Podcasts by World of Stories

S2E11 - Post-Pandemic Aspirations from 2021-06-25T00:15

As Margrit and Eileen wrap up season two, we look forward to some things we're hopeful about in a post-pandemic world. Things like compassion and understanding, redefining family and relationshi...

S2E10 - Well-Being from 2021-06-11T00:15

What does it mean to be happy and healthy? Especially during a pandemic? Margrit & Eileen break down ideas about well-being, including a critique of the wellness industry. 

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S2E9 - Interview with Ann Gagné from 2021-05-28T00:15

Our number one fan returns to World of Stories! Special guest Ann Gagné joins Margrit and Eileen to talk about precarious work in academia, accessibility in education and beyond, touch and tacti...

S2E8 - Perfectionism from 2021-05-14T00:15

Margrit & Eileen chat about perfectionism and the internal and external pressures to live up to unrealistic and unattainable expectations. They talk about the false equivalency of perfec...

S2E7 - Interview with Lee Czechowski from 2021-04-30T00:15

Margrit & Eileen welcome Lee Czechowski to the podcast! Lee (they/them) is a queer mixed Anishnaabe/Settler midwifery student at Laurentian University. They love singing, puns, puzzles, coffee, ...

S2E6 - Friendship from 2021-04-16T00:15

What is the meaning of friendship? What are the different types of friendship? What important are friendships compared to other types of relationships? Margrit & Eileen chat about how the pandem...

S2E5 - Interview with Sarika Narinesingh from 2021-04-02T00:15

Margrit and Eileen chat with Sarika Narinesingh, a communications instructor at George Brown College in Toronto. We talk about taking care of your physical body during the pandemic as a form of ...

S2E4 - Queer of Colour from 2021-03-19T00:15

Eileen's got a million projects on the go, but one that is close to her heart is Queer of Colour: a storytelling platform where queer people of colour have a safe space to tell their own stories...

S2E3 - Rest from 2021-03-05T00:15

No discussion about labour & productivity is complete without talking about rest. How do we rest? How often? In what way? For what purpose? The need to stay productive is so deeply entrenched in...

S2E2 - Labour&Productivity from 2021-02-19T00:15

How has the pandemic shed light on the way we work, how we're productive, and the value of our labour? Margrit & Eileen chat about how we view labour and productivity in a capitalist society and...

S2E1 - How to Human in a Pandemic from 2021-02-05T00:15

Margrit and Eileen (fka Lin) are back with season 2 of World of Stories. 

This time around, we'll be discussing how to live in this new reality we find ourselves in. What does work look l...

Ep 40 - Goodbye For Now from 2020-03-27T00:15

Episode 40! We’re using this round number to announce that we’re going on a hiatus to rethink our follow-through on the goals and wishes that fuelled us to start the podcast as a space to talk a...

Ep 39 - More Than Enough and Diane Arbus from 2020-03-13T00:05

Elaine Welteroth’s memoir More than Enough (https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/598362/more-t...

Ep 38 - Braiding Sweetgrass and the Torque Dance Festival from 2020-02-28T00:15

Braiding Sweetgrass (https://milkweed.org/book/braiding-sweetgrass) is one of the best books Lin has ever read. An Indigenous plant ec...

Ep 37 - The Last Back Unicorn and Harley Quinn from 2020-02-14T00:15

Tiffany Haddish’s memoir, The Last Black Unicorn (https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Last-Black-Unicorn/Tiffany-Haddish/9781501181832), balances humour with poignancy as it recounts the ...

Ep 36 - Karena&Kasey's Foreign Flavours and Jojo Rabbit from 2020-01-31T00:15

In this episode, Lin's fallen in love with Karena & Kasey’s Foreign Flavours,  a perfectly binge-able travel and food show on CBC Gem ( Listen

Ep 33 - Dora and the Lost City of Gold and Cub from 2019-12-20T07:26:37

Lin appreciated the cultural respect that went into centering a Latina character and story in the movie Dora and the Lost City of Gold (https://www.loveboat-taiwan.com/about) is a documentary showcasing the experience of diasporic Chinese and Taiwanese youth ...

Ep 31 - Queer Eye in Japan and The Good Place from 2019-11-22T00:15

Queer Eye in Japan (https://www.netflix.com/ca/title/81075744) straddles a fine line between imposing an eminently Western view onto relat...

Ep 30 - Rice Asian Comedy Showcase and Daria from 2019-11-08T00:15

Lin has enjoyed the Rice comedy show (https://www.vongshow.com), a monthly event ( https://www....

Ep 29 - Girls on Porn and End-of-Life Stories from 2019-10-25T00:15

Lin introduces us to the Girls on Porn Podcast (https://headgum.com/girls-on-porn), which delivers matter-of-fact reviews, analysis, and interview...

Ep 28 - Chinese Canadian Archives and Wilder Girls from 2019-10-11T00:15

Lin visits Plum Blossom from the Bitter Cold: Selections from the Chinese Canadian Archive (https://www.tor...

Ep 27 - Interview with Tamsen Parker from 2019-09-27T00:15

We chat with USA Today bestselling author Tamsen Parker about writing political romance, ensuring diverse representation in publishing, and being an introvert in the era of personal branding. Wa...

Ep 26 - Mr. Iglesias and Blown Away from 2019-09-13T00:15

In this PODVERSARY!-Episode, we have a conversation about diversity, the pressure on successful marginalized people to represent their identity and educate the public, and the hierarchy between ...

Ep 25 - Interview with 'Nathan Burgoine from 2019-08-30T00:15

Special guest, 'Nathan Burgoine, joins Lin and Margrit in this episode to chat about diversity in speculative fiction, found families, working with queer youth, and how to be better allies. 

