Asian Bitches Down Under

By Helen Stenbeck

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Roughly one in 10 Aussies come from somewhere in Asia, yet when you look at our representation on TV, film, radio and literature, you’d think we were completely non-existent. What do you do when the world doesn’t give you the space to be heard? You make your own space. Each week, sisters and Sydney locals Helen Stenbeck and Jessie Tu give searing intersectional feminist critiques on social and cultural issues relevant to those living in Australia and abroad. Join us as we traverse the complex intersectionality of gender, race and culture. 

Episode Date
Females' pain, Robot Dreams, Anatomy of A Fall
Apr 19, 2024
Literary appropriation is nothing new?
Apr 12, 2024
Qing-Ming: Tomb Sweeping or another excuse to eat good food?!
Apr 05, 2024
Some men are just pure evil | Losing one's language
Mar 22, 2024
American Fiction | End Credits
Mar 15, 2024
Be your own cheerleader.feat Neelu Kaur
Mar 13, 2024
Opportunities in theatre production. feat. Natalie Low
Feb 28, 2024
Who Will Stop the Rain | Invisible Nation
Feb 23, 2024
Window Shopping | Revisting PAST LIVES | Oscars Nominations
Feb 16, 2024
Using 'woke agenda' to justify racist comments?
Feb 01, 2024
Return to the motherland | Taiwan's 2024 election | Nyad
Jan 18, 2024
How history and movie perpetuates the male dominance
Dec 21, 2023
Toys as cultural representations. feat. Samantha Ong (Joeydolls)
Dec 13, 2023
Avant Gardey, A Pail of Oysters and the implication of Taiwan's history
Dec 07, 2023
Handling kids' emotion, TwoSet Violin, Cat Person
Nov 30, 2023
Archive: Divorce and Marriage
Nov 23, 2023
Quiz Lady
Nov 09, 2023
I don't, Joyride, The Women In Me, Cooking and Gender Equality
Nov 02, 2023
Archive: Sexual Empowerment
Oct 26, 2023
Archive: Shame
Oct 19, 2023
Back from hiatus
Oct 12, 2023
Archive: Food culture, appropriation or appreciation?
Sep 29, 2023
Working in a safe space with open communication is important for BIPOC artists. feat. Kaori Maeda-Judge
Sep 20, 2023
Archive: Asians in Hollywood
Sep 19, 2023
Archive: White Worshipping
Sep 18, 2023
It takes practices to express love and setting boundaries. Feat. Amy Yip
Sep 07, 2023
Archive: Asian immigrants and mental health
Aug 31, 2023
Archive: Do Asian Females have White Fever
Aug 24, 2023
Performing arts and consent. feat. Merlynn Tong
Aug 17, 2023
Chungking Express | Ghost Girl, Banana | Postpartum care in Taiwan. Pt.2
Aug 10, 2023
Chungking Express | Ghost Girl, Banana | Postpartum care in Taiwan. Pt.1
Aug 10, 2023
Yellowface | Miss Peony | Barbie | Welcome to sex pt.2
Jul 27, 2023
Yellowface | Miss Peony | Barbie | Welcome to sex pt.1
Jul 27, 2023
Organising feeling through art-making. feat. EJ Son & Min Wong
Jul 20, 2023
2023 Taiwan Film Festival In Australia
Jul 13, 2023
Millennium Actress | Spider-Verse | Confidence in creativity
Jul 06, 2023
Past Lives | Mulan | White People Food
Jun 30, 2023
Inclusivity for both the artists and audiences. feat. Mabel Li & Shirong Wu
Jun 27, 2023
Translation | A Little Life | You've Hurt My Feelings | Wavemakers |Gaga | Food for Culture Day
Jun 22, 2023
Veep | American Born Chinese | Colour Consultation | Beige Flag
Jun 08, 2023
We are BACK!
