knots is a show that explores Pan-Asian cultures, histories, and lived experiences through the metaphor of interconnection.

Inspired by Asian knot crafts and the idea of the red string that binds people across time and space, the show examines how culture, memory,
spirituality, power, and identity are intertwined rather than isolated. Produced and hosted by Sage and CKUT volunteers, Knots invites listeners
to sit with complexity, tension, and care—understanding Pan-Asian realities not as monolithic, but as layered, dynamic, and relational.

In a Western context where Asian identities are often flattened through orientalism, fetishization, and historical erasure, Knots seeks to gently pull at these narratives and ask what has been tied, tightened, hidden, or cut. Each session focuses on a “thread”—such as erased histories excluded from mainstream curricula, intergenerational memory, diaspora, ancestral traditions, spirituality, or representation—and traces how these threads knot together across personal and collective experience.

Music on the show reflects themes of memory, lineage, diaspora, spirituality, and connection across Pan-Asian worlds.

Every 4th Friday of the month, 2 - 3pm (EDT)

October 23, 2026: episode 4: Arab-Asian biracial identities, proximity to whiteness.

A conversation on surviving the margins of the margins, the realities of non-Wasian biraciality, what it means to grow when your own identities are pitched against each other, and finding space outside the white gaze.

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