Lunar New Year is always a time for reunion and celebration, which is everything this episode is. But Edison Huynh - a proud Londoner of Teochew heritage - brings one more important ingredient to our festive yet emotional chat: enduring hope, carried in our bodily vessels where ancestral memories live on. 

We talk about:

• Growing up in London with his family, who had found their way to the UK after being displaced from Southeast Asia due to war and conflict;
• The familial significance of Lunar New Year for them, and why food is more than just a love language of his parents;
• How living in China and visiting his ancestral homeland during his 20s strengthened his embodied sense of cultural heritage;
• The importance of seeing representations of ourselves in the world around us, such as in films and on TV; 
• The drivers behind his passionate engagement in politics, and why inclusivity and collective action matter when it comes to enacting social change;

And how he stays hopeful and optimistic, when the going gets tough. 

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