Musician and actor Mark Clennon chats about leaving Jamaica as a teenager, the ways ‘immigrant stories’ often don’t reflect the nuances of his own experiences, and what it means to go back home and be unapologetically himself.
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Journalist Hannah Sung chats with Friday Things about BTS' appeal, but also how fandom has given her avenues to learn more about Korean culture, connected her to new friends and amplified the lessons she'd already been learning about feminism, power and aging.
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Author and public speaker Bee Quammie, journalist Pacinthe Mattar and Friday Things assistant editor Ruth Young join Friday Things founder Stacy Lee Kong for a candid chat about their varied immigrant experiences, from growing up second-gen and wishing ‘immigrant’ was a label that applied, to identifying as a third-culture kid who doesn’t seem herself as an immigrant at all, to being an immigrant who isn’t perceived as one.
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Author Téa Mutonji chats with Friday Things about the type of characters who are allowed to be messy, her writing process and why she still finds so much inspiration in Scarborough’s Galloway neighbourhood.
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Toronto Star food reporter Karon Liu chats with Friday Things about the food story he never wants to read again (hint: it involves smelly lunches), the state of Canada’s food writing scene and the benefits and responsibilities that come with being one of the few full-time, unionized food journalists in Canada.
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Self-taught visual artist Melissa Falconer chats with Friday Things about the very specific brand of hustle culture experienced by immigrants, where she finds inspiration and why her goal is to never let ‘Future Melissa’ down.
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Fashion designer, tailor and craftsperson Warren Steven Scott chats with Friday Things about building a career in the Canadian fashion industry as an Indigenous person, why happiness is a big part of his aesthetic and the power of your family finally getting what you do for a living.
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Madelyn Chung, the founder of The RepresentASIAN Project, chats with Friday Things about why we still need to push for representation, the importance of holding ourselves accountable and why we should be paying attention to the hot guys and girls of Physical 100.
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In the first episode of Making Our Own Way, director Kelly Fyffe-Marshall chats with Friday Things about how being an immigrant impacts her approach to filmmaking, the particular challenges of finding funding as a young Black woman and what it means to tell ‘Canadian stories.’
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