The Cut Fruit Podcast

Jun 27 2024 13 ep. 51 mins 1
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The Cut Fruit podcast: A Queer Conversation, is a podcast where we have honest conversations that explore the nuances and complexities of what it means to be Queer and Asian through intimate conversations with real people. Each episode explores a guest’s formative experiences that helped shape who they are, how they view the world, and the ways they engage in community. 

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Episode 112: Dr. Dustin Domingo on Filipino Culture and Parents, Coming out at Work, and "What We Wish We Knew about Being Queer and Filipino in America"

Jun 27 2024 49 mins  
Dr. Moon interviews Dustin Domingo about how he navigated his Filipino and queer identity, coming out to Filipino parents, why he decided to publish a book for queer Filipinos, and what it meant for him to be out in his workplace. Dr. Dustin Domingo is an artist, educator, and writer from Southern California's Inland Empire. Dr. Domingo holds a doctorate in organizational leadershi

Episode 111: Carrie Zhang on starting Asian Mental Health Project, Queer Expansiveness, and Asian Parents

Jun 06 2024 63 mins  
In this episode, Dr. Moon interviews Carrie Zhang on what it means to live expansively as a Queer Asian person. She shares about her own mental health journey, what led her to start Asian Mental Health Project, and navigating her family’s reactions to her coming out. Carrie dives into the nuances of her expectations of her parents in accepting her queerness. CW: sexual assault �

Episode 110: Ryan Fukuda on Being Blasian American, Coming Out to Affirming Parents, and the Importance of Spirituality in His Life

May 08 2024 54 mins  
Dr. Moon interviews Ryan Fukuda who shares about how he navigated being Black, Japanese, and Queer, within a family system that broke gender and parenting stereotypes. He also dives into his parents’ affirmation of his queer identity, and the experience of growing up Christian to enrolling in a psychic and energy healing school. RYAN FUKUDA (he/him) is a LA-raised/Portland-based

Episode 109: On Immigration, Binational Marriage, and LGBTQIA+ Mental Health

Apr 04 2024 49 mins  
Dr. Moon interviews Dr. Nadine Nakamura, a trailblazer in LGBTQIA+ mental health research and teaching. Dr. Nakamura shares about her own experience of immigrating to the US from Sweden, the unique challenges of being in a binational marriage, and what she has learned from being a professor and researcher in this field. Dr. Nadine Nakamura was born in Stockholm, Sweden and grew up

Episode 108: Clara Lee on Being an Asian Parent to a Queer Child

Mar 14 2024 73 mins  
In this episode, Dr. Moon interviews Clara Lee, who shares about her experience of parenting her son who came out first as bi as a teenager, and then trans a few years later. Clara dives deep into her story of immigration, her initial reactions when her child came out to her, how she navigated her own family, and what she learned about herself throughout the process of supporting h

Episode 107: Melody Li and Dr. Valerie Yeo on Collective Grief and Sacred Rage: A Conversation on Palestinian Liberation

Jan 16 2024 62 mins  
This is a special episode, where Dr. Moon sits down with Melody Li and and Valerie Yeo in person to talk about the ongoing genocide in Gaza and of the Palestinian people. We dive into what it means to fight for the freedom of Palestinian people, the importance of doing this work in community, and how colonization impacts our capacity to experience collective grief and sacred rage.

Episode 106: Liz Kleinrock on Bi, Jewish, and an Advocate for Mental Health

Jan 04 2024 46 mins  
Dr. Moon interviews Liz Kleinrock on her lived experience of being bisexual, and the intersection of her queer and Jewish identity. She shares about the misconceptions of being bi, what helped her queer identity development, the ways therapy has helped her as she processed her intersecting identities, and how she works to de-stigmatize mental health in her classroom. This episode w

Episode 105: Ray Mathoda on Her Journey as a Lesbian Sikh American

Dec 14 2023 66 mins  
Dr. Moon interviews Ray Mathoda on her experience of immigrating from India and coming out in the 90's after meeting her wife at a high school reunion, and how cultural expectations to have an arranged marriage impacted her view of love and attraction. She also shares about her complicated and painful relationship with her parents over the last couple of decades, the grief of givin

Episode 104: Erin McGrady on Breaking Up With Her Therapist + Queer Interracial Marriage

Nov 30 2023 48 mins  
Dr. Moon interviews Erin McGrady, on breaking up with her therapist. She walks us through how she made her decision, when she knew it was the right time, and the guilt that came along with it. Erin also shares about being in a queer interracial marriage with her wife Caroline, and why they both prioritize mental health. Erin McGrady (she/her/hers) is a queer Asian American, transra

Episode 103: Dr. Jan E. Estrellado on Moving from Shame to Freedom as a Filipinx Trans Person

Nov 10 2023 51 mins  
Dr. Moon interviews Dr. Jan E. Estrellado, on their experience of being Filipinx and Trans. Jan shares about growing up in the Catholic church with a sense of shame for who they are, and how they found freedom and authenticity through relationships. They also touch on parenting two beautiful children with their wife, and how they have set boundaries with their own parents to protec