{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/presentation/3/context.json","id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/iiif/w08w951w37/manifest","type":"Manifest","label":{"en":["Episode 10: Things That Brought Us Together"]},"logo":"https://d9jk7wjtjpu5g.cloudfront.net/organizations/logo_images/000/000/010/original/Aviary_QPLlogo_192x192.png?1578574261","metadata":[{"label":{"en":["Date"]},"value":{"en":["2022-06-13 (released)"]}},{"label":{"en":["Type"]},"value":{"en":["Audio"]}},{"label":{"en":["Description"]},"value":{"en":["\u003cp\u003eListening back to all 8 episodes, I realize we’ve created a multilingual memory book that speaks to how far we’ve come as a borough and how far we still have to go. \u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis memory book would not be complete without hearing from the producers themselves whose deep connections to their communities allowed unique access and intimate encounters. \u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn the final episode, we bring them together to discuss the making of “Our Major Minor Voices.” \u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis episode was produced by Melody Cao in conjunction with Anna Williams and Natalie Milbrodt. It was hosted by J. Faye Yuan.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMixing and editing by Cory Choy with music composed by Elias Ravin. \u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis podcast has been made possible in part by the National Endowment for the Humanities: Democracy demands wisdom. The views, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this episode are those of its creators and do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of National Endowment for the Humanities, Queens Public Library, the City University of New York, or their employees.\u003c/p\u003e (general)"]}},{"label":{"en":["Rights Statement"]},"value":{"en":["\u003cp\u003eThis audio piece was produced by the Queens Memory Project and is available for use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International Public License. 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Faye Yuan:  You’re listening to Season 3 of the Queens Memory Podcast. My name is J. Faye Yuan, and I’m the Queens Memory Curator.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/74908/file/160918#t=1.0,10.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/74908/file/160918/transcript/42903/annotation/2","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"J. Faye Yuan:  In this season, “Our Major Minor Voices,” we feature stories from our neighbors of Asian descent in Queens, New York.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/74908/file/160918#t=10.0,19.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/74908/file/160918/transcript/42903/annotation/3","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"J. Faye Yuan:  Too often, these voices are deemed “minor” – as in “of a minority.” But in this series – as in our borough – they are a major force. One in four Borough residents identifies as Asian-American.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/74908/file/160918#t=19.0,35.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/74908/file/160918/transcript/42903/annotation/4","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"J. Faye Yuan:  The stories they tell reflect their ongoing struggles and triumphs. They are our stories – a vital part of who we are – and together they represent a snapshot of our ever-changing neighborhoods as they are now.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/74908/file/160918#t=35.0,55.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/74908/file/160918/transcript/42903/annotation/5","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Madulika Khandelwal: We do need to know about different groups within the Asian American communities. We need to go even deeper… We need to know more about these communities and to acknowledge them and to bring them all together.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/74908/file/160918#t=55.0,115.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/74908/file/160918/transcript/42903/annotation/6","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Melody Cao:That was Madulika Khandelwal, the Professor from CUNY I talked to in the first episode. She reminded us of the importance of banding together, especially in the face of adversity. The whole can be greater than the sum of its parts. Listening back to all 8 episodes, I realize we’ve created a multilingual memory book that speaks to how far we’ve come as a borough and how far we still have to go.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/74908/file/160918#t=115.0,3696.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/74908/file/160918/transcript/42903/annotation/7","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Melody Cao: This memory book would not be complete without hearing from the producers themselves whose deep connections to their communities allowed unique access and intimate encounters. In this last episode of the season, we bring them together to discuss the making of “Our Major Minor Voices.” This is Melody Cao. Let’s listen.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/74908/file/160918#t=3696.0,3720.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/74908/file/160918/transcript/42903/annotation/8","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"[SOME CLIPS FROM Korean episode // Halmoni’s Kimchee]","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/74908/file/160918#t=3720.0,3750.