Bruha Baddies

Raised on the notion of meritocracy and that hard work leads to success, we reflect on work-from-home conditions from 2020. Does it challenge the Model Minority. If so, how? By making us negotiate whether or not we deserve to practice pausing. Guilt, being called “lazy,” and having to prove self worth through productivity may have come up for our Bruha Baddies hosts. First BB RECS in 2021: Jean Go...

Half the team of Bruha Baddies (Daniel Nero and Jean Munson) reflect on the year and the meaning of life after 2020. Close out your year with some of these truths about self discovery with your favorite magical radicals! Bruha Baddies to return on January 17! And in case the holidays are hard, lonely, or boring, feel free to listen to any and all episodes on your commute or chill time. You've neve...

Many times in our Filipinx/a/o community art is something to stray from, romanticize, or only hold value if it's lucrative. On Bruha Baddies, we want to identify folks that use it as part of an overall healing for themselves that eventually encourages others to participate in art making too. This 3 installment brings it back from Cali and Canada, to Las Vegas. Meet team Co-Zi Las Vegas (Comics and...

Many times in our Filipinx/a/o community art is something to stray from, romanticize, or only hold value if it's lucrative. On Bruha Baddies, we want to identify folks that use it as part of an overall healing for themselves that eventually encourages others to participate in art making too. Keet Geniza is our first international guest on Bruha Baddies and hails all the way from Toronto, Canada. T...

Content Warning (CW): Sexual Assault Many times in our Filipinx/a/o community art is something to stray from, romanticize, or only hold value if it's lucrative. On Bruha Baddies, we want to identify folks that use it as part of an overall healing for themselves that eventually encourages others to participate in art making too. Kayleen is a polymath with art, counseling, and academics. In her aven...

Content Warning (CW) October is many things this month: Filipino American History Month, Domestic Violence Awareness Month, and Halloween season. All these themes play apart in this conversation between Jean, Nicole, and Daniel. Join the ebb and flow of talking about trauma, taboos, and teka muna! And as always, there's recommendations of the things we love at the end of the episode that help brin...

Half the Bruha Baddies team, Jean Munson and Daniel Nero converse about their interracial relationships with white folks. Placing self love grounded in their culture first helps navigate how to build healthy relationships with partners from a different ethnicity. Experiencing cultural stigmas, racism, and difficult conversations, the co-hosts manage to find and manifest joy in straight and queer r...

On this episode, meet the woman who fondly calls Jean Munson (podcast co-founder) Bruha. Recorded during the last week of care taking her mom, Jean and Virgie (Mom) sit down to have a candid conversation about living together as adults and the role reversal of caring for each other.   If you liked or related to this episode, write us a review or letter! This was a very vulnerable recording since t...

We survived the Las Vegas summer ya'll (pandemic and all)! Tune into this catch up session between friends (Nicole, Jean, and Daniel) and the recommendations they have on new and old things (encouraged by our Listener series guest Gabi Oliveros)   Let's "FALL" into it! Listen to who's in love, who's got into accidents, and who's having health issues. Yikes! Did we mention we're surviving and laugh...

We moved the proverbial Bruha Baddies plane from Vegas, to the Bay area, and now to the Pacific Northwest in Seattle to talk to one of our long time listeners Camille Ungco. She grew up in New Jersey and is now on the pursuit of a Doctoral degree. Tune in to how we mutually cheer, learn, and listen to each other no matter the distance.

After breaking 10,000 downloads, we wanted to reflect on the folks that got us to where we are by holding space for us every time an episode airs.   In part 2 of the Listener Tribute Series we connect with long time supporter and friends, Ria Yap and Diana Calica. They are carving and creating spaces in their own lives with the work they do, hobbies they enjoy, and their friendship with each other...

After breaking 10,000 downloads, we wanted to reflect on the folks that got us to where we are by holding space for us every time an episode airs.   Our first guest is Gabe Oliveros from Las Vegas and was born in the Philippines. Learn how this guy is a fan from day 1 and gives invaluable insight about what he's gained from listening and relating with us femmes, queers, and radicals on our show.

Half the Bruha/x team showed up to talk candidly and reflectively about Education and being Educators. Rosalina Trinindad and Daniel Nero talk about experiences in their teaching careers and the full scope roles they assume in the lives of students during the pandemic and social revolution actively happening in 2020.   Tune into their external and internal conflict on managing safety, education, a...

Nicole Espinosa, Daniel Nero, and Rosalina Trinidad share their different experiences with dating as queer filipina/o/x! Here are the deets about hooking up and don't worry if you feel terrible at online dating! The co-hosts are here to help you out with their candid conversation with living in Las Vegas!   Questions that we raise: -How do the apps inform you about the queer community? -How do the...

Co-Hosts of Bruha Baddies Jean Munson, Nicole Espinosa, Rosalina Trinidad, and Daniel Nero create and discuss an intentional outline about anti-blackness that is historical, regional (by province), and domestically related to this country and to the Philippines. They honor and recognize the current work done by black folks and allies by highlighting those accounts and intellectual labor being shar...

With a pandemic, protests, and numerous stressors happening today, the Bruha/x Baddies team sits down to reflect on how sibling interactions can be volatile in the home. Listen in how communication is important in filipinx/a/o spaces especially among among our kapatids who know our long personal histories and triggers/activations.  

After taking a few months to acclimate to her career as a teacher, Rosalina Trinidad pops on to speak with co-hosts of Bruha Baddies Jean Munson, Daniel Nero, and Nicole Espinosa. They talk about the changing times for educators since they are working in different institutions: public high school, charter high school, and college. They also reminisce about life from a student lens after graduation...

Co-hosts Jean Munson, Daniel Nero, and Nicole Espinosa reminisce the impacts of microaggressions in every day interactions. Tune in more for what these moments can look like in subtle conversations and tools to navigate the energy allocated in dealing with these moments.   Recommended Professors for classes to learn more at UNLV referenced in today's episode: https://www.unlv.edu/people/gloria-won...

Co-hosts Nicole Espinosa and Daniel Nero reflect on break ups and the concept of learning to be alone, loving yourself, and moving on without timelines. Enjoy this long episode of friends reflecting on relationships.   Content warning: Intimate partner violence

Tune in on how the three co-hosts Jean Munson, Nicole Espinosa, and Daniel Nero reflect and adjust during this time indoors.

Meet the hidden friend we keep referencing to, ARMINA GUELAS. Ecofeminist, 9th Island Researcher, Neon Pacific Podcast Member of the UNLV Asian and Asian American Studies Program, and a Bunso Baddie. Find out what all this means from this meaningful person!

Even in marginalized communities and cultures, we can still find family! Joining us for this conversation is Vera Blossom as she recounts her experiences growing up from Daly City to Las Vegas as a filipinx/a.

Daniel Nero leads discussion with recommended reads for filipino/a/x and how the impact of literature affects our overall ideas about our cultural identity and activism. Grab a note pad to take down these titles!   Also we encourage you shop from the following as an alternative to corporate bookstores: Arkipelago Books East Wind Books Philippine Expressions Books And support the growth of Gantala...

Nicole Espinosa and Daniel Nero talk candidly with Jean Munson about their navigation of queer dating that can be applied to some of the forbidden questions we have about relationships in our filipino/a/x communities. How have our exes, the internet, and friends inform these decisions about dating and relating? Find out now on Bruha Baddies!   If you aren't caught up on who Nicole and Daniel are,...

Special Guest Maricar talks about jumping interests and careers to show that life is beyond the January resolutions we set for ourselves each year. As Filipina/o/x sometimes we feel too much cultural and societal pressure to be achievers. Let's disrupt that in today's episode!