Mind Your Margins

What 25 Years of Yellow Rage Has Taught Me About Anger - Part 4: To Be Fierce AAPI Women

Part 4 of an ongoing series reflecting on 25 years of Yellow Rage. Michelle Myers draws on her experience as a professor, activist, and poet to foster a space for listeners where it’s humanly possible to make humanity possible. Each episode, Michelle discusses difficult topics with a focus on practicing mindfulness and self-care as well as on claiming a personal space of acceptance, healing, and compassion.  In this episode, Michelle reflects on the women artists who influenced her, the backlash she and Catzie received as Yellow Rage, and why Yellow Rage’s anger was never simply about rage—it was about dignity, visibility, and refusing to make themselves smaller for other people’s comfort. Michelle also shares stories she’s never publicly spoken about before, including experiences from Def Poetry Jam, spoken word culture in the early 2000s, and the complicated reactions she and Catzie received as Asian American women performing poetry about racism, sexism, fetishization, and anger. Below are links to articles about the topics discussed in the episode. This is not an exhaustive list and our listeners are encouraged to research these topics on their own as well: National Indigenous Women’s Resource Center [https://www.niwrc.org/mmiwr-awareness] You can find Mind Your Margins on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter and you can email suggestions for topics or share your thoughts at mindyourmargins@gmail.com Host: Michelle Myers Producer: Myong McCloud

What 25 Years of Yellow Rage Has Taught Me About Anger - Part 3: Reclaiming Mixed Race Pride

Part 3 of an ongoing series reflecting on 25 years of Yellow Rage. Michelle Myers draws on her experience as a professor, activist, and poet to foster a space for listeners where it’s humanly possible to make humanity possible. Each episode, Michelle discusses difficult topics with a focus on practicing mindfulness and self-care as well as on claiming a personal space of acceptance, healing, and compassion.  In this episode, she’s reflecting on what it means to name her own identity and stand unapologetically as a mixed race Korean American. She also discusses, being misread and told “You’re Not…”, the anger behind “Listen Asshole”, and raising multiracial children in a world that doesn’t always make space for them.  Reclaiming pride isn’t about recognition. It’s about refusing to be defined by anyone else.  You can find Mind Your Margins on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter and you can email suggestions for topics or share your thoughts at mindyourmargins@gmail.com Host: Michelle Myers Producer: Myong McCloud

12: What 25 Years of Yellow Rage Has Taught Me About Anger - Part 2: Wrestling with Mixed Race Identity

Part 2 of an ongoing series reflecting on 25 years of Yellow Rage. Michelle Myers draws on her experience as a professor, activist, and poet to foster a space for listeners where it’s humanly possible to make humanity possible. Each episode, Michelle discusses difficult topics with a focus on practicing mindfulness and self-care as well as on claiming a personal space of acceptance, healing, and compassion.  In this episode, she reflects on growing up as a mixed race Korean American—navigating racism, identity, and the pressure to prove who she is. This episode explores being questioned and misread, the impact of cultural disconnection, finding belonging in unexpected places, and uncovering the stories beneath anger. Below are links to articles about the topics discussed in the episode. This is not an exhaustive list and our listeners are encouraged to research these topics on their own as well: “What Is Blood Quantum?” by the Native Governance Center [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Cl0MRPi62g] “What Makes Someone Native American?” by CrashCourse [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UxmD-Lone7A] “Who Can Identify as Native American?” by PBS Origins [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZBQPks1zb3A] You can find Mind Your Margins on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter and you can email suggestions for topics or share your thoughts at mindyourmargins@gmail.com Host: Michelle Myers Producer: Myong McCloud

11: What 25 Years of Yellow Rage Has Taught Me About Anger - Part 1: Anger Outright

Part 1: Anger Outright Michelle Myers draws on her experience as a professor, activist, and poet to foster a space for listeners where it’s humanly possible to make humanity possible. Each episode, Michelle discusses difficult topics with a focus on practicing mindfulness and self-care as well as on claiming a personal space of acceptance, healing, and compassion.  In this episode, she shares the story of how Yellow Rage began, the tensions around how they used our voices, and what she’s still learning now about the difference between expressing anger and creating space for connection. For 25 years, Yellow Rage has been rooted in anger. Real anger. Necessary anger. The kind that comes from love. “I don’t regret the anger. But today, I’m asking: How do we speak our truth without closing the door to being heard?” Below are links to articles about the topics discussed in the episode. This is not an exhaustive list and our listeners are encouraged to research these topics on their own as well: CNN interview with Elaine Miles, “Native American Actress: ICE Called My Tribal ID ‘Fake’” [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aX4c1Ki_vSU] You can find Mind Your Margins on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter and you can email suggestions for topics or share your thoughts at mindyourmargins@gmail.com Host: Michelle Myers Producer: Myong McCloud

10:The Fire and the Feed - Escaping the Digital Cave

Michelle Myers draws on her experience as a professor, activist, and poet to foster a space for listeners where it’s humanly possible to make humanity possible. Each episode, Michelle discusses difficult topics with a focus on practicing mindfulness and self-care as well as on claiming a personal space of acceptance, healing, and compassion.  In this episode, Michelle journeys from the shadows of Plato’s cave to the glow of our modern screens to ask a timeless question: What is real - and who decides?Michelle unpacks how platforms profit from emotion, how disinformation thrives in the chaos of “breaking news,” and how the pressure to perform—to “say something,” to “be seen reacting”—turns genuine communication into spectacle. Below are links to articles about the topics discussed in the episode. This is not an exhaustive list and our listeners are encouraged to research these topics on their own as well: Philip Deloria, “The Myth of Thanksgiving” [https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/11/25/the-invention-of-thanksgiving] David Silverman, This Land is Their Land: The Wampanoag Indians, Plymouth Colony, and the Troubled History of Thanksgiving [https://www.amazon.com/This-Land-Their-Wampanoag-Thanksgiving/dp/1632869241] Jon Stewart, The Weekly Show podcast, “How Social Media Exacerbates Disaster and Disinformation" [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pf0jS4M3cKg] Cambridge Analytica used personal data from Facebook to create psychological profiles of voters during the 2026 election [https://www.npr.org/2018/03/20/595338116/what-did-cambridge-analytica-do-during-the-2016-election] Data showing that immigrants, including undocumented ones, are less likely to commit crimes than U.S.-born citizens: Cato Institute [https://www.cato.org/blog/new-cato-paper-immigrants-cut-victimization-rates-boost-crime-reporting] Congressional document [https://www.congress.gov/119/meeting/house/117980/documents/HHRG-119-GO00-20250305-SD029.pdf] National Academy of Sciences [https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/undocumented-immigrants-are-half-as-likely-to-be-arrested-for-violent-crimes-as-u-s-born-citizens/#:~:text=As%20Trump's%20presidency%20nears%20its,and%20crime%2C] You can find Mind Your Margins on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter and you can email suggestions for topics or share your thoughts at mindyourmargins@gmail.com Host: Michelle Myers Producer: Myong McCloud