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/74908/file/160918/transcript/42903/annotation/9","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Heidi Shin: I'm a journalist, an audio producer and a writer. I was born in Seoul, South Korea, and I immigrated to the states when I was really little and grew up in New York. In my work, I often tell stories around issues of immigration and race and things like that. But specifically for this project, my my own grandmother had passed away a few years ago and my dad had as well. And you know, I realize since then that I had all these questions that I never really got to ask them, especially about, like our earliest days in America. And then here there's this great opportunity to like, hear from other Korean-American families and to hear their stories basically like to hear from someone else's halmoni.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/74908/file/160918#t=3750.0,3793.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/74908/file/160918/transcript/42903/annotation/10","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Heidi Shin: You know, of course, like in many ways, these stories are unique to the families who are telling them. But, you know, in some ways, they were really familiar to me too, like hearing my own family story. Also, this was a project that I could work on with my own mom. So it gave me like a reason to pick up the phone, to call my mom and like, ask her about a lot of things that we never talked about and that I wanted to talk about. And so you, you you actually hear the voice of my mom in the Korean episode. She's the Korean narrator there.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/74908/file/160918#t=3793.0,3826.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/74908/file/160918/transcript/42903/annotation/11","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Heidi Shin: In the second half of my episode, the two sisters go back to their grandmother's house. It closes up with this song, this prayer that one of the sisters Soojin sings. And, you know, like in their daily lives, these sisters now they don't really speak much Korean. But there is this one prayer, the song that that Soojin has decided to teach her daughters and not just teach to them. They sing it every day before every meal. And and it was actually a song that I knew as a child that you know that my parents had taught me, but that I hadn't heard or sung in, I don't know, 20 something years. When she started to sing that song, you know, during our interview, I mean, I actually started to cry.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/74908/file/160918#t=3826.0,3874.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/74908/file/160918/transcript/42903/annotation/12","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Heidi Shin: One of the things that really surprised me about this project. You know, I I was like, really eager to go back to Queens. You know, I grew up in New York, but but I've moved away since and I was really eager to, like, go back. I pictured it being full of the same like youth group bands that I took, you know, to all the Korean church meetings and all my friends, parents who owned dry cleaners and fruit stands and things like that. But I think I think what I realized in the midst of all my interviews was that that that queens that I knew from when I was a kid. Like, it's it's not there anymore. So like producing this podcast for me was really special because it it felt like creating, creating and exploring like a time capsule.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/74908/file/160918#t=3874.0,3921.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/74908/file/160918/transcript/42903/annotation/13","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"[SOME CLIPS FROM Nepali episode//I thought I’d won]","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/74908/file/160918#t=3921.0,3970.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/74908/file/160918/transcript/42903/annotation/14","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Peter Gill: Hi. My name is Peter Gill. I was born to American parents, but I grew up in Nepal. I think Nepalis in the US have amazing stories to tell. Nepal is a country that depends very, very much on income from people working abroad. And the reason for this, as you know, is a painful one. I mean, Nepal's economy is very poor .The most powerful moment for me was when I was talking with the nanny Dolma about her daughter and she broke down crying. I was just thinking, you know, she has gone ten years without seeing her baby daughter.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/74908/file/160918#t=3970.0,4014.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/74908/file/160918/transcript/42903/annotation/15","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Peter Gill: I mean, her daughter was two and she left and one of the day to day visited her. She was celebrating her 12th birthday over June I'm doing this. And I can't imagine what it's like to go a decade without seeing your child at that age. The fact that she is here working very hard, you know, for her daughter, I mean, she sees it really as it's it's a path to a better life for her daughter. So that her daughter can go to, you know, a decent school in Nepal, which Dolma herself never had the opportunity to go to. She didn't get to go to school at all. You know, being here, doing it for them, but not being able to even see them, not being able to see your own child, that I just can't imagine. It's it's really, really tough.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/74908/file/160918#t=4014.0,4066.