Interview with Lazou from 'Nuances: Our Asian Stories'

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4.8 • 644 Ratings

🗓️ 1 September 2024

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Today we're joined by Lazou from Nuances: Our Asian Stories to discuss her series Queering Premodern Asia. Join us as we chat about the complexities of queer history, the importance of non-Western stories, and queer Chinese ghosts. You can check out Nuances here. Visit out our website, where you can find everything there is to know about Queer as Fact. If you enjoy our content, consider supporting us on Patreon, checking out our merch, and following us on Instagram, Tumblr and Bluesky.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to Queer as Fact. I'm Irene. I'm Alice. I'm Lazu. Today we're here with
0:05.1	Lazu from the Nuencers podcast. She's going to be talking to us about her recent series
0:11.9	on Queerness in Pre-Modden Asia.
0:26.4	Before we begin, I'd like to acknowledge the Bonarong-Bunurang people of the Kulin Nation as the traditional owners of the land on which we record this podcast, and pay my respects to their elders past and present.
0:33.2	They are the custodians of an oral history tradition far older than this podcast.
0:37.0	We have some content warnings for this episode.
0:38.9	This episode will include discussions of racism and queer phobia, particularly in connection
0:42.9	with Asian communities.
0:44.3	If that's something you don't want to listen to, feel free to skip this episode and check
0:47.6	out our other content.
0:48.7	Today we're very excited to be joined by Lazu, the host of the Nuances Our Asian Stories
0:52.9	podcast.
0:54.0	Lazu's podcast generally explores the intersection of career, culture, and community in the
0:58.4	Asian diaspora.
0:59.6	But in her latest season, she's been focusing on exploring queer history in pre-modern Asia
1:03.8	with the help of queer Asian co-hosts and scholars.
1:06.9	Thank you very much for joining us, Lazu.
1:08.7	Thank you.
1:09.2	Thank you so much for having me.
1:10.4	Okay, let's get straight into it.
1:12.6	Do you want to talk a little bit about yourself, how you got into podcasting, like what your background is, getting into this podcast?
1:18.6	I have a circuitous journey to the United States. I actually grew up in Mauritius, which is much closer to where you are now. Then I moved
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