The Halo Halo Podcast

Episodes 313 - Wellness Accounts and Self-Care with Mailyne

Sigi and Jezzie welcome back friend of The Halo Halo Podcast and fellow creative, Mailyne in The Halo Halo Virtual Studios for this episode. The group discusses Wellness Accounts they follow on Instagram for inspiration, resources, education and physical and mental health. They then go into a deeper discussion on the definition of self-care, how it relates to activism and how we prioritize it. Our fixing of the week reminds us to ritualize our self care regimen. Once it becomes a ritual, it is harder for you to abandon.
To find out more about Mailyne, check out her personal and not-for profit ventures IG accounts, @iammailyne, @kilammedia,  @inourtongues and @artinactionottawa, and visit her business website at Firegrove Studio. 
In the mix:
IG: @the.drtherapinay
SUPERHUMAN Podcast with Wil Dasovich on Spotify,
IG: @thenapministry,
IG: @nedratawwab
 
 
 
 
 

Episode 312.625 - Empowerment through Solidarity and Mourning

On this extra Social Justice episode of The Halo Halo Podcast, Jezzie and Sigi take a moment to reflect on the shootings in Atlanta and anti-Asian hate covered in the media as revealed by the pandemic. They discuss the spectrum of prejudice and the overwhelming range of emotions that the Asian Community is feeling at the moment. Jezzie encourages us to mourn together as way to bring about global justice, as suggested by Judith Butler, who makes that assertion in Precarious Life: The Powers of Mourning and Violence.
Jezzie and Sigi candidly share their thoughts and feelings.  We at The Halo Halo Podcast encourage our listeners to do the same and share your thoughts of grief and loss with others. In mourning together, we empower our community and ourselves.

Episode 312.5 - Contrary to Popular Belief Warmup (Lost Episode)

Sigi reaches into the Halo Halo Podcast Lost Episode Archives for this warm up. The guys expose some surprising tidbits in their pop culture consumption. Find out what movie Sigi has never watched even though people have gifted it to him to view. And get ready to hear what pop songstress’ oeuvre that hasn’t graced Jezzie’s turntable!

Episode 312- Watchmen and the Arrival of the Spanish

Jezzie and Sigi dive into the critically acclaimed and award winning limited series: HBO’s Watchmen. They marvel over the superb acting, creative storytelling and themes woven into this speculative history tale stemming from the Tulsa Race Riots. The Watchmen’s revisionist history, along with the  month of March marking 500 years since Magellan arrived in the Philippines, got Jezzie speculating and leading us through a thought experiment: What would have happened if the Spanish arrived 50 years later?
In the mix:
ImDB's entry on "Discovery of Witches",
BBC "All Together Now" -- The Final 10's Top Songs,
ImDB's entry on "Superstore",
ImDB's entry on "Moxie", 
ImDB's entry on "Coming 2 America" 

Taste Test of "Hamilton" on Disney+ (Episode 311.625)

On this Taste Test Jezzie samples "Hamilton" on Disney+ and takes us through a delicious mash up of hip hop, musical theatre and poetic wit. Find out more about what the general public is loving about this game changing and critically acclaimed musical and how it brings light to the immigrant experience and enhances the story of an American Founding Father.

Episode 311.5 - Golden Globe Ambassador Warmup

In honour of the Golden Globes Sigi shares some trivia about Golden Globe Ambassadors and Jezzie tries his luck at identifying the famous parents of the past Golden Globe Ambassadors in the last decade. Play along and see how you fare as well!

Episode 311 - 2021 Golden Globes Review and Debrief

Jezzie and Sigi recorded this episode post watching the Golden Globes this past Sunday. Listen in as they unpack the show which was a hybrid of a zoom meeting with famous people abiding by various degrees of formal dress code. They talk about the good (Norman Lear, The Crown, Schitt’s Creek and CBC shout outs); the bad (technical glitches) and the ugly (HFPA’s lack of representation). Listen in and dish as they enter Moira Rose’s fave season and take a quick detour on Jezzie’s brushes with some famous interactions!

Episode 310.5 - Allyship Part II

In our final instalment to our four part series on Social Justice this February, Jezzie and Sigi revisit allyship. Jezzie discusses two ways to provide continued support: cultural humility and activism self care. He highlights that allies adopt cultural humility as a purposeful stance that promotes reflection, introspection and constant learning, while self care is really a call to finding balance in one’s life. For our fixing of the week, we want to know what interest have you not pursued in a long time and is there a way to pursue it during the pandemic?

Episode 310 - Intersectionality

On the third installment of our four part series on Social Justice,  Jezzie helps Sigi sort issues that need advocacy by adopting an intersectionality analysis. Jezzie explains how intersectionality arose from work in critical race theory being applied to legal studies, as a way of understanding why certain changes in the law to address discrimination did not create sizeable changes in oppressed people’s lives. He also discusses the importance of intersectionality to consider when facing multiple oppression. Jezzie guides Sigi through an exercise to explore intersectionality as to highlight one’s social location and shares the importance of giving a voice and place those voices front and centre to the injustices that they experience.

Episode 309.5 - Speaking Up

On our second instalment of this special collection on Social Justice, Jezzie and Sigi discuss Speaking Up as Social Action. How does fear play a role in not speaking up? How do we ready ourselves to speak up? Jezzie shares how fear can be a sign to prepare and highlights the ways we can prepare ourselves by researching, planning, consulting, practicing and being kind to yourself.