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/74908/file/160918/transcript/42903/annotation/16","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Shradha Ghale: Hi, I'm Shradha Ghale. I was born and raised in Nepal and went to college in the US. Individuals featured in our episode, Dolma works as a nanny. And my son, who is a barber and a poet. Both have found something they really value in America, like a job, income, independence, freedom, convenience. But each of them also carries a deep sense of loss that comes from having to leave the place where one grew up in and the people you love.So Pasang says in his poem: when I got here I thought I had won, but I had lost. I think it captures what many Nepali immigrants experience in this country. And that, of course, includes me. It's this sense of having won and lost at the same time.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/74908/file/160918#t=4066.0,4126.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/74908/file/160918/transcript/42903/annotation/17","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"[SOME CLIPS FROM Urdu episode // What Gets Lost in Translation]","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/74908/file/160918#t=4126.0,4172.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/74908/file/160918/transcript/42903/annotation/18","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Syma Mohammed: I came to the U.S. and to thousand and 14, and I came from the U.K. I came from Scotland. I am a third generation Indian I guess, and second generation Pakistani because of partition. I think what attracted me was working on stories that were in on native English languages, which I had been trying to do more of in my work as well. But also that these were stories told from people's own perspectives in communities that we don't always hear a lot about.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/74908/file/160918#t=4172.0,4205.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/74908/file/160918/transcript/42903/annotation/19","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Syma Mohammed: I've always thought about how it do is, you know, is something that like connects me with a history and a roots that I am not necessarily always connected with because I speak or do with a Scottish accent. It's not necessarily like, you know, like somebody who was born and grew up there. So I think there's always this journey with the language and with one's roots and displacement and history. And there's this relationship that one is always interrogating.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/74908/file/160918#t=4205.0,4235.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/74908/file/160918/transcript/42903/annotation/20","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"[SOME CLIPS FROM Mandarin episode// Invisible Homeless]","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/74908/file/160918#t=4235.0,4270.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/74908/file/160918/transcript/42903/annotation/21","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Stella Gu: Most of my work are related to a Chinese community, about their achievements, issues, lifestyles. Before this, I was in Shanghai, I came to you ask for school. My episode was a sad story. It's about a family drowned in an illegal basement apartment. So the whole interview was in a grieving mood. The most touching moment was when I heard their ashes were sent back to China in a cargo truck. Usually, the cargo truck need to be fully loaded, but that truck was empty except three cremation urns.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/74908/file/160918#t=4270.0,4304.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/74908/file/160918/transcript/42903/annotation/22","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Stella Gu:As an immigrant, you know, you must have a reason which made you leave your own country came to a strange place, especially Mr. Leung came to U.S. when he was at his fifties. So I think there must be something good in America attracted him here. We call Mr. Leng and his family invisible homeless in this episode, because they were living in an illegal basement apartment, but we really don't want them become invisible. So I think this project can help. This project can help them become part of Queens library's oral history. People will hear this story and will remember this family.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/74908/file/160918#t=4304.0,4347.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/74908/file/160918/transcript/42903/annotation/23","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"[SOME CLIPS FROM Tagalog  episode// Seeing Signs]","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/74908/file/160918#t=4347.0,4399.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/74908/file/160918/transcript/42903/annotation/24","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Rosalind Tordesillas: So I was born and grew up in the Philippines. And I came here to the U.S. for grad school. Ever since I got into audio, I've been motivated to tell the stories of immigrants and my own community, specifically Filipino. We have such a long history in the U.S., but we've been invisible. So because we were a colony of the U.S. and it's only in recent years that we've been really emboldened to step up and and, you know, sort of assert ourselves and be seen instead of just kind of blending into the background.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/74908/file/160918#t=4399.0,4436.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/74908/file/160918/transcript/42903/annotation/25","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Rosalind Tordesillas: One of the people that I really wish that I could have included was someone named Hannah Sarah. She was a high school student at the time when she helped paint the Mauboy mural. Having grown up here, she wasn't so connected to her Filipino heritage. And, you know, she had struggles accepting this this side of her and sometimes was even proud when people told her that she didn't look Filipino.