On this episode of A Really Good Enough Parent podcast, my special guest, Dr. Crystal Kwok shares her working mother of three insights about the job she loves the most. Dr. Kwok started her career as a film actor in Hong Kong where she appeared in many action and romance movies including one with Jackie Chan. She later moved into directing and then academia as her passion for social justice, and feminist studies grew.

Dr. Kwok is the mother of three college aged children, and comes from a large and close-knit family and is happily married to her partner of many years.

Dr. Kwok's award-winning film, Blurring The Color Line, is available on PBS

https://www.pbs.org/video/america-reframed-blurring-the-color-line--trailer/#:~:text=%2D%20%5BNATASHA%5D%20Blurring%20the%20Color,and%20in%20the%20PBS%20app.

Blurring the Color Line, website:

https://www.blurringthecolorline.com/

Crystal's IMDB:

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0477215/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2UM0SkA6AQ

http://www.filmfatales.org/directors/crystalkwok

Mushrooms!

Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures

By: Merlin Sheldrake

https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/52668915

and

The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins

By: Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25510906-the-mushroom-at-the-end-of-the-world?ref=nav_sb_ss_1_20

Dr. Kwok Bio:

Crystal Kwok is an award-winning filmmaker with experience both in front of and behind the camera. Establishing her career in Hong Kong as an Actress, Kwok also has several writer, producer, and director credits to her name. Crystal Kwok’s debut feature film, The Mistress, won the Audience Choice Award at the Deauville Asiatic Film Festival in 2000. As a strong women’s advocate, her talk show, “Kwoktalk” broke boundaries in the Hong Kong media with conversations about women and sexuality. Continuing efforts to create visibility in addressing women's issues, Crystal currently hosts a talk show on KTUH 90.1 FM in Honolulu, Hawaii, where she is also pursuing her Ph.D. in Performance Studies. Crystal also teaches courses in film and the media under the Womenʻs Studies Department and serves as an active member of the University of Hawaii’s Commission on Racism and

Bias.