Jun 01, 2023
More than just surface representation.feat. Chaya Ocampo
May 15, 2023
Yay for resting bitch face. feat. He Huang
May 11, 2023
Sharp and anxious on stage. feat. Guneet Kaur
May 11, 2023
Being a police officer as an Asian in Australia.feat. Zoe Lin
Apr 27, 2023
Martial art and diversity in films. Feat. Maria Tran
Apr 20, 2023
Wellmania | BEEF is the TV of 2023
Apr 13, 2023
What's next for women in films/media? | Tempting Hearts | Resilience
Apr 10, 2023
Reality and perception of horror films | Lottery and divorce
Mar 30, 2023
The irony of 'Harmony Day' | Happiest Nations on earth
Mar 23, 2023
Self confidece | fear of male strangers | Maid's Cafe
Mar 16, 2023
BSB Concert, How to feed a dictator, Oscar Predication
Mar 09, 2023
Wishes for IWD
Mar 02, 2023
"Two literary controversies”: Roald Dahl and Hazel Edwards
Feb 23, 2023
South Korean Women on strike against 'baby-making' | Declining marriage rate in China | Prasing male partners on the bare minimum
Feb 16, 2023
Valentines Day vs Galentines Day and the rom coms that ruined us
Feb 09, 2023
Racial implications with artwork critics | Marie Kondo | A Broadcast Coup | The Menu
Feb 02, 2023
What's love got to do with it | Stories of Sahara | Lucky Girl Syndrome
Jan 26, 2023
Lunar New Year, 2023: Year of Rabbit | Babylon | Darjeeling Ltd
Jan 19, 2023
Welcome to 2023 | Banshees, Onions and Trust | Golden Globes 2023
Jan 12, 2023
Harry&Meghan | Nepo Baby | Best TVs and Films of 2022
Dec 22, 2022
Creativity writing as a path of self-discovery. Feat. Ghost Town author Kevin Chen 陳思宏
Dec 19, 2022
Theatres | The power of reviews
Dec 15, 2022
Be yourself and be together. FEAT. Australia and New Zealand Tongzhi Rainbow Alliance: Cedric and Cathy
Dec 13, 2022
ABDU's Books of 2022 | Friendship and love
Dec 08, 2022
High school drama class fostered my love for acting. feat. Aileen Huynh
Dec 06, 2022
Festivities | Protest in China | First Love
Dec 01, 2022
Drive My Car | Cold Enough for Snow | Weaponised Incompetence
Nov 24, 2022
Misogynistic OpEd encouraging women to get married and don’t get an education
Nov 17, 2022
Contemporary performance maker and transformative justice advocate. Feat. Nithya Nagarajan
Nov 14, 2022
Were your parents good parents?
Nov 10, 2022
Privilege in parenting | Fisk | Itaewon | Netball Australia
Nov 03, 2022
Love Sermon | Geisha culture | The Twelve
Oct 27, 2022
Redirection in your life, do what makes you happy. Feat. J'Ma
Oct 25, 2022
The watcher | Desi Girl | Anna May Wong
Oct 21, 2022
Finding our identity with visual arts. Feat. Dr Cindy Yuen-Zhe Chen
Oct 10, 2022
Women in Taipei
Oct 06, 2022
horror + trauma, racial passing, white males' humbleness
Sep 29, 2022
Learning Taiwanese Mandarin. Feat. Danyo Pang
Sep 22, 2022
Chain Play. Feat. Sammy Jing & Natania McLeod Roberts
Sep 15, 2022
Royal family, the pinnacle of whiteness?
Sep 15, 2022
Would you like a box of mooncakes with your Gucci bag?
Sep 08, 2022
Middle-age women's trope on TV and films
Sep 01, 2022
Dating
Aug 23, 2022
Ghost Month Activities: Qiang-Gu, Water Lanterns, and Zhong Kuo
Aug 16, 2022
Diversification in your reading: Books giveaway
Aug 11, 2022
Ghost Month and Jiang-Shi, the hopping zombie
Aug 04, 2022
Films, books and TVs | Diversity in Parliament
Jul 28, 2022
Cocercive Control | Inequity in Stem Cell Donors | Taiwan Film Fest in Aus 2022
Jul 21, 2022
Racial Politics of Swimming | Sydney, the unfriendly city
Jul 14, 2022
Roe V Wade | Abortion in Asian & Australia
Jun 30, 2022
Act Your Age Campagin
Jun 23, 2022
Rebel Wilson | Mochi Muffin
Jun 16, 2022
Night Sky, From, Joan, Mimi's Utopia
Jun 13, 2022
Why "Asian Salad"???
Jun 02, 2022
Nostalgic food and expressing our own identity. Feat. Frankie Gaw
May 30, 2022
Ate Lovia, Tokyo Vice, and other cultural consumptions
May 26, 2022
Exercise | Do men still want 1950's housewives?
