Welcome back to Human Regards, where we invite you to reinvent space, diffuse power, and reclaim your peace. We met on Instagram, and then subsequently on Zoom, phone calls, and all the ways were able to connect safely at the time. Fast forward to 2023 – we’ve produced an entire season of this show, and we are so proud of the stories, incredible personalities, and all the complex humanity we’ve been able to share with you thus far. Human Regards asks necessary questions directly, even if those discussions aren’t always “popular” in the mainstream. Season 1 featured a slew of wonderful guests that asked questions like:

• Why aren’t there more Asian American identified folks playing and coaching organized sports?

• What happens when we center People of the Global Majority? When we center Queerness? When we center art?

• Why is communicating about our mental health so damn hard sometimes?

• Is, in fact, everything you know about international adoption a lie?

• What would you throw on a list of cis white guy red flags?

• How does five-star food become the perfect vehicle for telling a nuanced, personal story about reclaiming ethnic identity?

• What does it mean to document our existence as immigrant families in a country that has historically erased it?

• Music can be a life-long grounding force – can it also be activism?

• Why is it so important to push back on monolithic thinking, particularly in the context of academic research?

• And I mean, how is it that we can laugh and support each other though such deep, sometimes emotional conversations?

Well, that's just what we do, and we want you to be a part of it! It may have been anti-oppression work in sports that introduced us, but it’s ALL of these questions that have kept us curious, engaged, and interested in sharing collaborations with like-hearted souls like you.

We, like many of us, have spent decades surviving systems, structures, and institutions that weren’t designed for us – Human Regards changes that. Join us, as we expand and rewrite the so-called American narrative, in a space designed for ALL of us to thrive.

Original Pilot Notes: It's not every day you meet another self-proclaimed sub-5-foot "Brown Asian" who grew up playing basketball, let me tell you. Our pilot episode is an invitation to laugh, ponder, and sure, sometimes put on your serious face. We start out season 1 with our collective take on what it looks like to restore healthy space, share power, and reclaim peace as two women of the Global Majority who each spent over a decade in an industry built for, well, cis white dudes... *shrugs 'cause it's true*. Join us as we discuss the Human Regards “origin story”, and examine our collective experiences as self-identified women of the Global Majority at the intersection of anti-oppression work and, yup, youth basketball lol.

Connect with the show on Instagram: @humanregardspod or Twitter: @humanregards

Hosted By: Shanta Loecker and Carolyn Sideco

Production & Music By: Shanta Loecker