{"id":18004,"date":"2024-01-24T20:22:02","date_gmt":"2024-01-24T20:22:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/edmontondailynews.com\/scarborough-comic-proud-to-explore-tamil-queer-identities-in-standup-act\/"},"modified":"2024-01-24T20:22:02","modified_gmt":"2024-01-24T20:22:02","slug":"scarborough-comic-proud-to-explore-tamil-queer-identities-in-standup-act","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/edmontondailynews.com\/scarborough-comic-proud-to-explore-tamil-queer-identities-in-standup-act\/","title":{"rendered":"Scarborough comic proud to explore Tamil, queer identities in standup act"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/TdTbSDW0ARc\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>After performing around the world, Tamil-Canadian comedian Sunthar Vykunthanathan \u2014 known as Sunthar V \u2014 returned to his hometown in Scarborough this week, performing for his largest audience in the community to date. In a conversation with CBC\u2019s Shannon Martin, he says he\u2019s proud to be able to perform a show that explores the intersections of Tamil, queer and refugee identities.<\/p>\n<p>\u00bb\u00bb\u00bb Subscribe to CBC News to watch more videos:<\/p>\n<p>Connect with CBC News Online:<\/p>\n<p>For breaking news, video, audio and in-depth coverage:<br \/>\nFollow CBC News on TikTok:<br \/>\nFollow CBC News on Twitter:<br \/>\nFind CBC News on Facebook:<br \/>\nFollow CBC News on Instagram:<br \/>\nSubscribe to CBC News on Snapchat:<\/p>\n<p>Download the CBC News app for iOS:<br \/>\nDownload the CBC News app for Android:<\/p>\n<p>\u00bb\u00bb\u00bb\u00bb\u00bb\u00bb\u00bb\u00bb\u00bb\u00bb\u00bb\u00bb\u00bb\u00bb\u00bb\u00bb\u00bb\u00bb<br \/>\nFor more than 80 years, CBC News has been the source Canadians turn to, to keep them informed about their communities, their country and their world. Through regional and national programming on multiple platforms, including CBC Television, CBC News Network, CBC Radio, CBCNews.ca, mobile and on-demand, CBC News and its internationally recognized team of award-winning journalists deliver the breaking stories, the issues, the analyses and the personalities that matter to Canadians.<\/p>\n<hr>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After performing around the world, Tamil-Canadian comedian Sunthar Vykunthanathan \u2014 known as Sunthar V \u2014 returned to his hometown in Scarborough this week, performing for his largest audience in the community to date. In a conversation with CBC\u2019s Shannon Martin,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":18005,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[86,87,2683,1036,1627,19576,19577,298],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/edmontondailynews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18004"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/edmontondailynews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/edmontondailynews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edmontondailynews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edmontondailynews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18004"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/edmontondailynews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18004\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edmontondailynews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/edmontondailynews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edmontondailynews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edmontondailynews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}