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
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
On her kids' last day of school, Laura draws from Susan Wise Bauer's research, writing, and experience on how we can rethink the way we approach ou...
- Added: May 27, 2020
- Length: 22:02
Trans youth describes her discomfort with her own voice.
- Added: Apr 30, 2020
- Length: 04:49
Jonny Morales, 18, worries that COVID-19 will overwhelm the healthcare system he's gotten to know so well from his ER visits.
- Added: Apr 16, 2020
- Length: 03:35
I'm eighteen and for some reason I can't be on time.
- Added: Mar 31, 2017
- Length: 02:22
"Where are you from? ... No, where are you REALLY from?" Because of her skin tone and features, Milani Chatterji-Len gets asked this question all t...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: Dec 05, 2016
- Length: 04:12
- Purchases: 2
Seventeen year-old Shamarra Rombawa lives in Wilmington, Delaware. Her city was dubbed "Murder Town" by a 2014 article in Newsweek because of its h...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Dec 16, 2015
- Length: 03:08
- Purchases: 1
When 16 year-old Max Rakus set off to Germany right after his sophomore year of high school ended, he had no idea that the trip would change him fo...
- Added: Dec 16, 2015
- Length: 01:39
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
When Maryama Abdi came with her family to this country from Somalia, she left behind someone very dear to her.
- Added: Dec 11, 2013
- Length: 01:49
- Added: Nov 07, 2012
- Length: 05:12
Tyler Carter, 20, of Ukiah, Calif., talked with KQED’s Lillian Mongeau about how his father's opinions make him feel about politics.
- Added: Nov 02, 2012
- Length: :51
An essay about growing up in the 80's and 90's as a male named Whitney and as a result the effect that Whitney Houston has had on my life.
- Added: Feb 13, 2012
- Length: 03:56
- Purchases: 2
Cristel Martinez came to America from the Dominican Republic with a dream to become a music producer. But the only music she hears in school, says ...
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio, WGXC, and PRX Remix
- Added: Jul 10, 2011
- Length: 05:02
- Purchases: 3
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
Shayla Torres dealt with a lot of violence in her last school, where she was a peer mediator. Here, the 17-year-old junior recalls one especially c...
- Added: Jul 10, 2011
- Length: 02:51
- Purchases: 3
For Luis Lopez, violence arrived unexpectedly at his own front door. The seventeen-year-old sophomore starts his story in a classroom.
- Added: Jul 10, 2011
- Length: 01:55
- 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
High School is not an easy time of life. Minneapolis Edison students Breanna Koger and Jazzmin Keys collaborate to tell the world about it.
- 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
Commentary on the recent series of videos being uploaded to YouTube in the wake of a round of gay teen suicides.
- Added: Oct 11, 2010
- Length: 03:15
If given the chance would you take that environmental class in high school?
Bought by Radijojo World Children's Radio Network
- Added: Jun 12, 2009
- Length: 03:17
- Purchases: 1
