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Asian Enough: Rabia Chaudry

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Los Angeles Times

Foretold, #Tarot, News Commentary, Society & Culture, News, Romani, California

4.61.4K Ratings

🗓️ 21 April 2020

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

A conversation with civil rights attorney Rabia Chaudry about race and the “Serial” podcast, defying cultural expectations, and defending Muslim Americans after 9/11.

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0:00.0

From the L.A. Times Studios, this is Asian Enough.

0:08.0

Each week on this podcast, we talk to one Asian American celebrity about the joys, the complications, and everything else that comes

0:14.9

along with being Asian American.

0:17.1

I'm Jen Yamato.

0:18.4

And I'm Frank Schon.

0:19.8

This week on episode 7 of our podcast we're joined by civil rights attorney

0:24.0

Robia Chaudhry. She'll talk about growing up with her parents expectations.

0:28.4

You know when they left Pakistan in 1970, 1970s Pakistan never left them.

0:34.0

You know, my dad would be like,

0:35.0

your hair should be in two braids and it should be well-oiled.

0:38.0

We'll also talk about surviving domestic violence,

0:41.0

defending Muslim Americans after 9-11 and about what Robia learned about

0:45.2

storytelling after being on the serial podcast. So let's get to it.

0:51.3

Aizhnaif is presented by Little America, now streaming exclusively on Apple TV Plus in the TV

0:58.6

app on all iOS devices and TV app supported devices. This advertiser has no influence over editorial decisions or content. First of all, how are you dealing with the quarantine and I saw your tweets, what is it like to self-isolate with your mother?

1:28.0

Which I could not imagine doing myself right now.

1:31.0

So my sister who lives in the area, we've split up the

1:33.1

parents, my dad's with her, my mom's with me. Look they're older, they like

1:37.9

their space, they miss their friends, they miss their routine. Every day the biggest

1:42.3

struggle for me

1:43.4

in this coronavirus is not my kids,

1:45.6

it's not my cats, it's not my husband being home.

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