In a gentle and heartfelt conversation, Korean American Storyteller Tasha Jun discusses her new book, Tell Me the Dream Again, with Latasha Morrison on the Be the Bridge Podcast. You’ll hear Tasha vulnerably share about her journey of embracing the whole story of being biracial. They discuss the importance of being specific about our stories, of honesty and community, and of representation. Tasha and Tasha give listeners encouragement on how to persevere through injustice and also how to sit with the feelings of anger and lament and grief. This episode is an invitation to show up as your whole self and know you are worthy of belonging.
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*Host & Executive Producer - Latasha MorrisonSenior Producer - Lauren C. Brown*Producer, Editor, & Music - **Travon Potts)Assistant Producer & Transcriber - Sarah Connatser
Quotes:“Belonging is being able to be in a place or a space, where you are your whole self and where your whole self is welcome to stretch out and also have room to become at the same time.” -Tasha Jun
“I hope that being really specific will help people to be specific about themselves, and just take a look within and be able to see their own distinctions with value and give attention to those things.” -Tasha Jun
“When we think diversity is really divisive, then we have missed something. Because diversity is a part of creation.” -Latasha Morrison
Links:Tell Me the Dream Again: Reflections on Family, Ethnicity, and the Sacred Work of Belonging) book by Tasha JunVoices of Lament: Reflections on Brokenness and Longing in a World Longing for Justice) book edited by Natasha Sistrunk Robinson
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