PRX - Pieces for Format: First-Person Essay
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OutCasting youth broadcaster Declan – a trans guy – talks about experiencing gender from both sides of the fence.
- Added: Sep 30, 2022
- Length: 06:46
May 1, 2022 – What does a straight teenager do when he sees a lesbian schoolmate being taunted – and why?
- Added: Apr 30, 2022
- Length: 09:10
What's lost when kids don't learn about the homophobic context in which the pandemic unfolded?
- Added: Jun 30, 2021
- Length: 08:37
How did he deal with it? Was his school helpful? What did he learn from it?
Bought by KZMU Moab Community Radio
- Added: Mar 31, 2021
- Length: 04:51
- Purchases: 1
Does that make him "a little bit" transgender?
Bought by KZMU Moab Community Radio
- Added: Jan 29, 2021
- Length: 03:58
- Purchases: 1
OutCaster Justin talks about what it means to LGBTQ youth, especially struggling youth, to see LGBTQ people elected to public office.
- Added: Nov 30, 2020
- Length: 07:00
Trans youth describes her discomfort with her own voice.
- Added: Apr 30, 2020
- Length: 04:49
Raven and Eboni are friends who look like each other. And there are not a lot of people who like they do at their college in Missoula, Montana. But...
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: May 02, 2019
- Length: 05:45
- Purchases: 1
Before she started running the horse therapy program at Rocky Mountain Treatment Center in Great Falls, MT, Jessica Hofer was an addict. For her, s...
Bought by WYAP
- Added: Apr 07, 2017
- Length: 02:37
- Purchases: 1
Sam hails from Bosnia, but she’s lived in the US for the last 6 years. Sometimes she finds that her two cultures have opposing values. Add to that ...
- Added: Dec 16, 2015
- Length: 02:58
- Added: Apr 15, 2014
- Length: 03:42
Carmen, a Minneapolis middle school student gives a fine accounting of why she is as she is.
Bought by KSRQ
- Added: Feb 19, 2014
- Length: 01:14
- Purchases: 1
Many songs, books, and movies focus on love and romance, but what happens when they become one’s only source for learning? Philly Youth Radio’s Jay...
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, and PRX Remix
- Added: Feb 12, 2013
- Length: 04:23
- Purchases: 3
Using the poem "Where I'm From" by Willie Perdomo as a creative prompt, students created poems to share and express where they come from and how th...
- Added: Nov 12, 2012
- Length: :54
Using the poem "Where I'm From" by Willie Perdomo as a creative prompt, students created poems to share and express where they come from and how th...
- Added: Nov 12, 2012
- Length: 01:57
- Added: Nov 07, 2012
- Length: 05:12
A sister tries to reacquaint herself with her older brother during a cross country road trip only to realize it might not be so simple a task.
Bought by WTIP
- Added: Oct 10, 2012
- Length: 05:37
- Purchases: 1
High school isn't easy. Jimmy's high school experience was especially difficult. Now a student at the United World College in Montezuma, NM, Jimmy ...
- Added: Jul 19, 2012
- Length: 03:33
Taking his inspiration from Marvin Gaye's song "What's Going On," Ryan Lawless, SFCC student, explores family dynamics in the 21st century while re...
- Added: May 04, 2012
- Length: 05:53
Twenty-year-old Thien To first learned about cyberbullying in her native Vietnam. The South Philadelphia High junior has since learned about cyberb...
Bought by WGXC
- Added: Jul 10, 2011
- Length: 05:48
- Purchases: 1
Israeli United World College student, Nofar Hamrani, shares her moving story about growing up in the Gaza Strip. She begins her story with a famil...
Bought by Radijojo World Children's Radio Network and PRX Remix
- Added: Apr 06, 2011
- Length: 04:00
- Purchases: 2
Lee Mier is a student manager of the Minneapolis Edison girls basketball team. It was exciting to get to the championship game last year.
- Added: Feb 12, 2011
- Length: 01:00
At Minneapolis Edison High School, the football coach places a lot of defensive responsibility on the linebackers. And that suits student Jesse Cla...
- Added: Feb 12, 2011
- Length: 01:00
A student at United World College, Nelson Diaz Monterrosa, worked with Youth Media Project's Summer Intensive 2010 to produce this moving piece abo...
- Added: Feb 09, 2011
- Length: 05:17
- Purchases: 2
Members of the Youth Media Project’s Global Broadcasting Team host this broadcast to share stories from their recent trip to cover the 2009 Parliam...
Bought by KRZA
- Added: Feb 09, 2011
- Length: 28:46
- Purchases: 1
