Episodes
Saturday Oct 15, 2022
La Presión Familia (Family Pressure)
Saturday Oct 15, 2022
Saturday Oct 15, 2022
Encanto shared a strong message, let's dive in!
Friday Feb 25, 2022
The COVID Files II: More Minorities in Medicine
Friday Feb 25, 2022
Friday Feb 25, 2022
The COVID Files is a series of low-quality audio, but high-quality conversations recorded in Summer 2020. In episode 2, Roslyn chats with Heather Anderson, a passionate first-generation Ghanaian-American on her journey of becoming a doctor! She speaks on her passions ranging from her faith, afrobeat music, medicine, and women’s health. Heather emphasizes the positive impacts of having more minorities in the medical field.
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Music produced by Stbrn Sal
Friday Feb 11, 2022
Just Kin Things
Friday Feb 11, 2022
Friday Feb 11, 2022
It's always a wonderful thing when folks from the kin can relate to anything and everything! Kevin Forero is a first-generation Colombian-American and first-gen college student studying marketing. Roslyn and Kevin connect and share their stories on their Americanized experiences. Topics range from college, visiting back home, immigrant parents, society, and more!
Kevin's podcast: TOG Podcast
Music produced by Stbrn Sal
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Friday Jan 28, 2022
The COVID Files I: Solace in Roots
Friday Jan 28, 2022
Friday Jan 28, 2022
The COVID Files is a series of episodes recorded from Summer 2020 featuring low-quality audio, but high-quality conversations. In episode 1, my older sister Jennifer shares her experiences with living back home in her native country after spending 18 years in America. Jennifer was born in Ivory Coast, raised in America, and is now living in Ivory Coast with no rush to return to America. We discuss language, accents, cultural insecurities, and her coming to the Christianity faith.
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Music produced by Stbrn Sal !
Thursday Jan 13, 2022
SPECIAL Across Borders: Moran’s Story on Finding Her Freedom
Thursday Jan 13, 2022
Thursday Jan 13, 2022
*WARNING: This episode contains content regarding sexual violence that may be triggering and not be suitable for some listeners. Listener discretion is advised*
Moran is an Israeli woman living in Dublin, Ireland. She is on the journey of rediscovering her true self 10 years following her history of prostitution. Moran is the CEO and founder of the "I Want Out", a project to help women, like herself, exit prostitution. "I Want Out" is inspired by her journey.
Connect with Moran and find out more about her project via email: iwantoutinfo@gmail.com
Music produced by Stbrn Sal
Friday Dec 31, 2021
Year in Review: recapping the year of AMERIKINIZED
Friday Dec 31, 2021
Friday Dec 31, 2021
Roslyn underlines the common themes among the first-gen kin that were naturally discussed in the show. Themes include language, the immigrant family dynamic, blackness, and parenting. Compiled are different segments from previous episodes that shed light on these themes.
Episode list:
Pride and Resentment
Do the Best You Can
Bring Me My Belt: Growing Up With African Parents
Phil Holland: on surviving police violence
Keep Moving Forward: An Arab American Story
Healing Work and Liberation with Thu Nguyen
SPECIAL Across Borders: We Need a New World
Society Told Me I’m Not Black: A “Father Hotep” interview
Music produced by Stbrn Sal
Show Instagram: @amerikinized be sure to check out the link in bio!
Friday Dec 17, 2021
Keep Moving Forward: An Arab American Story
Friday Dec 17, 2021
Friday Dec 17, 2021
Rudy Salo is a man of many identities, with one being a first-generation Arab American who grew up in Orange County, CA in the era of the First Gulf War. He shares his experience of living in this anti-Arab climate and his evolution of taking pride in his Arab American heritage. Rudy also speaks on the significance of Arab American representation in the media as he grew up with "no Arab American heroes".
Check out his article, "Arab American Heritage Month Q+A with Rudy Salo" here!
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Music produced by STBRN SAL
Friday May 28, 2021
Healing Work and Liberation with Thu Nguyen
Friday May 28, 2021
Friday May 28, 2021
Thu Nguyen is a proud Vietnamese refugee who immigrated to the United States with their family at one year old. Thu is also a youth worker and the first non-binary candidate for Worcester City Council At-Large. Thu sees the need and fulfills it with passion and dedication to their community. In this episode, we discuss community and the power we all hold to make an impact. Thu shares experiences from their upbringing and discusses healing work as well as their focus on liberation and justice for their community and beyond!
Thursday May 20, 2021
Do the Best You Can
Thursday May 20, 2021
Thursday May 20, 2021
Amanda Rodriguez is a mental health advocate and enthusiast amongst many other roles including being a mother and an occupational therapist. From an occupational therapy lens, Amanda and Roslyn discuss mental health, sensory processing, trauma-informed care, the ACEs study, and their experiences working with youth in mental health settings.
Music produced by Stbrn Sal
Thursday Feb 25, 2021
Black Voices Heard: VOLUME II
Thursday Feb 25, 2021
Thursday Feb 25, 2021
In Volume II of Black Voices Heard, we explore the theme of Black Excellence as a way to redefine Black History Month. You will hear voicemails from black voices sharing on their black excellence, black-owned businesses, as well as non-black voices acknowledging and celebrating the black people in their lives.
Black-owned businesses featured in this episode to check out:
All original music produced by Stbrn Sal