Ep 24 - Treasures of a Desert Kingdom and Friday Black from 2019-08-16T00:15

Lin raves about the ROM special exhibit Treasures of a Desert Kingdom: The Royal Arts of Jodhpur, India (https://www.rom.on.ca/en/exhibitions-galleries/exhibitions/rajasthan). The exhibit featur...

Ep 23 - Food Edition: Tibetan Momos from 2019-08-02T00:15

This special “WoS: Food Edition” episode centres on momos, the Tibetan dumplings that started it all. We chat about the tumultuous Tibetan history, its culinary traditions and diasporic influenc...

Ep 22 - Interview with Dr. Ann Gagné from 2019-07-19T00:15

We chat with Dr. Ann Gagné (https://twitter.com/AnnGagne; http://allthingspedagogical.blogspot.com Listen

Ep 21 - Becoming and No One Can Pronounce My Name from 2019-07-05T00:15

Michelle Obama’s Becoming (https://becomingmichelleobama.com/) is an inspiring and candid memoir that does not flinch away from the hard decisions she’s had to take or the political opinions she...

Ep 20 - The Indian Detective and Tales of the City from 2019-06-21T00:15

Lin enjoyed Netflix’s The Indian Detective (https://www.netflix.com/title/80190279) in which Russell Peters brings his irreverent brand of se...

Ep 19 - Sex&Love and Young Voices Magazine from 2019-06-07T00:15

Lin enjoyed Netflix’s Sex and Love around the World (https://www.netflix.com/title/81011682<...

Ep 18 - Interview with Ekaterine Xia from 2019-05-24T00:15

While in Taipei, Lin interviews author Ekaterine Xia. They chat about being third culture kids and the importance of food to the Taiwanese identity. 

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Ep 17 - Tao People of Lanyu and My Sister, the Serial Killer from 2019-05-10T00:15

As Lin returns from her trip to Taiwan, she shares a little about what she learned of the Tao people, an indigenous group from Lanyu Island off the coast of Taiwan ( from 2019-04-26T00:15

Sour Heart by Jenny Zhang (https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/545731/sour-heart-by-jenny-...

Ep 15 - The Feels and Darius the Great is Not Okay from 2019-04-12T00:15

The Feels (https://www.netflix.com/ca/title/80222256) is a Netflix movie about a lesbian bachelorette party that goes awry when one of the...

Ep 14 - Captain Marvel and I'm Afraid of Men from 2019-03-29T00:15

Lin ventures out of her apartment and braves the real world to see Captain Marvel (https://www.marvel.com/movies/captain-marvel) in the...

Ep 13 - History is Gay and The Poet X from 2019-03-15T00:15

Last month, the publisher Little Brown announced they would publish a problematic book that misgenders a historical figure. When called out on it, the publisher and the author doubled down on th...

Ep 12 - Heritage Journey and Dating Around from 2019-03-01T00:15

In the documentary Heritage Journey (https://youtu.be/dpMsvc2_fXY, https://youtu.be/MJKxu6x7e50), Rondel Hol...

Ep 11 - Carmen Sandiego and Front Desk from 2019-02-15T00:15

If you’ve grown up playing Where in the World Is Carmen Sandiego?, Lin wants you to know that you can relive its delights with Netflix’s epony...

Ep 10 - Netflix Comedy Specials& Heidi Heilig's YA Duology from 2019-02-01T07:59:24

Lin has been enjoying Netflix comedy specials and she recommends a number of shows that tackle immigration and cultural translation with humour and panache. Such as Maz Jobrani’s Immigrant, Vir ...

Episode 9 - Interview with Jackie Lau, plus Crazy Rich Asians, and Outrageous Acts of Science from 2019-01-18T00:01

Jackie Lau (https://jackielaubooks.com, https://twitter.com/JackieLauBooks, The Fosters on Netflix (https://www.netflix.com/ca/title/7028152...

Episode 7 - Seven Fallen Feathers and Echo from 2018-12-21T00:00

Tanya Talaga’s non-fiction book Seven Fallen Feathers illustrates the vicious confluence of racist attitudes and a coloniz...

Episode 6 - Green Book Revisited, Care Work, and Disability Kid Lit from 2018-12-06T00:00

We revisit Green Book, and discuss how marginalized people—or parts of a marginalized existence—are left out of mainstream stories told from a ...

Episode 5 - Charlotte Gray's 2018 Harold Innis Lecture and Less from 2018-11-23T00:00

Lin went to the promisingly titled “Telling Stories in the Age of Historical Amnesia” 2018 Harold Innis Lecture at the University of Toronto, and found it did not live up to the expectations. Listen

Episode 4 - Happiness and Dating You/Hating You from 2018-11-08T00:00

Hope in trying times. Margrit finds refuge in Thích Nhất Hạnh’s book Happiness that combines meditation practices by the renow...

Episode 3 - Everything I Never Told You and The Marvels from 2018-10-26T00:00

Lin liked Celeste Ng’s Everything I Never Told You for its complex and unflinching portrayal of life as a racialized minority ...

Episode 2 - Kat Chow's If We Called Ourselves Yellow, Glasses, and Webtoon from 2018-10-11T00:00

Kat Chow of NPR's Code Switch wrote about using the term "yellow" to describe East Asians in her article If We Called Ourselves Yellow. Lin...

Episode 1 - Green Book and Kids Baking Championship from 2018-09-28T00:00

Lin talks about how much she loved Green Book, winner of TIFF’s People’s Choice Awards, and its realistically diverse supporting cast surrounding the ...

#0.5 Introduction Episode from 2018-09-21T00:00

Welcome to the World of Stories podcast! This is a biweekly show hosted by Hudson Lin and Margrit Talpalaru. Join us as we discover diverse stories the world over.

Margrit  00:...