PRX - Pieces for Format: First-Person Essay
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When you’re living with a stigmatized mental illness like bipolar disorder, opening up to romantic partners can be tough. A married couple and a si...
- Added: May 22, 2024
- Length: 58:23
More and more women are breaking up with the expectation that you need a partner to parent. What’s it like raising kids as a single mother by choice?
- Added: May 07, 2024
- Length: 58:23
Religion and sexuality are often pitted against one another...so where does that leave folks who seek attunement and education for both?
- Added: May 02, 2024
- Length: 58:23
As the workforce of funeral directors ages, young folks are stepping up to lead and change the death care industry.
- Added: Apr 17, 2024
- Length: 58:23
Assumptions about narcissism, loneliness and selfishness in only children are largely that: assumptions. But there are experiences unique to being ...
- Added: Apr 08, 2024
- Length: 58:23
A gender transition means a lot of changes in a person's life — and a lot of changes for their romantic partner. Two couples share their experience...
- Added: Mar 25, 2024
- Length: 58:23
March 31st marks the 15th annual International Transgender Day of Visibility. TDOV uplifts the contributions of trans folks in the Queer Rights Mov...
Bought by WWNO, WRKF, and RadioFreePalmer
- Added: Mar 25, 2024
- Length: 58:23
- Purchases: 3
Egg donation in the U.S. is a multibillion dollar industry designed to provide infertile folks with the eggs they need to conceive. But how do we d...
Bought by KUNM, KRVS, WGUC/ WVXU, Oregon Public Broadcasting, WILL and more
- Added: Mar 11, 2024
- Length: 58:23
- Purchases: 13
If you could speak again with a loved one who has passed away, would you? With recent advances in artificially intelligent grief tech, this questio...
Bought by KWGS
- Added: Feb 22, 2024
- Length: 58:23
- Purchases: 1
If you could speak again with a loved one who has passed away, would you? With recent advances in artificially intelligent grief tech, this questio...
- Added: Feb 22, 2024
- Length: 58:23
In this digital age of flawless, perfect, poreless skin, dealing with adult acne can be incredibly isolating. Two skinfluencers and a photographer ...
- Added: Dec 14, 2023
- Length: 58:23
Third culture kids spend their formative years trotting the globe, moving between different cultures and countries. Two third culture families shar...
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio and Boise State Public Radio
- Added: Nov 21, 2023
- Length: 58:23
- Purchases: 2
This week, we begin with the story of a woman who was in flight to the US when President Trump signed his first travel ban. We later hear how immig...
Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, WRIR, and KUNM
- Added: Sep 18, 2017
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 3
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
Suzanne Kryder, co-founder of Peace Talks Radio, hosts this exploration of the world of disability two years after experiencing an AVM, an Arteriov...
Bought by Radio Baha'i, WLGI, KUNM, and KVSC
- Added: May 13, 2014
- Length: 28:59
- Purchases: 3
Suzanne Kryder, co-founder of Peace Talks Radio, hosts this exploration of the world of disability some years after experiencing an AVM, an arterio...
Bought by KUOW, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, and KUOW
- Added: May 12, 2014
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 3
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
N’MPower participant and Program Manager, Curtis Billie, interviews Kathy Wan Povi Sanchez, a potter from the San Ildefonso Pueblo, in a community ...
- Added: Apr 09, 2014
- Length: 06:32
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
This is an adventure story about how I met a girl who couldn’t laugh, and my quest to get my laugh back, which I lost somewhere under the pile of l...
- Added: Nov 27, 2011
- Length: 21:14
"I don't ever want you to open for me again" said Sarah Vaughan. The diva was paying her a compliment, but the modest Dianne Reeves didn't' know that.
Bought by WMOT, Delmarva Public Media, KREV-LP, WCSU-FM, 90.5 WSNC and more
- Added: Mar 11, 2011
- Length: 06:18
- Purchases: 8
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
