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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
Vibrators have been around since the 19th century. Before they were marketed primarily as sex toys, they were sold as general health devices … and ...
- Added: Apr 03, 2024
- Length: 58:23
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 KRVS, WGUC/ WVXU, Oregon Public Broadcasting, WILL, KGOU and more
- Added: Mar 11, 2024
- Length: 58:23
- Purchases: 12
There are 1.8 billion monthly menstruators worldwide. Better understanding the science behind period blood, as well as cultural stigma and period p...
- Added: Feb 01, 2024
- Length: 58:23
Actor-turned-otolaryngologist Alessa Colaianni has no problem acting sad—it’s actually feeling sad that’s the problem. In this episode, Alessa tell...
- Added: May 05, 2023
- Length: 40:08
OutCasting youth broadcaster Declan – a trans guy – talks about experiencing gender from both sides of the fence.
- Added: Sep 30, 2022
- Length: 06:46
Joy and tears were both a part of the experience for author Staci Lola Drouillard in writing the 2022 release Seven Aunts published by the Universi...
- Added: Jul 08, 2022
- Length: 08:32
Sometimes an object out of place becomes the only thing in place.
- Added: Apr 01, 2022
- Length: 01:00
Avant interviews Pamela Schwartz, executive director at the Orange County Regional History Center. She shares her approach to collecting and curati...
- Added: Jan 25, 2022
- Length: 27:08
OutCaster Chris considers the legacy of Ruth Bader Ginsburg to LGBTQ youth. The Supreme Court icon died on September 18, 2020.
Bought by RADIOLEX
- Added: Sep 30, 2020
- Length: 05:05
- Purchases: 1
A piece by Mya Torres. I made my piece about how social media ruined not only MY relationship with self-love, but many others.
- Added: Aug 18, 2020
- Length: 05:59
For her fiftieth birthday this year, Danna Harman planned to embark on a spiritual pilgrimage along the Camino de Santiago and hopefully hit on a d...
- Added: Aug 05, 2020
- Length: 15:50
Sumeiya- a young Kenyan woman going to university in England – teaches World Pieces host Jason Kladiva about Kenya and it’s differences to England ...
- Added: Jul 08, 2019
- Length: 06:27
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
Yolanda is a DACA student at HSU; she worries about being able to finish her schooling. She also went to Washington DC to lobby with Scholars Witho...
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: Mar 12, 2019
- Length: 02:59
- Purchases: 1
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
A list of random things I keep thinking about with gender pronouns and me.
- Added: Apr 03, 2018
- Length: 07:03
Introducing the podcast - here's the e-mail I wrote to my friends on my 37th birthday about my pronoun change.
- Added: Mar 25, 2018
- Length: 06:03
After watching bicyclists swoosh around the National Sports Center Velodrome in Blaine, KFAI's Sophie Nikitas joined them. Like the other cyclists,...
- Added: Sep 13, 2017
- Length: 05:08
Autobiographical memories are the stories we tell ourselves, but they’re also a window into other people’s experiences. They’re one of the best way...
- Added: Jan 30, 2017
- Length: 29:10
Teodora Schipper (b. 1944 in the Philippines) reflects on her life based on this 2013 interview by 5th graders Addie and Scott of Winchester Thurst...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and KGLP
- Added: Mar 03, 2016
- Length: 05:04
- Purchases: 2
Niama Elharrak (b. 1971 in Morocco) reflects on her life based on this 2014 interview by 5th graders Hannah, Carsten and Garrett of Winchester Thur...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: Mar 03, 2016
- Length: 03:56
- Purchases: 1
Former steelworker Marlene “Miss Pumpkin” Murphy of Homestead, Pennsylvania reflects on her life based on this 2015 interview by Propel Homestead m...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: Mar 03, 2016
- Length: 04:52
- Purchases: 1
Mary Wohleber (b. 1916 on Pittsburgh's Northside) reflects on her life based on this 2008 interview by 8th graders Hironda and Jesse of Manchester ...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: Mar 03, 2016
- Length: 11:39
- Purchases: 1
