Colonized Desire
Truth Be Told: Time to Thrive
American Public Media
4.3 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 23 May 2019
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
Do you have “a type?” What if you’re a person of color, and you only have crushes on white folks? There’s a lot of mystery about what gets our hearts pumping, but one thing is for sure, our attractions aren’t simply just our own.
From romantic movies to commercials, we are inundated with messages about what sex and love should look like. As people of color, we rarely get to see ourselves in those narratives and this can have some real consequences.
In this episode of Truth Be Told, we talk with Dr. Amy Sueyoshi about love, interracial dating, and how an interrogation of our desires can lead to healthier relationships with ourselves and each other.
Why The Lovers Tarot Card?
The Lovers card in tarot signifies the possibilities of soul-connecting love. It can also suggest our attempts to figure out personal values, beliefs and attractions. For this episode all about colonized desire and how we can all interrogate the complexities of who we love and desire – The Lovers card just makes sense.
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| 0:00.0 | From K-QED. |
| 0:02.0 | Do you remember your childhood celebrity crush? |
| 0:07.0 | For me, there were a few. |
| 0:08.0 | There was L.L. Kool J. Ronnie Devo from New Edition, and people give me a lot of grief for this one |
| 0:14.2 | Joey McIntyre from New Kids on the Block. |
| 0:17.0 | I loved Freddie Prince Junior and she's all that. I thought he was the hell hot. |
| 0:27.0 | You should weigh all that attitude of makeup. Basically all you have is a C minus GPA with a Wonder Bra. |
| 0:32.4 | This week's question comes from Basically all I have is a C minus GPA with a wonder bra. |
| 0:33.6 | This week's question comes from someone in love with all that Freddie Prince Jr. |
| 0:37.6 | represents. |
| 0:38.8 | In the movie, Freddie was athletic, popular, and white. |
| 0:42.8 | I wanted that California, San Diego, like, eats fish tacos on the weekend, Surfer Bro, |
| 0:49.6 | that like worked out and like was totally straight passing like those were all qualities that I |
| 0:55.1 | wanted almost because it felt like they were so different from me. Meet checking |
| 0:59.5 | boxes he's 25 Thai Chinese American and lately he's been thinking about why he's only been into the |
| 1:06.9 | Freddie Prince Juniors of the world, in part because now he's fallen in love with someone who's not white. |
| 1:13.7 | Dear truth be told, I'm in a relationship with someone who I didn't think I would actually |
| 1:22.4 | initially be attracted to. |
| 1:25.0 | And so I'm wondering how can I |
| 1:30.0 | navigate my relationship and be authentic to my desires, but also be critical of the ways in which |
| 1:38.4 | the narratives I've absorbed about whose attractive have affected my sexuality. |
| 1:45.0 | How much of our desires are truly our own |
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