Podcast about academia, culture, and social justice across the STEM/humanities divide. Dr. Liz Wayne and Dr. Christine "Xine" Yao are two women of color Ivy League PhDs navigating higher education. Biomedical engineer meets literary critic. Both fans of lipstick.
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S01E18 | Appreciation or Appropriation?
Xine and Liz respond to a listener's question: can someone appropriate their own cultural identity? Xine confesses that she's an Asian person who has never been to Asia. Liz muses about her relationship to her own blackness. Food, fashion, hip hop. Power and history. What's authenticity? Who gets to own culture?