After 9/11 My Life Was Never The Same (feat. Joseph Azam, Lawyer and Co-Founder of Afghan Americans for Biden/Harris)
Feeling Asian
Youngmi Mayer & Brian Park
4.9 • 941 Ratings
🗓️ 3 February 2021
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
Joseph Azam is a lawyer who specializes in anti-corruption and ethics investigation, and one of the co-founders of Afghan Americans for Biden/Harris. Joseph details his experiences of Islamophobia in a post-9/11 America, the pressures poc’s face to play nice in corporate America and the exclusion of Central Asians from the Asian cultural dialogue. Joseph is also a refugee and shared his experiences in The Displaced, edited by Viet Thanh Nguyen, with proceeds to support the International Rescue Committee. Please like, subscribe and support us on Patreon :)
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| 0:00.0 | How are you feeling? |
| 0:04.0 | I'm feeling Asia. Welcome to Feeling Asia and a podcast where two Asians talk about their feelings. |
| 0:19.1 | I'm Young Me Mayor. |
| 0:20.2 | And I'm Brian Park. |
| 0:21.7 | And before, we do this every week, I don't know why I have to keep explaining it before we introduce our guest |
| 0:27.0 | We're gonna do our patron shout-outs. Yes for those of you who are not aware we have a Patreon. |
| 0:33.6 | If you like our content please consider donating to our Patreon at |
| 0:38.0 | Patreon.com slash feeling Asian and young me and I offer different |
| 0:42.3 | subscription tears with different exclusive benefits, |
| 0:45.0 | but at the very least, any donation amount gets you a shout out on this podcast. |
| 0:50.0 | I just want to say your donations are very helpful. |
| 0:56.0 | I'm unemployed, please. |
| 0:58.0 | And not to sound too desperate. |
| 1:00.0 | The way these shoutouts work is Young Me and I use our psychic abilities to guess who you are just as a person based on your name alone. |
| 1:10.0 | Yeah, there's not that much to it. Last week I got some feedback. We were very wrong. |
| 1:15.2 | There have been whispers that our psychic abilities need some tune-up. |
| 1:19.1 | So... I wasn't hung over enough, I think. Remember, I think that if I'm... The more hung over I think, I think, remember? I think that if I'm, the more hung over I am somehow. |
| 1:25.9 | Somehow the more accurate it becomes. Yeah. Are you ready for our first shout out? So ready. |
| 1:30.9 | Alvin Kwong. Alvin Kwang. Oh man, it reminds me of like those like sexy Wong or Y movies. |
| 1:40.0 | What? |
| 1:42.0 | I was just laughing. |
| 1:43.0 | Why did you laugh when I said, because I always say sexy? |
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