Bruha Baddies

Season 3: Redefining Rest

Raised on the notion of meritocracy and that hard work leads to success, we reflect on work-from-home conditions from 2020. Does it challenge the Model Minority. If so, how? By making us negotiate whether or not we deserve to practice pausing. Guilt, being called “lazy,” and having to prove self worth through productivity may have come up for our Bruha Baddies hosts.

• First BB RECS in 2021:

1. 1. 1. Jean
         • Good pillows.
           
         • I am Co. 30 day affirmation cards
         • Being my own friend zine by @arcadell
      2. Daniel:
         • Read Harder Challenge from Book Riot
         • Chips Ahoy and Milk at night
         • Ginger Ale BoldAle 8
      3. Nicole:
         • Manta Sleep masks
         • Digital Passion Planner
         • The Bahay Kubo club on the Clubhouse app (co-created by Erwin B Valencia and Elise Bernal)
           

Season 2 Finale: 2020 Burnout

Half the team of Bruha Baddies (Daniel Nero and Jean Munson) reflect on the year and the meaning of life after 2020. Close out your year with some of these truths about self discovery with your favorite magical radicals!

Bruha Baddies to return on January 17!

And in case the holidays are hard, lonely, or boring, feel free to listen to any and all episodes on your commute or chill time. You've never alone on BB!

Art and Mental Health Series Part 3 with Co-Zi LV (@cozilv), Special Guest Gina Parham (@artofgina)

Many times in our Filipinx/a/o community art is something to stray from, romanticize, or only hold value if it's lucrative. On Bruha Baddies, we want to identify folks that use it as part of an overall healing for themselves that eventually encourages others to participate in art making too. This 3 installment brings it back from Cali and Canada, to Las Vegas.

Meet team Co-Zi Las Vegas (Comics and Zines Las Vegas) and within the team is Nicole Espinosa (BB Co-Host), Jean Munson (BB Co-Host), and third co-founder Gina Parham (@artofgina) as they discuss their friendship and community building through their art. Collectively they talk about their different journeys that led to their healing and planning committee.

 

Episode Recommendations:

• Nicole
  • Milk + T (@milkandt) → Y’all know how I feel about the electoral college, but I’m gonna give my measly dollars to a QPOC business. IDGAF where the 45 fandom clowns have to go to get a boba and their yellow fever rocks off. Milk + T ain’t for them. Anyway, pleased as punch with the customer service at the West Side location, my Under Oat drink and the plethora of BOBA WASTED sticker swag Milk + T has to offer.
  • Samonte Cruz (@samontecruzstudios) → They’re a Canadian-based badass who posts really cool goldsmithing content and are rooted in decolonization (business ethics, land back, ancestral history, self care, etc). I stan TF out of them. They also made my wedding ring, which I get hella compliments on. Get to know more about them in an interview posted on their IG and buy from their shop.
  • Tron (@losingshape) → I’ve been in the TronDon since Livejournal, lol! Representation matters especially when someone who looks and loves like you is embedding ink on your skin. 10/10 would get tattooed again post pandemic. In the meantime, throw some dollars at her online store. P.S. Her partner Rainbow makes dope press-on nails.
• Gina
  • I just rewatched this documentary, so go watch But I Love The Zine, it’s a documentary on Youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kMOGGY4tqXE
  • Check out Noname Book Club for some great reading suggestions! They highlight books by authors of color. https://nonamebooks.com/
  • If you’re trying to learn a language, stick to it! In case anyone needed to hear it. 

• Jean
  • Keeping a paper calendar, a good friend during zoom meetings
  • Headspace app for meditation (currently doing appreciation series)
  • Being open to delays in life, asking and articulating ya sick!

Where to find Co-Zi LV:

Facebook facebook.com/cozilv

Instagram @cozilv

Website cozilv.com

Email cozilasvegas@gmail.com (send us zines!)

 

 

Art and Mental Health Series Part 2 with Keet (@makeshiftlove)

Many times in our Filipinx/a/o community art is something to stray from, romanticize, or only hold value if it's lucrative. On Bruha Baddies, we want to identify folks that use it as part of an overall healing for themselves that eventually encourages others to participate in art making too.

Keet Geniza is our first international guest on Bruha Baddies and hails all the way from Toronto, Canada. They are an illustrator and they open up about artist block and social media's impact on art sharing. Tune in for their tips how doodling can save your day! We're fans of Keet's ability to artistically highlight fat experiences among pinays/pinxys, fat women of color, and queer women of color.