May 19, 2022
Fashion Week | Representation Economy
May 12, 2022
Conversation on Adoption. Part 2. Transracial/Intercountry Adoptions
May 05, 2022
Conversation on adoption. Part 1
Apr 28, 2022
Creativity and Diversity in Music | Feat. Matt Hsu's Obscure Orchestra
Apr 26, 2022
Epic - Everything Everywhere All At Once
Apr 21, 2022
"Huh? That was Mandarin?" How Hollywood butchers foreign languages
Apr 14, 2022
Writing, Drawing and the concept of Fame - Feat. Kanako Okiron
Apr 11, 2022
Racism on TV | A Year after Atlanta Shooting
Apr 07, 2022
Send Tree Pay - You'd know if you understand Taiwanese
Mar 31, 2022
Diversity in books | Feat. Marina & Xuan - Amplify Bookstore
Mar 31, 2022
Mental Load | Emotional Labour
Mar 24, 2022
Jane Campion | Turning Red
Mar 17, 2022
IWD 2022 | Racism in Opera
Mar 13, 2022
Cake, bread, cookies, and all things sweet. Feat Kat Lieu - Subtle Asian Baking
Mar 10, 2022
Bestiary | Weekend Away | Redundant or Misused English Words for Foreign Foods
Feb 24, 2022
Asian Diaspora's Mental Health | Feat. Asami Koike from Shapes and Sounds
Feb 17, 2022
Asian Queer Literature | Winter Olympics
Feb 17, 2022
Valentines Day: What is love? | Kozziecom: feat. Shona Yang
Feb 10, 2022
Chinese Animal Zodiac Part.2 | Personality traits and wage gap
Feb 03, 2022
Chinese Animal Zodiacs.Part1 | Create a platform for your own identity. feat. Sophie Teo & Dominique Purdue
Jan 26, 2022
Corporate Colonisation of Lunar New Year
Jan 20, 2022
Visibility of Asian Actors on Stage: Feat. Susanna Pang + Enoch Li
Jan 16, 2022
Hello 2022 | Women in News
Jan 06, 2022
Farewell 2021
Dec 24, 2021
Black and Asian Fishing
Dec 16, 2021
Whiteness and moral superiority
Dec 09, 2021
Chaotic emotions with violence against women
Dec 02, 2021
Bonus: Slanted Theatre. Ft. Natalie Low & Sabrina Chan D’Angelo
Nov 25, 2021
Restaurants named after grandmothers | Affirmative Consent
Nov 25, 2021
Obsession with youthfulness | Ageing | ft. Yumi Lee
Nov 18, 2021
Love Hard
Nov 11, 2021
Feeling sluggish | Dating | Michelle Wu
Nov 04, 2021
Princess Mako
Oct 28, 2021
Perrottet | Fragile Heart
Oct 21, 2021
Therapy Tuesday: Soothing
Oct 18, 2021
Shang-Chi | Bad Art Friend | Antivax
Oct 14, 2021
Revisit Squid Game | Girlboss
Oct 07, 2021
Therapy Tuesday: Ashamed
Oct 04, 2021
Squid Game | Missing White Women Syndrome
Sep 30, 2021
Therapy Tuesday: Hampered?
Sep 27, 2021
Therapy Tuesday: Fail
Sep 20, 2021
Met Gala
Sep 16, 2021
Therapy Tuesday: Forgive
Sep 13, 2021
Do we need more empathy for the wealthy white people?| Why Women are Angry
Sep 09, 2021
Therapy Tuesday: Self-hatred features
Sep 06, 2021
Who gets to tell what story?
Sep 02, 2021
Therapy Tuesday: Authority
Aug 30, 2021
The Chair | For the love of Taiwanese Food
Aug 26, 2021
Live streamers
Aug 19, 2021
Wokefish, is it a sea creature?
