SEASON 1: HOMESTUCK
As we continue to live through this pandemic, we have been asked to stay at home, to quarantine, and to ultimately, maintain a “social distance” from our loved ones. We have been challenged to find new and creative ways to show our love from afar. But for those of us who are part of a diaspora or who have been displaced in some way – voluntarily or forced, right here on this land or abroad – we know all too well all the gradients and textures of loving from afar.
And so, for this first season of the Living Hyphen Podcast, we’ve collected stories from a multitude of different storytellers across what we now know as Canada to explore this concept of “homestuck” – whatever home might be, whatever one’s relationship to their home(s) might be, and whatever being stuck can mean.
Join us on this journey in exploring our hyphenated identities and how it all connects to the most trying time of our generation. New episodes will be shared weekly. Listen wherever you find podcasts.
Check out our episodes
Living Hyphen is proud to have been selected as part of the HotDocs Podcast Festival’s Opening Act program in 2022.
PRESS MENTIONS
Living Hyphen provides a platform for multicultural Canadians to share their culture. The Peak. July 5, 2021.
New Living Hyphen Podcast Explores Hyphenated Identities. Toast. June 12, 2021.
Between Worlds, Right At Home. Liisbeth. June 1, 2021.
Living Hyphen podcast reflect on identity amid pandemic. CanadianFilipino.net. June 1, 2021.
How we 'love from afar' in pandemic echoes what immigrants have always done: podcaster. CTV. May 6, 2021.
Living the double hyphenated life: New podcast explores the push and pull of Living Hyphen. CBC Metro Morning May 2021.
MEET YOUR CO-HOSTS
Trisha Gregorio
Trisha Gregorio is an avid content creator with years of experience working with a variety of formats from fiction to nonfiction to theatre to audio. Always eager to find new areas to expand her storytelling into, what has remained unwavering throughout is her passion to tell heartfelt stories in equally heartfelt ways. She believes that community-building is where it all begins, and her aim is to work towards making space for those whose love she can help amplify and give back.
Justine Abigail Yu
Justine Abigail Yu is the Founder and Editor-in-Chief of Living Hyphen. She is an award-winning writing workshop facilitator whose work with Living Hyphen has been featured on international, national, and local media outlets including Yahoo! News, NextShark, CTV National News, and the CBC.
Justine Abigail is a fierce advocate for equity and anti-oppression. Her mission is to stir the conscience and spur social change.
Thank you to #RisingYouth
The first season of the Living Hyphen podcast is generously supported by #RisingYouth, a program led by TakingITGlobal that offers grants for youth to kickstart their own community service projects bringing their ideas into action. Funded by the Government of Canada under the Canada Service Corps initiative, #RisingYouth has funded over 4500 youth projects all across the country. Learn more at www.risingyouth.ca.
