Spoon River Mythology

What It Feels Like For A Girl

Framing Britney Spears has the ALTP team all abuzz. Hosts Kerry Ose, Joanna Chen and Brianne Young recap the documentary and talk about our own experiences as young girls trying to define ourselves. We look at our own complicity in tidy media narratives and what we can learn from all the ways we've been wrong about Britney and so many other young people who have the audacity to be creative, talented and successful.

A Dumpling For Your Thoughts

ALTP is honored to ring in the Lunar New Year with Suzanne Chen, lifelong foodie, Plano Magazine Girl Boss 2020 [http://planomagazine.com/girl-boss-2020-suzanne-chen/], and mom to our own Joanna Chen. In this interview, Joanna and Suzanne describe in delicious detail regional Chinese cuisines and other foods they love with a passion. They explore how food anchors identity, nurtures relationships and leads to adventure, including cooking classes in Taiwan.  What do you think about this story? Join the conversation at ALTPpodcast@gmail.com, follow us on Instagram at altppodcast, or leave us a voice message at anchor.fm/altppodcast. Like what you hear? Please follow/share/subscribe/rate/review (whatever that button is telling you to do!)

Spoon River Mythology

In the first of a two-episode series, host Kerry Ose interviews her dad about his memories of his parents' restaurant in London Mills, Illinois. What she learns challenges Kerry's beliefs about her own origin story, and how being White made her and her forebears safe and prosperous. Next week, host Joanna Chen will interview her mom about her own childhood experience in a family restaurant, and how that chapter fits into her life story of emigrating from Taiwan to the United States when she was a child.  What do you think about this story? Join the conversation at ALTPpodcast@gmail.com, follow us on Instagram at altppodcast, or leave us a voice message at anchor.fm/altppodcast. Like what you hear? Please follow/share/subscribe/rate/review (whatever that button is telling you to do!)

GameStop Trade

Like everyone else, the ALTP team has thoughts and feelings about the whole GameStop/Robinhood/r/WallStreetBets kerfuffle. Join hosts Joanna Chen, Alex Sievers and Sharon Lewis as they work through this developing story.  What do you think about this story? Join the conversation at ALTPpodcast@gmail.com, follow us on Instagram at altppodcast, or leave us a voice message at anchor.fm/altppodcast. Like what you hear? Please follow/share/subscribe/rate/review (whatever that button is telling you to do!)

A Promenade Through Season 1 of Bridgerton

Co-hosts Kerry Ose, Donna Anderson and Alex Sievers break down season 1 of Bridgerton, Netflix's fanciful Regency Era dramedy of manners.  Join the conversation at ALTPpodcast@gmail.com, or leave us a voice message at anchor.fm/altppodcast. Like what you hear? Please follow/share/subscribe/rate/review (whatever that button is telling you to do!)