You Gon Listen Keren Jean-Charles
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- Gesellschaft und Kultur
The Minority Serving Institution Student Council (MSISC) at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas along with KUNV Radio are proud to present 'You Gon Listen', a twelve part podcast that aims to shine light on the issues and experiences that minority students and staff face at UNLV. The purpose of this series is to hear and learn directly from one another. We hope to create a dialogue about social issues and current events that shape our daily lives in order to make UNLV a better and more inclusive place.
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College in a Pandemic
For the season finale, let’s reflect on the pandemic. Students have had a hard year
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Ep. 11 - Stop Asian Hate
The Stop Asian Hate movement is a movement to end the racism, violence, hate-crimes, colonization, appropriation, and sexualization that has happened to Asian people, and continues to happen to them, because of racist people. I speak with Franchesca Fajardo, a college student, about her experiences being Asian in America.
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Ep. 10 - POC Owned Business Issues
This episode is about issues in people of color owned business.
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Ep. 9 - Religion and Spirituality
At UNLV we get to see a wider demographic of people as we are one of the most diverse campuses nationwide. Because of this, it seems important that we talk about the many practices that affect huge parts of our lives. I speak with Jayda Germain, a college student and crystal seller, about religion and spirituality.
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Ep. 8 - First Generation College Students
A First Generation College student is defined as the first person in the family to attend college or the first person in the family to attend college and obtain a degree. There is a lot of pride and pressure that comes with being a First Generation student. I speak with Krickett Friend, a college student at UNLV, about being a first generation student.
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Ep. 7 - LGBTQIA+
LGBTQIA stands for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, Intersex, and Asexual which is only a small number of labels people use to identify with. For a long time the struggle for visibility and equality has been at the center of the movement and the work is far from finished. I speak with Arkham Drace, a college student at UNLV, and we’re talking about the LGBTQIA+ community.