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/74908/file/160918#t=4436.0,4463.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/74908/file/160918/transcript/42903/annotation/26","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Rosalind Tordesillas: Painting the mural, Hannah said, made her reflect on the significance of being Filipino and really appreciated her heritage more, and especially during the pandemic, when she became more aware of the contributions of Filipino health care workers and how they were so impacted by the pandemic. And actually, it really touched me afterwards.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/74908/file/160918#t=4463.0,4487.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/74908/file/160918/transcript/42903/annotation/27","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"[SOME CLIPS FROM Tibetan episode // Mother Tongue]","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/74908/file/160918#t=4487.0,4557.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/74908/file/160918/transcript/42903/annotation/28","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Tenzin Tsetan Choklay: My name is Tenzin Tsetan Choklay, and I am a Tibetan American filmmaker based in Queens. Before moving to the U.S., I grew up in North India in the Tibetan refugee community of Thumb Salat, which is also the home of His Holiness, the Dalai Lama and the Tibetan government in exile. My parents, they escaped Tibet to India in 1959, like many other Tibetans, and lived the remaining part of their lives in exile, never to see their homeland again.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/74908/file/160918#t=4557.0,8126.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/74908/file/160918/transcript/42903/annotation/29","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Tenzin Tsetan Choklay: When I first heard about this project, I immediately felt how meaningful and novel an idea this is and at the same time how extremely important it is to do such work as someone belonging to a minority community here in the U.S. One of his struggles with the questions of identity, language, and finding a sense of belonging Despite being Asian, I am someone who has quite a negative take on the term Asian-American because it always felt like painting with a broad brush. But through these interviews, honestly, I've had quite a change of mind.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/74908/file/160918#t=8126.0,8214.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/74908/file/160918/transcript/42903/annotation/30","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Tenzin Tsetan Choklay: One of the guests I spoke to mentioned how we as Asian-Americans or new immigrants in this country do not have much shared memories that ties us together. And it very well may be one of the reasons why it's difficult for many of us to identify ourselves as Asian-Americans. We all come from different cultures, different languages and different experiences. But over the last two years, with many incidences of racially induced crimes against Asian-Americans, we realize that these attackers do not discriminate. As long as you look a certain way, you are considered an outsider worthy of attack.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/74908/file/160918#t=8214.0,8248.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/74908/file/160918/transcript/42903/annotation/31","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Tenzin Tsetan Choklay: So in a lot of ways, it makes sense. And also it's important to be grouped together and to be working together to champion our causes. But with respect to the diversity that each of our communities bring in, and to add to that, I also feel like the banner holders of Asian-American groups also need to be more inclusive, you know, and put extra effort in reaching out to all communities despite size rather than for just focusing on larger immigrant communities. And this would make the idea so much richer and so much more meaningful.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/74908/file/160918#t=8248.0,8285.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/74908/file/160918/transcript/42903/annotation/32","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"[SOME CLIPS FROM Hindi episode // Looking Ahead]","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/74908/file/160918#t=8285.0,8365.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/74908/file/160918/transcript/42903/annotation/33","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Indranil Choudhury: My name is Indranil Choudhury. I am from India and I moved to New York in August. 2019 to join a media arts program at Hunter College. Doing the Hindi episode comes with its opportunities and challenges There are sort of controversial aspects to expecting that everybody in India speak Hindi. That's a common misconception and I definitely wanted to avoid that.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/74908/file/160918#t=8365.0,8394.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/74908/file/160918/transcript/42903/annotation/34","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Indranil Choudhury: I didn't want to offend anybody by suggesting that they should be able to speak Hindi, and just navigating that issue was an interesting challenge and it ended up involving people, you know, who speak Punjabi, Gujarati or really Bengali and who all also speak Hindi. Do they please so that was really interesting. One of the trickier parts of having a sense of community within South Asians is the fact that there are so many varied experiences, both in terms of nationalities or an Indian or Bangladeshi or a Pakistani. Sri Lankan would all have very different experiences of being here.