Episode 2 · 52 min
Growing Up Hyphenated
A conversation about growing up Brazilian-American and Sicilian-American, living between cultures, and learning to claim every part of your identity.
00:0052 min
What does it mean to live with a hyphen in your name and your heart? We open up about being daughters of immigrants, the foods that raised us, the languages we half-remember, and the lifelong work of claiming every part of who we are.
Key themes
Immigrant daughterhoodBelongingFamilyReinvention
Show notes
- The push and pull of being 'too much' of one place and 'not enough' of another.
- Kitchen-table memories that shaped our sense of self.
- Why language loss feels like grief — and how we're reclaiming it.
- Permission to be a whole person, not a fraction.
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Full transcript
Josephine: I spent so long translating myself for other people that I forgot to ask what I actually wanted to be.
Feuza: Hyphenated isn't half-and-half. It's both, fully. That took me decades to believe.