The Elephant in the Bedroom

The Elephant in the Bedroom

James Roque & Chye-Ling Huang take a raw, funny, and at times confronting look at the intersection of sex, love, and race.

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February 1, 2022 1 min

Listen to the new podcast The Elephant in the Bedroom, hosted by Chye-Ling Huang & James Roque.

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The Elephant in the Bedroom is a podcast and documentary series where two friends risk their love lives to ask taboo questions around sex, love, and race.

Opening the bedroom door to their deepest fears, James Roque & Chye-Ling Huang traverse through nature vs. nurture, geo-political history, ...

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When James Roque & Chye-Ling Huang realise they've only ever dated white people, they start to wonder... how did this happen? And is it really so bad to have a type?

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James & Chye-Ling, Asian creatives and best friends, realise they have a dating bias toward white people, and are investigating why. They hear theories from other people of colour who have the same type, linked to where the...

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February 21, 2022 35 mins

The laws of attraction spark as James & Chye-Ling question the why of their white dating bias. Experts weigh in: is our type informed by genetics or society?

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Chye-Ling's fear that her type is genetically wired sparks a dive into nature vs. nurture. How much of whom we date is determined by genetics, and how much is socialised? Smart people in the fields of social psychology, neurology,...

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February 28, 2022 32 mins

Is sexual racism affecting your dating life? Green Party MP Golriz Ghahraman and OnlyFans content creator Demi Hunziker help our hosts trace media's influence across cultural history and porn.

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As they reckon with their bias towards dating white people, hosts James & Chye-Ling look at representation and how this might influence their choices. Filipino media and the skin-whitening industr...

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March 7, 2022 37 mins

Chye-Ling is called out on Reddit for having a white partner. The investigation turns to the Asian community, personal guilt, and the dark side of judgements on interracial couples. Where do these attitudes stem from?

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Sexual rejection leads to loneliness, low self-esteem, and bitterness. Just how far can someone spiral? After Chye-Ling gets called out on Reddit for having a white partner, t...

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March 14, 2022 34 mins

After all the experts and moral arguments, it's down to James & Chye-Ling to finally decide: are they breaking up with their white partners?

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James & Chye-Ling must now answer the question they posed at the beginning: do they need to break up with their white partners to change the system we live in? We turn one last time to the experts to look at the psychology and moral argument for ch...

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