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/74908/file/160918#t=8394.0,8427.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/74908/file/160918/transcript/42903/annotation/35","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Indranil Choudhury: There are also class differences within each of those communities. So trying to be open about that when doing my interviews, talking to people about it, talking to people who work in politics and organizing and are aware of these differences and experiences and the challenges of having to speak for a community at large, I think I learned a lot. It almost kind of feels like I have gotten to know more about my own history as a result of talking to people and learning about their experiences. In this context.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/74908/file/160918#t=8427.0,8468.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/74908/file/160918/transcript/42903/annotation/36","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"[SOME CLIPS FROM Bangla episode // The Greatest Inheritance]","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/74908/file/160918#t=8468.0,8532.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/74908/file/160918/transcript/42903/annotation/37","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Trisha Mukherjee: Immigration has been in my family, immigration and migration, for the past few generations. My grandparents during the 1947 partition of India, they crossed the border. That was a very violent migration. Then more recently, my parents immigrated to the US in the 1980s, and so I grew up just hearing about their stories, figuring out a country that was foreign to them. And I really value all these experiences in my family's history and I think it's a big part of what informs my identity today.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/74908/file/160918#t=8532.0,8569.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/74908/file/160918/transcript/42903/annotation/38","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Trisha Mukherjee:My episode is centered on language and in the Bengali community language means a lot to us. I was just struck by the absolute dedication and love that my interviewees have had for the Bangla language. My parents are the immigrant generation and so I often hear them speaking to me, but I sometimes, sometimes not sometimes they don't respond in Bangla.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/74908/file/160918#t=8569.0,8599.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/74908/file/160918/transcript/42903/annotation/39","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Trisha Mukherjee: And so I just thought after speaking to Nazanin that I would really love my future children to speak for me. So then I started practicing it more and I started reading and writing more, which I haven't really done too much before. And yeah, I hope to just keep preserving all these stories. I think it's really important to not let these voices just fade away in history.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/74908/file/160918#t=8599.0,8629.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/74908/file/160918/transcript/42903/annotation/40","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Melody Cao: Preserving and presenting these little details and nuances in context is what brought us all together. It’s what animates our mission at Queens Memory. And - reflecting on the producers’ individual experiences - it’s the stuff that makes stories worth telling. For Queens Memory Podcast, I’m Melody Cao.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/74908/file/160918#t=8629.0,8656.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/74908/file/160918/transcript/42903/annotation/41","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"J. Faye Yuan: The Queens Memory Podcast is a production of the Queens Memory Project. For full transcripts and show notes from this episode,  visit QueensMemory dot org forward slash podcast.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/74908/file/160918#t=8656.0,8669.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/74908/file/160918/transcript/42903/annotation/42","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"J. Faye Yuan: This episode was produced by Melody Cao, in conjunction with Anna Williams and Natalie Milbrodt. Mixing and editing by Cory Choy with music composed by Elias Ravin.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/74908/file/160918#t=8669.0,8680.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/74908/file/160918/transcript/42903/annotation/43","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"J. Faye Yuan: This podcast has been made possible in part by the National Endowment for the Humanities: Democracy demands wisdom. The views, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this podcast are those of it's creators and do not necessarily represent those of the National Endowment for the Humanities, Queens Public Library, the City University of New York, or their employees.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/74908/file/160918#t=8680.0,8714.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/74908/file/160918/transcript/42903/annotation/44","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"J. Faye Yuan: I'm J. Faye Yuan. Thank you for listening.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/74908/file/160918#t=8714.0,1527.12"}]}]}]}