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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: Sep 16, 2024
- Length: 58:23
Up to 20% of the population experiences symptoms of dyslexia, a lifelong neurological disorder that makes it difficult to read fluently. Examining ...
- Added: Sep 12, 2024
- Length: 58:23
Third culture kids spend their formative years trotting the globe, moving between different cultures and countries. Two third culture families shar...
- Added: Sep 11, 2024
- Length: 43:31
In the past 30 years, the divorce rate for Americans over 55 has doubled. After a decades-long marriage, serving the papers is just one small act b...
- Added: Aug 14, 2024
- Length: 58:23
Hearing aids are sometimes presented as a silver bullet for communication issues arising from hearing loss. But hard of hearing folks already on th...
- Added: Jul 31, 2024
- Length: 58:23
The majority of mental health professionals in the U.S. are white. Therapists of color are working to expand the diversity of their field and incre...
- Added: Jul 24, 2024
- Length: 58:23
Tens of thousands of Americans each year are voluntarily and involuntarily committed into psychiatric institutes. A memoirist and an organizer shar...
- Added: Jul 17, 2024
- Length: 58:23
An essayist, activist and novelist discuss love, disability and how writing has shifted their relationship with others and themselves.
Bought by KALW and Boise State Public Radio
- Added: Jul 09, 2024
- Length: 58:23
- Purchases: 2
An essayist, activist and novelist discuss love, disability and how writing has shifted their relationship with others and themselves.
- Added: Jul 09, 2024
- Length: 58:23
Nearly one in five people seeking abortion care must cross state lines to get it. Here’s what it takes to get those folks to their appointments and...
- Added: Jun 26, 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
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
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
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
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
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
Cherie inherits a stack of 33 letters, written by her grandfather, who died during the Korean War, and who Cherie’s family never talked about. Befo...
- Added: Sep 24, 2021
- Length: 19:47
Race and Identity at Home is a narrated public radio audio feature exploring parenting in multicultural families with Kristin Leong and Diana Opong...
- Added: Jun 04, 2021
- Length: 17:47
Walker meets up with a close friend at a favorite Thai restaurant to get her advice on the latest situation in her relationship with Trent.
- Added: Jan 15, 2021
- Length: 05:00
As healthcare workers, many of us have had to leave our home and go wherever our profession takes us. This week we asked you to reflect on what hom...
Bought by KFAI Minneapolis
- Added: Oct 19, 2020
- Length: 31:03
- Purchases: 1
What a decade-long fight taught Laura about relationships, laughter, and the grace we need to keep giving each other.
- Added: May 27, 2020
- Length: 15:32
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
Interdisciplinary artist Karen Krolak tells us about the t-shirt she hand-stitched for her father and why it's so important that she hold on to it.
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Dec 29, 2019
- Length: 15:38
- Purchases: 1
