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What is daily life like when your young son becomes your daughter? Marlo Mack explains what it's like to have a transgender kindergartener.
- Added: May 26, 2023
- Length: 09:35
- Purchases: 4
Episode 31
Two years ago on July 28th, Houda’s family stepped off a plane into the intense Tucson heat. They weren’t sure what was in store for the...
- Added: Jan 31, 2019
- Length: 04:38
A series of random events in Nepal bring an Israeli reporter and a nepalese teenager to grow an unlikely bond.
- Added: Dec 06, 2018
- Length: 23:57
- Added: Jun 22, 2017
- Length: 04:53
A poem about Thanksgiving by Sharon Olds, read by Eliza Foss
- Added: Nov 05, 2015
- Length: 01:47
How girlie do you have to be to secure your spot in the girl club? And what happens when your own mother questions your girl credentials? Marlo Ma...
- Added: Sep 06, 2014
- Length: 09:11
- Purchases: 2
How old is gender? Can a six-year-old child really be considered transgender? Marlo Mack explores this question, with a little help from her tran...
Bought by WCPN
- Added: Sep 06, 2014
- Length: 08:54
- Purchases: 1
Short Description: MEMOIR about her soldier son who committed suicide. She talks about writing non-fiction and her earlier elegiac book, EMBALMING...
- Added: Jun 26, 2014
- Length: 29:00
Mother’s Day is the one day of the year we set aside to honor mothers. Some do it with flowers and cards. For women who are in prison and their chi...
- Added: Jun 11, 2014
- Length: 24:57
- Purchases: 2
Youth Media Project intern Tara Trudell, a student at New Mexico Highlands University, interviews South African folk artists Lulama Sihlabeni, in a...
- Added: Apr 09, 2014
- Length: 08:22
An N’MPower participant, who wishes to remain anonymous, interviews Spanish Colonial artist Diana Moya Lujan, in a community engagement project bet...
- Added: Apr 09, 2014
- Length: 05:57
N’MPower participant, Marquell Hicks, interviews quilt artists Sharon Wirtz and Jane Gabaldon, in a community engagement project between the Museum...
- Added: Apr 09, 2014
- Length: 10:00
What does it take to raise a child with a severe food allergy?
- Added: Sep 09, 2013
- 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
Three hospice professionals explore ways for the dying and the survivors to find more peace around the death passage. This compelling hour also inc...
Bought by Radio Baha'i, WLGI
- Added: Sep 25, 2012
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
We all have different stories to tell.
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and Radijojo World Children's Radio Network
- Added: Sep 26, 2011
- Length: 08:52
- Purchases: 2
Humility and gratitude: Arthur Paul Bowen watches as his uncle must let his aunt go, Joanna Seibert travels to the other side of the world to give ...
- Added: Jul 18, 2011
- Length: 28:30
Rand Cooper discusses the challenges of becoming a new dad at a time when friends are sending their children off to college.
- Added: Dec 22, 2009
- Length: 05:45
This time of year, even when the spirit isn’t really there at all, we can decorate and party and shop ourselves into a state of manufactured joy.
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- Added: Nov 22, 2009
- Length: 04:35
Seeing familiar faces in a box of old photographs
- Added: Nov 17, 2009
- Length: 03:30
