Episode 8: Tasha Jun
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ABOUT THE EPISODE
What if we saw ethnicity as a crucial part of our stories, connecting us not only to each other, but also to God? In episode eight of the Not My Story podcast, guest Tasha Jun talks about how discovering her ethnic identity became a pathway for greater understanding of God, herself, and the world. Tasha encourages us to consider how who we are and where we come from play an integral part in our own spiritual development and sense of belonging. Sarah and Tasha also discuss travel, writing, books, and more.
MEET THE GUEST
Tasha is a melancholy day-dreamer, a Korean girl, wife to Matt, and mama to three little warriors: two wild boys and one little lady. She loves French fries, world maps, coffee, and Stabilo pens. As long as she can remember, she’s lived and stood in places where cultures collide. She’s been homesick and thinking about identity, belonging, and lost things becoming found for as long as she can remember, and writing about some version of those things since she was given her first journal in the third grade.
EPISODE NOTES
Find Tasha’s writing at TashaJun.com as well as at (in)courage, Fathom Mag, RELEVANT, and more.
The Joy Luck Club (based on the novel by Amy Tan)
Enneagram (for more info, check out The Enneagram Institute)
Tasha references a sermon by Duke Kwon, who notes that “ethnicity is eternal.”
Ethnicity & identity resources:
Beyond Colorblind: Redeeming Our Ethnic Journey, written by Sarah Shin (also: the Beyond Colorblind website)
Dr. Lucretia Berry & Brownicity (education, advocacy, and support organization)
Be the Bridge (racial healing, equity, and reconciliation group founded by Latasha Morrison)
What Tasha is reading:
Unsettling Truths: The Ongoing, Dehumanizing Legacy of the Doctrine of Discovery by Mark Charles & Soong-Chan Rah
Where the Mountain Meets the Moon by Grace Lin
Jesus and the Disinherited by Howard Thurman
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