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The vast majority of people living with dementia receive essential care from their own family and friends. Two caregivers share their experiences s...
- Added: Jun 20, 2024
- Length: 58:23
About half of all infertility cases involve male fertility issues. Yet reproductive spaces are often dominated by women — and the male perspective ...
- Added: Jun 11, 2024
- Length: 58:23
Puberty is a rite of passage that most of us experience as teenagers. But for some trans folks, big hormonal changes happen again in adulthood.
- Added: Jun 06, 2024
- Length: 58:23
Puberty is a rite of passage that most of us experience as teenagers. But for some trans folks, big hormonal changes happen again in adulthood.
- Added: Jun 06, 2024
- Length: 58:23
Building intimate friendships can be difficult, especially for men and masculine-of-center people. Guest host Omisade Burney-Scott talks to four Bl...
- Added: May 29, 2024
- Length: 58:23
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
Compulsive sexual behavior has many names and no one clear diagnosis. But what is agreed upon is that when sex prohibits you from living life the w...
- Added: May 15, 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?
Bought by KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., Spokane Public Radio, and RadioStPete Florida
- Added: May 08, 2024
- Length: 58:23
- Purchases: 3
This week's episode is about two women, one who fled Shanghai during Mao's Chinese Revolution, and the other who escaped the Bolshevik Revolution a...
Bought by RadioFreePalmer and KALW
- Added: May 07, 2024
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
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
People with disabilities are disproportionately affected by climate change yet are often sidelined from policy conversations. Three disability acti...
Bought by KFAI Minneapolis
- Added: Apr 24, 2024
- Length: 58:23
- Purchases: 1
People with disabilities are disproportionately affected by climate change yet are often sidelined from policy conversations. Three disability acti...
- Added: Apr 24, 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
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
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
American sign language is the third most commonly used language in the U.S., but for many Deaf folks, it's about so much more than communication. A...
- Added: Mar 20, 2024
- Length: 58:23
Today we share excerpts from “She's Beautiful When She's Angry,” a documentary about the rise of activism around women’s rights in the late 1960s, ...
Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, RadioFreePalmer, KMUN, and KBUT Crested Butte, Colo.
- Added: Mar 19, 2024
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 4
If you’ve spent some time on TikTok or YouTube recently, you might have stumbled across ASMR content without even knowing it. From long acrylic nai...
- Added: Mar 15, 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 KUNM, KRVS, WGUC/ WVXU, Oregon Public Broadcasting, WILL and more
- Added: Mar 11, 2024
- Length: 58:23
- Purchases: 13
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...
- Added: Mar 07, 2024
- Length: 58:23
The Brazilian butt lift is one of the fastest growing cosmetic procedures. What is driving the desire for a “perfect peach”?
- Added: Feb 29, 2024
- Length: 58:23
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