Bruha Baddies

Swapping Places with Historical Figures, guest starring Vera Blossom

What if we had a time machine? Who would we swap places with in History and why? Sitting down with Vera Blossom, Jean and Nicole re-imagine with them about these known and not so known individuals. Come listen to this wild, funny, and pensive history lesson...

Featuring: María Orosa, Carmen Rosales, and Landonis Balthazar "Lando" Calrissian

Honorable Mention: Zheng Yi Sao (pirate)

Recs

Vera

• Letting yourself eat easy food
• Trader Joes Vegan Tikka Masala & Premade Tomato Feta Soup
• Jollibee Drive through on Rainbow Boulevard
• Generic Brand Lactaid

Nicole

• Radio Soulwax Presents As Heard on Radio Soulwax Pt 2
  
• Lactose-free milk
• Communication with a grain of salt because Mercury is in retrograde until the 22nd.

Jean

• Do nothing self care.
  
• Visit a psychic.
  
• Check on your funny friends
  

Sources for Carmen

https://nolisoli.ph/95021/filipina-heroes-women-in-war-ayuvallos-20210309/

https://www.esquiremag.ph/long-reads/features/carmen-rosales-a00304-20200303-lfrm

https://m.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=5017844391621970&id=111131982293260

https://www.pacificatrocities.org/the-legacy-of-the-asian-women-soldier.html

Sources for María

-Google/Ecosia/Wikipedia/Firefox

-The work of Filipino foo historian Doreen Fernandez

-Little Manila in the Heart for Filipino Oral History on the now extinct Filipinotown that once existed in Stockton, CA

LIVE RECORDING with Bulosan Center Conference: Bruha Baddies and the Transnational Magic of Digital Kwentuhan

Recorded on 5/29/21 1:15pm-2:00pm, Session E at the 2021 Bulosan Conference Center for Filipinx Studies Research Center.

 

BB thanks all attendees who held and shared space with us.

 

Host Recs:

Jean

1. Seek spiritual advisors like Krisell Can
2. Einstein’s donuts, don’t sleep on double the frosting
3. Dig for more intersectional Filipinx podcasts! Make your own too!

Daniel

1. Google “Free Stuff to Do in ___”. If y’all are making moves in the wanderlust mood + on a budget + safety. That fills up the itinerary quick, without leaving a hole in your bulsas. 
2. Being a plant parent -- Pothos Plant: low maintenance. Had one for a whole year, and she’s thriving! Gives your living space a little green :) 
3. Mindful cooldown

Nicole

1. TRESE ON NETFLIX, Y’ALL. June 11th
2. Toro Y Moi/Chaz Bundick’s cover of Joe Bataan’s “Ordinary Man”
3. MOISTURIZE AFTER GETTING OUT OF THE SHOWER.

Banana Ketchup: BB Catchup & Reflect Post-Vaccination

It’s been a full year of remote recording. Have we grown? How? What setbacks have we experienced? How much did the 2nd vaccine shot kick our asses? Today on Bruha Baddies, we investigate the psychological and physical impacts of the pan de ube.

**content/activation warning on self harm

**Join us on Saturday May 25th from 1:15 - 2 pm for a live recording from the 2021 virtual Bulosan Center for Filipinx Studies Research Conference. The conference takes place on Friday the 24th and Saturday the 25th from 1 - 6 pm. This event is free and registration is required at tinyurl.com/registerbulocon2021. For more information, follow @bulosancenter on IG

**We are in solidarity with past guest (@cuteflesh on IG) Vera Blossom and those at The Believer Magazine and the Black Mountain Institute who are impacted by the institutional white supremacist actions of its former EIC/executive director. More info: https://desertnote-97667.medium.com/

Fan Shout-outs

@softbabebloom

Gabe Oliveros

 

Recommendations:

Nicole

1. Yaeji’s (@kraejiyaeji on IG) AAPIHM playlist on Apple Music
2. Japanese dj named Towa Tei (@towatei on IG).
   
3. No chicken nuggies on the 19th. McDonald’s workers are striking for better wages.
   

Jean

1. Whale Gummies from Winco
2. Nonviolent Communication Workbook @co_conspiratorpress
3. 9 Round Kickboxing Henderson- QueerPOC Owned Gym

Daniel

1. Short-dashed-clothes: Suns out, guns out. Sky’s out, thighs out.
2. FirstBook Marketplace: for book-adjacent positions and/or organizations who serve low-income, underserved communities.

Filipinx/a/o Leadership

Leadership is a sensitive topic in our Filipinx community. And the reasons for this are layered. Being part of a Diasporic community and histories of dictatorship, there can be clashing definitions of what leadership, community, progress, and legacy mean. Sometimes our best intentions to come together, operate in mechanisms that drive us apart. Join us today on BB as we reminisce about our interactions within culture when it comes to Filipinx leadership.

