SEASON 2: DISTANCE

Distance reflects more than just a physical separation — it’s also the emotional chasm between loved ones, the cultural gaps that divide us, the philosophical distances we must traverse in search of understanding. 

For those of us from racialized communities, distance also marks the difference and division that white supremacy has sown within ourselves and between our communities. 

Join us as we explore all this and more in an all-new season of the Living Hyphen Podcast. Listen wherever you listen to podcasts.

Living Hyphen is proud to have been selected as part of the HotDocs Podcast Festival’s Opening Act program in 2022.

MEET YOUR CO-HOSTS

 
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Trisha Gregorio

Trisha is a versatile writer, editor, and podcast producer with a robust background in storytelling, marketing and publishing. She has honed her craft through impactful roles at Zg Stories and as the 2022 TD Fellow on Disability and Inclusion at The Walrus, where she excelled in creating engaging content and fostering meaningful narratives. 

With a passion for community-building, they strive to create spaces where empathy and connection can flourish through rich stories. Most recently, they have been longlisted for the CBC Short Story Prize, and have received manuscript mentorship from Diaspora Dialogues. 

Driven by their belief in the transformative power of storytelling, Trisha continues to push boundaries, seeking new avenues to share compelling narratives that resonate on a profound level.

Justine Abigail Yu

Justine Abigail Yu is the Founder of Living Hyphen. She is an award-winning workshop facilitator whose work with Living Hyphen has been featured on international, national, and local media outlets including the Globe & Mail, CTV National News, and the CBC. She was also named a “Changemaker” by the Toronto Star in October 2021.

Justine Abigail is a fierce advocate for equity and anti-oppression. Her mission is to stir the conscience and spur social change.

 

SEASON 1: HOMESTUCK

As we continue to live through this pandemic, we have been asked to stay at home, to quarantine, and to ultimately, maintain a “social distance” from our loved ones. We have been challenged to find new and creative ways to show our love from afar. But for those of us who are part of a diaspora or who have been displaced in some way – voluntarily or forced, right here on this land or abroad – we know all too well all the gradients and textures of loving from afar. 

And so, for this first season of the Living Hyphen Podcast, we’ve collected stories from a multitude of different storytellers across what we now know as Canada to explore this concept of “homestuck” – whatever home might be, whatever one’s relationship to their home(s) might be, and whatever being stuck can mean.

Join us on this journey in exploring our hyphenated identities and how it all connects to the most trying time of our generation.

The first season of the Living Hyphen podcast is generously supported by #RisingYouth, a program led by TakingITGlobal that offers grants for youth to kickstart their own community service projects bringing their ideas into action. Funded by the Government of Canada under the Canada Service Corps initiative, #RisingYouth has funded over 4500 youth projects all across the country. Learn more at www.risingyouth.ca.

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