{"podcast":{"title":"Queers with Accents","slug":"queers-with-accents-7747041","podcast_index_feed_id":7747041,"rss_url":"https://anchor.fm/s/113ab0284/podcast/rss","website_url":"https://qesl.blogspot.com/p/blog-page_20.html","image_url":"https://d3t3ozftmdmh3i.cloudfront.net/staging/podcast_uploaded_nologo/46149417/46149417-1781285828871-79c7dc171d6bc.jpg","author":"Queer ESL with Masaki Seto","episode_count":15,"summary":"Japanese queer writer and ESL educator Masaki Seto is joined by his fellows ESL speakers (like his students) to discuss social justice and other topics.","last_synced_at":"2026-06-24T10:17:01.892727+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/queers-with-accents-7747041"},"episode":{"title":"#6 Time management struggles and the guilt of practicing English with friends","slug":"6-time-management-struggles-and-the-guilt-of-practicing-english-with-friends","published_at":"2026-04-22T09:27:02+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/queers-with-accents-7747041/6-time-management-struggles-and-the-guilt-of-practicing-english-with-friends","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/queers-with-accents-7747041","url":"https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/queerswithaccents/episodes/6-Time-management-struggles-and-the-guilt-of-practicing-English-with-friends-e3kn3kf","audio_url":"https://anchor.fm/s/113ab0284/podcast/play/121392207/https%3A%2F%2Fd3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net%2Fstaging%2F2026-5-12%2F426026657-44100-2-1277b7011a55c.mp3","summary":"Kinoko is one of my ESL students and the author of I Have Two Partners: Living the Polyamorous Life , a ground-breaking book in Japanese about polyamory, as well as the organizer of Poly Lounge , a series of events for polyamorous and questioning people and allies. We publish archived videos of our lessons as a podcast. Today, our conversation covered the following topics: * Forgetting appointments and daily tasks * The difficulty of multitasking and context-switching * Working on laptops in trains: what are they working on? * How clothing and hair color affect people’s perceptions, and the Japanese cultural pressure to be “transparent” and blend in * The dichotomy of renshu (practice) vs. honban (real performance) in language learning, and the guilt of feeling like you’re using friends as practice tools Tip: Turn on the automatic transcript feature if you’d like to read along. Connect with Kinoko-san * Kinoko-san’s X: https://x.com/kinoko1027 * Kinoko-san’s blog: https://ameblo.jp/kinoko1027ameba/ * Her book: https://amzn.asia/d/0gusbsvA * Her interview: https://news.yahoo.co.jp/articles/ad17531bef6f9307a429f45f450a9fb2817f8196","meta_description":"Kinoko is one of my ESL students and the author of I Have Two Partners: Living the Polyamorous Life , a ground-breaking book in Japanese about polyamory,…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2812,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/queers-with-accents-7747041/episodes/6-time-management-struggles-and-the-guilt-of-practicing-english-with-friends/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/queers-with-accents-7747041/6-time-management-struggles-and-the-guilt-of-practicing-english-with-friends.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}