Ep. 12 | Coming out as Queer & Trans to Her Asian Family, Sharing Her HMoob (Hmong) Identity Through Music, and Looking Past Labels with Chuefeng Yang

Chuefeng Yang (she/her) is a queer, transgender HMoob (Hmong) singer-songwriter living in Minneapolis-St. Paul, Minnesota. In today’s episode, Chuefeng talks with Annie about her experiences coming out as trans in a family with traditional Asian gender norms, sharing her Hmong identity through her music, and how she strives to see people beyond their labels. *Please note that “HMoob” is a newer spelling of “Hmong” that is used to be inclusive of people who speak both HMoob dialects spoken in the US. Sources/Information on HMoob history: https://www.britannica.com/topic/Hmong https://www.mprnews.org/story/2015/03/01/10-things-hmong https://www.npr.org/sections/parallels/2017/01/30/512449534/how-the-u-s-war-in-laos-was-key-to-the-birth-of-a-military-cia HMoob people in the USA: https://www.pewresearch.org/social-trends/fact-sheet/asian-americans-hmong-in-the-u-s/ Links to Chuefeng’s Music: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJhKp9nx2d7zv9kbdbI1quA https://open.spotify.com/artist/04pXnhIrzbcXMYYtt43e5L https://music.apple.com/us/artist/chuefeng/1510888352 Also be sure to follow Chuefeng on Instagram @chuefengy: https://www.instagram.com/chuefengy/?hl=en “Sort Of” on HBO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ul3sh7DUK4w&t=7s