Episode 5: Disruptive Asian: Shedding the skin of the Model Minority“I can hear my mother’s voice… “백인들을 화나게 만들지 마”  &quot;Don’t make the white people mad.” Susie GamezThis week we talked with the amazing Pastor Susie Gamez. Susie covers a lot of topics! She talks about the myth of the perpetual foreigner, the lack of Asian American representation in films, tokenism, and standards of beauty. She also talks about the day she had to choose between her Asian identity and the kids that she grew up with. Finally, Susie explains how true peacemaking is about creating change!Recommendations:Books: The Color of Compromise by Jamar Tisby (both book and video) Becoming by Brenda Salter-McNeilPodcasts: Someday is Here podcast Truths’ Table Hope and Hard PillsContact info: Website - <a href='https://www.susiegamez.com/'>https://www.susiegamez.com/</a> Instagram - susiekgamez

Disruptive

Disruptive Peacemakers is a podcast that features interviews with interesting people who are committed to anti-racism, racial justice and racial reconciliation. Our guests will be a mix of people who have in-depth knowledge and experience working in this area and everyday people who are at various stages on the journey toward authentic peacemaking and reconciliation. The conversations will center around how to disrupt and shatter racist strongholds in the Christian Church through the biblical discipline of peacemaking. We’ve embraced the definition of peacemaking from the Book of Common Prayer, A Liturgy for Ordinary Radicals which states “Peacemaking doesn’t mean passivity. It is the act of interrupting injustice without mirroring injustice, the act of disarming evil without destroying the evildoer, the act of finding a third way that is neither fight nor flight but the careful, arduous pursuit of reconciliation and justice.”