Aug 12, 2021
POC Therapists
Aug 05, 2021
Kuo Hsing Chun | Congee Appropriation
Jul 29, 2021
Never Have I Ever Season 2 | Sexism in The Olympics
Jul 22, 2021
Multilingual | Girlhood
Jul 16, 2021
Taiwan Film Festival In Australia | Taiwanese Bookshelves
Jul 08, 2021
Vaccine privileges | Cultural Appropriation in Media
Jul 08, 2021
Lockdown Catch Up | Exploitation of Migrant Workers
Jul 04, 2021
Australian Club | Art of Apology 2021
Jun 18, 2021
Australia Talk Survey | Choosing to be child-less
Jun 10, 2021
Remembering Tiananmen Square Massacre
Jun 03, 2021
Naomi Osaka | Women and Casual Sex | God for the LGBTQI+
Jun 03, 2021
White-centric ads
May 27, 2021
Olympics | Asians in Australian Sports| Fatbulous Me
May 19, 2021
Jessie: My Favourite Five Films
May 12, 2021
Gates' Divorce|Parenthood
May 07, 2021
Sydney Writers Festival | Ask Us Anything
May 06, 2021
Awards | Stop Asian Hate Vigil in Sydney | Asians in ANZAC
Apr 29, 2021
Milkshake Consent | Forced Labour in Xinjiang and Uyghur people
Apr 21, 2021
Thunder Force | Breasts and Eggs | Melbourne or Sydney?
Apr 14, 2021
Wu Ming-Yi|Emotional Female|Grave Sweeping Qing Ming Festival
Apr 07, 2021
Scomo|Dark MOFO|SJP|Klara and the Sun|College Admission Scandal (Part 2)
Mar 24, 2021
ScoMo|Dark MOFO|SJP|Klara and the Sun|College Admission Scandal (Part 1)
Mar 24, 2021
March4Justice | The Battle of Surnames
Mar 17, 2021
Necessity of IWD 2021
Mar 10, 2021
All the boys I've loved before
Mar 04, 2021
Consent | Native Language Day:Taigi
Feb 24, 2021
Ariel Levy, Glennon Dolye, and the expensive, exclusive brand of white, skinny feminists
Feb 17, 2021
Lunar New Year 2021
Feb 10, 2021
Harmless Hiker | Stop the subtle victim blames - Cheng Ili 鄭家純
Feb 10, 2021
Toxic self deprecation of body image
Feb 03, 2021
Ghosting
Jan 27, 2021
Hot Privilege | Invasion Day
Jan 21, 2021
Misogynistic Guideline for Pregnant Women in South Korea | Transphobic Statement from the Council
Jan 13, 2021
Best of 2020?!
Dec 24, 2020
Holiday Blues
Dec 17, 2020
What!? More appropriations?!
Dec 09, 2020
Is the International Day of People with Disability useful?
Dec 02, 2020
Gifting Cultures
Nov 29, 2020
Interracial & Intercultural Relationships
Nov 25, 2020
Alpha Beta Omega
Nov 18, 2020
The racist whiteness of CottageCore
Nov 12, 2020
Ageism in Hollywood
Nov 04, 2020
Language discrimination
Oct 28, 2020
Asexuality|Polyamory
Oct 21, 2020
“The only tolerable suburb in Sydney” | Newtown
Oct 15, 2020
Alternative Diets?
Oct 07, 2020
Chinese Poets of the Tang Dynasty
Oct 01, 2020
Media's blur focus of sexual scandals
Sep 23, 2020
The Home Edit
Sep 16, 2020
BONUS | Tokyo Girl
Sep 12, 2020
Sexual Empowerment
Sep 09, 2020
Fathers' Day
Sep 02, 2020
Shame
Aug 26, 2020
Work It | Benevolent Sexism
Aug 19, 2020
Food culture, appropriation or appreciation?
Aug 13, 2020
#challengeaccepted
Aug 06, 2020
COON, Tackling Racism in Australia
Jul 29, 2020
Leftover Women | Victorious Women
Jul 22, 2020
Taiwan Film Festival in Australia & Demolition Man
Jul 16, 2020
Invisible work of being a woman
Jul 08, 2020
Older men and younger women
Jul 04, 2020
Dyson Heydon and the bad shit some male judges do
Jun 25, 2020
Adultery Laws in Taiwan
Jun 18, 2020
Bonus | The Neighbor's Window
Jun 12, 2020
White male dominance in photojournalism
Jun 10, 2020
Divorce and Marriage
Jun 03, 2020
Asians in Hollywood
May 29, 2020
White Worshipping
May 20, 2020
We're anti-Mother's Day. Here's why
May 14, 2020
Male politicians and the sexist shit they say
May 06, 2020
Kim Ji-Young, Born 1982
Apr 29, 2020
Asian immigrants and mental health
Apr 26, 2020
Tigertail
Apr 15, 2020
Do Asian Females have White Fever?
Apr 10, 2020
Trade Show Models in Taiwan
Apr 10, 2020