ This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit ayoto.substack.com/subscribe

Same SpacesThe Same Space, the latest dance film project by Peter Leung, The Same Space is part of the Virtual Residences of de Nederlandse Dansdagen. The piece can be watched here: https://www.operaballet.nl/en/news/2020/10/online-premiere-same-space-peter-leungIn this episode of the podcast, Ayoto Ataraxia speaks with Peter Leung about creating during the time of Covid-19They discuss: masculinit...

The Asian Experience in Australia In this episode, I catch up with Tu Au in Australia, about our experiences growing up and living in Australia as Asians.  We discuss: the difficulty of Asian names while living in an Anglo country. generational experiences and difficulties that comes with being an émigré experiences and observations of racism how racism effects asian men and asian women differentl...

I have a conversation with the only asian male dom sex worker in Germany, about asian diasporic experiences, sex work, asian masculinity and ideas of home. Ron Hades’ website https://www.ronhades.com/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/ron_hades Transcript available at  http://www.ayotoataraxia.com This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus epis...