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Complexity, Contradiction, and Compassion: The 3 Cs of Immigrant Identity
Dear Hyphenly Readers,
It’s almost the end of the year. On the streets, houses are lit up, glasses are filled with eggnog, and snow is piling up in driveways. This is perhaps the best time to listen to the contemplative episodes at Immigrantly Media. As you gear up for the new year, what lessons are you taking with you?
At Immigrantly, Saadia talks to author and journalist Karin Jensen, to uncover the burden our parents carry so we can stand where we are, with a deep dive of her memoir The Strength of Water. At Sportly, in a re-released episode from October, host Kavitha discusses into sports bar culture across the United States. At Love-ly, host Mehak sits down with sex educator and pleasure expert Danielle Bezalel to discuss how intimacy is treated in immigrant households.
IMMIGRANTLY
In this powerful conversation, journalist and author Karin Jensen takes us inside the real-life story behind her memoir The Strength of Water. Her mother’s life stretched from a Chinese laundry in 1920s Detroit to a village in wartime China, to navigating racism, domestic work, and reinvention in mid-century America. Karin shares how she pieced together silences, uncovered buried memories, and learned to hold complexity, contradiction, and compassion all at once.
You can connect with Saadia on X @swkkhan or email her at [email protected] to share your thoughts about the episode.
SPORTLY
From Palermo’s to The Sports Bra: Inside the Evolution of the American Sports Bar
Listen on Spotify and Apple
Length: 32 mins
Sports journalist, Kavitha Davidson explores how bars once built for straight, white men evolved to include women, immigrants, and queer communities, creating a new sports culture. (This is a re-run of a popular Sportly episode.) What do beer-soaked bleachers, immigrant taverns, and feminist bar owners have in common? They all shaped the modern American sports bar. From Palermo’s Tavern in St. Louis, often recognized as America’s first sports bar, to The Sports Bra in Portland, the first bar dedicated entirely to women’s sports, this episode traces how these spaces became America’s unofficial living rooms.
You can reach the host, Kavitha, at [email protected]
LOVE-LY
Pleasure in the Age of Aesthetic Capitalism with Danielle Bezalel
Listen on Spotify and Apple
Length: 42 mins
This week on Love-ly, Mehak sits down with sex educator and pleasure expert Danielle Bezalel—host of Sex Ed with DB. Together, they unpack the motifs that shape our earliest understandings of intimacy: immigrant households where sex was whispered, cultures that mistake silence for safety, and school systems that replace curiosity with misinformation.
You can connect with Mehak @whatthemehak on TikTok and @whatthemehak_ on IG
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