 

Shout outs: @tasiamacaraeg (Tasia Macaraeg) @mommavie (Vilma Gorre) @dcsantos9 (Daniel Santos) @desire_encouragement (Desiré Galvez)

Shout outs :

Dr. Constancio Arnaldo https://www.unlv.edu/people/constancio-arnaldo

Dr. Francisco Sy https://www.unlv.edu/people/francisco-sy

Jason Sarmiento https://www.library.ucdavis.edu/author/jason-sarmiento/

 

Recommendations:

Daniel

1. A feelings wheel
2. Pistachio muffins
   
3. Water

Nicole: 

1. Those lil bulalo instant noodle cups.
2. @iaf_inc
3. Hoka x Cotopaxi collab @rei
   

Jean

1. @djmoeejito
2. @perennialpress Marinna Benzon
   
3. @wastedinkzinedistro

Filipino Dessert: What's to love & Why it Matters

It’s a celebration! We’re dreaming up of all the best treats in our culture that we individually love. Behind every treat, there is a story of nostalgia imprinting itself into our taste buds and memories. This episode is about Filipino Desserts! We’d love to hear your stories of your favs while we share ours!

 

Recommendations:

Nicole

1. high compression BIKE SHORTS and FULL-LENGTH LEGGINGS
2. @decarlojraspberry on Tiktok
   
3. @kuyateco

Daniel

1. Amboy: Recipes from the Filipino-American Dream by Alvin Cailan
2. Cafe86 @cafe_86lasvegas
   
3. Minor Feelings by Cathy Park Hong

Jean

1. PetCo Dog Inflatable collars
   
2. UNLV Care Center
   
3. Check out Art Day with Beyond Art Journal on April 3rd! @beyondartjournal
   

Are We Our Parents?

Much of our identity is shaped by how our parents raised us. Are their expectations of us based on their parents’ expectations of them? Do we carry those same expectations onto others in our lives? Is this a uniquely Filipino experience? If so, how?Today, we dig deep into the people we call our parents. Did/does Diasporic parenting impact our values? ARE WE OUR PARENTS?

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Instagram friends to follow: Drag King @Kreme Inakuchi & True Crime Stories Filipino Style @lagimpodcast

Past Guests dropping in hellos Ria Yap and Diana Calica

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Recommendations:

Nicole:

1. Sleeping with two weighted blankets.
2. Animal Crossing New Horizons
3. Suckin’ On A Chilli Dog

Daniel

1. Filipino Ethnomusicology textbook from UCLA: https://californiarevealed.org/islandora/object/cavpp%3A209355
2. Audre Lorde audiobook: Sister Outsider
3. Sending this podcast episode to your kapatids kasi you’re not the only one affected by your farentz

Jean (wanting to share 3 concepts)

1. Look up what ptsd is
2. Look up how to hold space for others and yourself
3. Wish Nicole a Happy Birthday by sending them things @colesmcgee

Language Barriers in our Community (Filipinx/a/o)

One of the many indicators in our diasporic community as Filipinx is language barriers. Philippines has many dialects, first/second/third gen and beyond are sometimes raised without the dialect of their family, parents make intentional choices about being an english only assimilated home, and the list of barriers upon barriers are complex, layered, and nuanced. 

Today we sit with the co-hosts (Daniel Nero, Nicole Espinosa, and Jean Munson) on their experiences with language barriers, navigating in and around that, or experiencing the marginalization that occurs when one language is superior over the other.

Host Recommendations:

Nicole:

1. @tofutees is a young Black creative in Las Vegas with dope antiracist merch including embroidered dad hats, enamel pins and ZIIIIIINES. 
2. @missminilife on IG and YT. They’re a miniatures artist who is Black. They recently uploaded a video of a diorama of George Washington Carver’s laboratory.
3. Dr. Wanni Lie and her Tita assistant at Charleston Smiles Dentistry on the corner of East Charleston and Nellis. When I go in for major work, Dr. Lie gets me a prescription for 1 singulair drug. It helps. I have a lot of anxiety around dentists and teeth.

Daniel

1. Shiny Stockings, by Count Basie
2. McDo Pokemon Cards: Torchic and Cyndaquil
3. Toast with butter and cinnamon sugar.

Jean

1. @tagalogwithkirby (Joanna Your Tagalog Ate)
2. @surbiborkay_art
3. @lagimpodcast

Happy love YOU for YOU! In Her Purpose Special Guests Appearance!

Whether you celebrate Valentines, Gal-entines, or Pal-entines day, don't forget YOU in the equation! Jean Munson sits down with Co-Founders of IN HER PURPOSE book, coaching, and business Rose Buado and Jennifer Redondo-Marquez. Finding yourself can be a daunting task and this collaborative pinay conversation shares how you or anyone you know can navigate that transition with IN HER PURPOSE as a resource and support (especially in a community where women are expected to give more of themselves everyday to others).

