Lifes Big Questions (w/ Martina & Joe)

The final part of our Pride 2019 episode looks towards the future - How do we share our wounds over our scars? What can we do to continue educating ourselves and others? How do we face hatred with compassion? Thank you for listening - You matter.

Our second part to the Pride 2019 episode takes us through the concept of intersectionality, when individuals belong to multiple minority groups. Martina and Joe describe their struggles with mental illness, expectations, and the concept of grief and loss. Please note that this part of the Pride 2019 episode mentions the concept of suicide. Listener discretion is advised.

The first part to our Pride 2019 episodes - we reflect on our previous understandings of queerness, language, recent attacks on the LGBTQ2+ community, pioneers and advocates, and look at what led us to the Pride we know today.

A longer episode than usual, but we have lots to catch up on! Martina shares her travel tips and realizations from her first time in Mexico. Joe contemplates our heritage from a European tour of the Canadian Battlefields. We both share our love of meeting new people, trying new food, and excreting in new toilets.

Joe recollects stories from the past, including meeting the in-laws for the first time in an interracial relationship.

This week's episode tackles a common question for people of visible minorities: "Where are you from?" Martina and Joe explore this loaded question and its possibilities using stories from their childhood, teaching, and family. ***(PLUS BONUS STORIES IN EPISODE 2B)***

From Amazing Race-ing to Instant Pot-ing, meet Martina & Joe as they share how their Tupperware bond began, how they discovered the remarkable gift of teaching Home Economics, and how they’ve been tackling life’s trials with humour and humility.