PRX - Pieces for Format: First-Person Essay
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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
In episode 13 of Mn Huna: Finding Refuge in Friendship, it’s Melanie’s turn to take you to Small Syria. To sit by the pool with a group of Syrian w...
- Added: Aug 02, 2017
- Length: 05:41
- Added: Jun 22, 2017
- Length: 04:53
From: Stories from Deep in the Heart, a project of Texas Folklife
Series: Stories from Deep in the Vault: 2011 Travis High Edition
Series: Stories from Deep in the Vault: 2011 Travis High Edition
Rio, faces a big identity question. "Am I Mexican? If so how Mexican am I?" Let's just say Rio was raised a bit differently than prior generations ...
- Added: Nov 05, 2014
- Length: 04:44
From: Stories from Deep in the Heart, a project of Texas Folklife
Series: Stories from Deep in the Vault: Summer Institute Edition
Series: Stories from Deep in the Vault: Summer Institute Edition
A mother & daughter recollect moving to Austin from Vietnam.
This story was produced by Ana Kolendo, Linda O’Neal, and Lindsey Shirack during the ...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Oct 29, 2014
- Length: 05:46
- Purchases: 1
How do you build a strong family after a crisis?
- Added: Jun 05, 2014
- Length: 05:32
How do you proceed with your life when a family secret is revealed?
- Added: May 14, 2014
- Length: 06:11
How do you cope when you find out at the birth - that your baby has Down Syndrome? What are the first steps that you take?
- Added: Mar 04, 2014
- Length: 04:55
How is raising a little girl in the United States different from raising her in India? What happens when you move to America where expectations fo...
Bought by KUOW
- Added: Feb 25, 2014
- Length: 05:01
- Purchases: 1
Where are you applying to school? Are you staying in-state?
Have you written your essays?
- Added: Jan 23, 2014
- Length: 05:21
How do you slow down your life to spend more quality time with your family?
Can family traditions and religious beliefs help to ground you and your...
- Added: Dec 17, 2013
- Length: 04:54
Thirteen year old Toby Choyt of Maine meets a retired lobsterman on Portland's historic Widgery Wharf and tells his story.
- Added: Dec 11, 2013
- Length: 06:18
How does travel overseas change your view of yourself? Can one person’s comment change your perspective on your life at home - and overseas
- Added: Nov 07, 2013
- Length: 04:33
How do we balance raising our kids, retaining our careers, and at the same time find time for ourselves and our families?
- Added: Oct 14, 2013
- Length: 04:04
What does it take to raise a child with a severe food allergy?
- Added: Sep 09, 2013
- Length: 05:12
To what lengths have same sex couples had to go, in order to be lawfully married?
- Added: Sep 09, 2013
- Length: 03:48
How difficult is it to pick up and move your family overseas for a year ?
- Added: Sep 09, 2013
- Length: 05:33
16 years ago, Juan reported on his life as a recent Mexican immigrant living in poverty in Texas. In his new diary, Juan takes us on a tour of the ...
Bought by WJCT
- Added: Jul 03, 2013
- Length: 29:09
- Purchases: 1
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
A man talking about how he has a theme song for people in his life. He recalls the qualities of the people and describes them with music.
- Added: Mar 29, 2011
- Length: 03:24
America's divorce rate soared in the 1970s. Thirty years later, kids who grew up in the divorce revolution look back at that experience, and descri...
Bought by Northeast Indiana Public Radio, Northeast Indiana Public Radio, WGBH Radio Boston, KUFM - Montana Public Radio, WGDR and more
- Added: Nov 02, 2009
- Length: 54:00
- Purchases: 31
Are the annual Rainbow Gatherings, on National Forest Land each Fourth of July, just free-wheeling havens for hippies or are they serious experimen...
Bought by Radio Baha'i, WLGI, KUAC, KSFR, and KUNM
- Added: Aug 26, 2009
- Length: 28:58
- Purchases: 4
An immigrant story: longing for permanence but restless in pursuing it. My great-grandmother.
- Added: Dec 12, 2008
- Length: 03:00