 

Recommendations:

Rose

1. In Her Purpose Ube extract on ihpshop.com 
2. @timeless.love.creations on Instagram activity worksheets for virtual students 
3. Purpose Check Up 

Jennifer

1. 1 Gallon Water Bottle 
2. Level Up Course starting Monday 
3. Chez Couture Straps 

Jean

1. Check out In Her Purpose today and share this episode out to continue the great and good things Rose and Jennifer are doing for the community.
2. Small Netflix binge recommendation because it got me thinking about social media impact with conspiracies and cyberbullying: CRIME SCENE The Vanishing at the Cecil Hotel
3. And the Social Dilemma

 

Happy love YOU for YOU! In Her Purpose Special Guests Appearance!

Whether you celebrate Valentines, Gal-entines, or Pal-entines day, don't forget YOU in the equation! Jean Munson sits down with Co-Founders of IN HER PURPOSE book, coaching, and business Rose Buado and Jennifer Redondo-Marquez. Finding yourself can be a daunting task and this collaborative pinay conversation shares how you or anyone you know can navigate that transition with IN HER PURPOSE as a resource and support (especially in a community where women are expected to give more of themselves everyday to others).

 

Recommendations:

Rose

1. In Her Purpose Ube extract on ihpshop.com 
2. @timeless.love.creations on Instagram activity worksheets for virtual students 
3. Purpose Check Up 

Jennifer

1. 1 Gallon Water Bottle 
2. Level Up Course starting Monday 
3. Chez Couture Straps 

Jean

1. Check out In Her Purpose today and share this episode out to continue the great and good things Rose and Jennifer are doing for the community.
2. Small Netflix binge recommendation because it got me thinking about social media impact with conspiracies and cyberbullying: CRIME SCENE The Vanishing at the Cecil Hotel
3. And the Social Dilemma

 

Folklore about Familiars: THE PET EPISODE!

CW/TWarning

As bruha/x with our witchy Walang Hiya ways, all the cohosts have pets aka familiars. Pets that we refer to often as our family members. I wanted to look up what the cultural relationship Filipinx have with animals. The top 3 things came up in Jean's google search,

1. We eat dogs.
2. Dogs are the number 1 pets by Filipinos followed by cats. (SURPRISINGLY!!!??)

This information on relationships conflict and the limited research creates a gap in knowing the actual closeness and fondness that exists in our culture with nature’s creatures. So today, our Bruha Baddies team sits down to reflect on familiars/pets and how they impacted us in healthy ways (mind & body) as well.

Sources used:

Allan B. de Guzman, Denise S. Cucueco, Ian Benedict V. Cuenco, Nigel Gerome C. Cunanan, Robel T. Dabandan & Edgar Joseph E. Dacanay (2009) Petmanship: Understanding Elderly Filipinos' Self-Perceived Health and Self-Esteem Captured from their Lived Experiences with Pet Companions, Educational Gerontology, 35:11, 963-989, DOI: 10.1080/03601270802708418 @ University of Santo Tomas

 

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Recommendations

Nicole

1. VCA Mountain Vista on East Flamingo
2. Brown Plant Girls on Etsy
3. Bellesa Boutique dot com

Daniel

1. 1. Using your public library: I got a book (about bisexuality in the ancient world) through Interlibrary Loan. I also got 5 other books delivered to my “home” library because I requested them. I also listen to great courses and ebooks through the library apps. So many things to learn about. In transit: a book about Asian myths -- two are from the PI.
   2. Cast Iron Skillet: Truly a nice thing to have in the kitchen. They’re easy to maintain (only water and a non-metal scrubber, no soap –– then oil it up), and they’re good for cooking burgers, steaks, biscuits and gravy, stews, oh my god. So good so good. I’m southern now
   3. Scriabin Etude 42 no 5: For the pianists out there -- the tempo is marked as “affanato” meaning “breathless” or “without breath”. So the whole time, the melody is playing within a  storm, like it’s trying to get out of chaos --- and when it does, it’s pure tenderness. (But there’s only small bits of tenderness.) This piece makes me cry on really sad days. Give it a listen on YouTube.

Rose

1. Listen to classical versions of songs. Makes you feel fancy (I’m having a Bridgerton phase)
2. Trying not to take myself too seriously! I feel being able to joke about myself HEALTHily is a good way to have some sense of reflection and understanding
3. Kristian Kabuay - baybayin.com

Jean

1. Headspace the App for peace of mind and practice for noting (clearing the mind from anxious to do lists, self flagellation, and being mindful in the present moment)
2. Drops the App is for intellectual stimulation (teaching myself tagalog bit by bit and was originally recommended by Nicole) It’s funny because the words I have a sense of familiarity is all the food terms like talong, hipon, and kape.
3. Emjoy the App is for exploring my sexuality, kinks, self esteem, and desires. and There’s audio for masturbating to or exploring deeply rooted sexual trauma. There’s queer content on here as well.