 

Ways to find Keet Geniza:

@makeshiftlove on Instagram

Etsy Store

Art and Mental Health Series Part 1 with Kayleen (@surbiborkay_art)

Content Warning (CW): Sexual Assault

Many times in our Filipinx/a/o community art is something to stray from, romanticize, or only hold value if it's lucrative. On Bruha Baddies, we want to identify folks that use it as part of an overall healing for themselves that eventually encourages others to participate in art making too.

Kayleen is a polymath with art, counseling, and academics. In her avenue of zine making, she re-authors her survivor story and reaffirm her truths helping online and in person communities. Her zines have been conversation openers, and also a source of controversy among family, friends, and fans.

Follow Kayleen's work @surbiborkay and may you find the courage to journal, create dialogue, and own your story too.

BB Recommendations:

Jean:

1. Jackfruit = LANGKA
   
2. Mute Notifications in your settings
3. Muting friends on a temporary basis

Kayleen:

1. Growing my own garden
2. Playing guitar and singing along to cheesy Filipino ballads

Nicole:

1. I AM OBSESSED WITH KYLIE MINOGUE’S NEW ALBUM AND IDC.
2. Beet juice

 

Cultural Fears with Peers

Content Warning (CW)

October is many things this month: Filipino American History Month, Domestic Violence Awareness Month, and Halloween season.

All these themes play apart in this conversation between Jean, Nicole, and Daniel. Join the ebb and flow of talking about trauma, taboos, and teka muna!

And as always, there's recommendations of the things we love at the end of the episode that help bring joy and fun into our lives and yours.

 

Here's a few:

Daniel:

1. Air fryers cuz fried food
2. Advocating for yourself at work: Coaching teachers didn’t go so well lol
3. Pokemon Sword and Shield DLCs instead of reading

Jean:

1. Comics out of my Comfort Zone (The Magic Fish by Trung Le Nguyen & Invisible Differences: A Story of Asperger's, Adulting, and Living a Life in Full Color)
2. Jean Nidetch Women's Center- Healing work in Academia needing constant replication and emulation in more spaces

Nicole:

1. Tennis’ spoopy cover of the Carpenter’s song “Superstar”
2. A ratchet-wrench-screwdriver set that doesn’t belong to me.
3. HOMEMADE S’MORES

White Partners (Part 1 of Many): Centering our Filipina/x/o Identities in our Interracial Relationships

Half the Bruha Baddies team, Jean Munson and Daniel Nero converse about their interracial relationships with white folks. Placing self love grounded in their culture first helps navigate how to build healthy relationships with partners from a different ethnicity.

Experiencing cultural stigmas, racism, and difficult conversations, the co-hosts manage to find and manifest joy in straight and queer relationships.

Content warning: violence

Secret Mom Episode: Being a Nurse, Patient, Parent, & Daughter during Covid

On this episode, meet the woman who fondly calls Jean Munson (podcast co-founder) Bruha. Recorded during the last week of care taking her mom, Jean and Virgie (Mom) sit down to have a candid conversation about living together as adults and the role reversal of caring for each other.

 

If you liked or related to this episode, write us a review or letter! This was a very vulnerable recording since the generational cultural barriers of sharing created a bit of hesitation from Jean's mom to trust that her stories/experience/love matter.

Magic Summer Wrap Up Party

We survived the Las Vegas summer ya'll (pandemic and all)! Tune into this catch up session between friends (Nicole, Jean, and Daniel) and the recommendations they have on new and old things (encouraged by our Listener series guest Gabi Oliveros)

 

Let's "FALL" into it! Listen to who's in love, who's got into accidents, and who's having health issues. Yikes! Did we mention we're surviving and laughing at the same time?

 

Here's a preview of some of their fun recs...

NEW Filipina/x podcasts:

@everanddoe

@magandz

@bobatalk

 

Books:

Minor Feelings by Cathy Park Hong

 

Shows:

Undone

Downtown Abbey

 

Art:

@kurboi

Listener Tribute Series Part 3 with Camille Ungco

We moved the proverbial Bruha Baddies plane from Vegas, to the Bay area, and now to the Pacific Northwest in Seattle to talk to one of our long time listeners Camille Ungco. She grew up in New Jersey and is now on the pursuit of a Doctoral degree.

Tune in to how we mutually cheer, learn, and listen to each other no matter the distance.