I See You, I Love You

Nancy

WNYC Studios

Gay, Documentary, Society & Culture, Sexuality, Lgtbq, Lesbian, Relationships, Asian, Politics, Conversations, Storytelling, Health & Fitness, Homosexuality

4.8 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 17 September 2017

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

If you don't see something, say something.

— Gaby Dunn and Allison Raskin produce a YouTube series called Just Between Us. They have a new YA book called "I Hate Everyone But You."

— Vivek Shraya is the author of "The Boy and the Bindi," a children's book illustrated by Rajni Perera. (Here's the research she cites about diversity in books for kids.)

Special thanks this week to Daniel Guillemette.

Episode scoring by Jeremy Bloom. Theme by Alexander Overington.

Transcript

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0:00.0	Cafe. Yes, Tobin. I'd like to tell you about a little thing I call the Power Rangers predicament.
0:07.4	Imagine if you will you're a young gay Asian boy. And you are playing Power Rangers with your friends.
0:15.2	Yeah. And you're trying to figure out which one you are.
0:19.0	Okay. But you can't because the Power Rangers conveniently split up the identities
0:24.9	among the different Rangers. Yeah. So the Black Ranger was Black.
0:29.6	Yeah. The Yellow Ranger was, are you fucking kidding me Asian? Yeah, yes, he was.
0:34.9	And then the Blue Ranger was even though we didn't know it at the time.
0:39.2	The Gay Ranger. Can I also interject of the two female Rangers one got a skirt and one didn't?
0:45.2	Oh, the Pink Ranger wore a skirt. The Pink Ranger wore a skirt.
0:48.0	So I remember very explicitly like as a kid when we would play Power Rangers, I was like,
0:53.1	I'm just gonna make one up. Because there's not one for me. What color Ranger were you?
0:58.8	I feel like I had to pick a color that wasn't taken. Maybe I was the gold Ranger.
1:03.5	This is why I think it's actually much easier to figure out who you are as an Ninja Turtle.
1:09.0	I was literally just thinking that. Get the fuck out.
1:19.3	From WNYC Studios, this is Nancy. With your hosts Tobin Low and Kathy too.
1:27.9	What do you explain the YouTube series that you guys have created? Sure, I mean it's okay.
1:38.4	It's um... Welcome to Just Between Us. I'm Allison Raskin. I'm Gabby Dunn.
1:47.1	We have a comedy channel together because we're best friends and comedians. And we're a non-couple.
1:51.6	That means one of us is different than the other one. It's a classic comedy routine.
1:56.3	Gabby is by with Bleach Blonde Hair and Big Glasses.
2:00.1	We're doing some light cuddling and I showed her the pilot of the L word. But she already hates
2:04.7	Jenny so she's perfect. It Allison's straight with long brown hair and a total frankness about
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