I have the most heart-opening and vulnerable conversation with my friends Jenna Kim and Tristan Cabral about navigating the unknown, coming out, and family relationships as queer Christians with an evolving concept of and relationship to faith.
It’s the longest podcast conversation I’ve ever had and one of the most impactful. Every part of it is so intentional and necessary to share.
We talk about how challenging it was to grow up seeing zero representation of people who are like us, and how we bravely had to be the examples we wish we saw around us and create a life for ourselves as queer humans.
Jenna and Tristan openly share the pressures they faced and still face of feeling like they need to be “perfect” as the oldest children in Asian households of faith.
We also dive into why it was so hard for us to come out to our parents.
In the last 20 minutes of this conversation, we share ways you can become a better actionable ally to the LGBTQIA+ community.
Jenna is proudly Korean-American. She’s the oldest of four girls and a pastor’s kid. Jenna works as a production supervisor at Disney TV Animation.
Tristan is a first generation Filipino-American working as a storyboard artist at Nickelodeon. He is very proud of his identity as a Filipino immigrant story teller and dreams to one day be a TV Director on a cartoon that heavily focuses on cultural intersections.
This is a trigger warning. We do talk about suicide in this episode. If you’re struggling right now, please know that you are so freaking loved, and the world is more magical and vibrant with you in it. If you need direct support, call the national suicide and crisis lifeline at 988. This lifeline provides free and confidential emotional support to people in suicidal crisis or emotional distress 24 hours a day, 7 days a week in the United States.
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