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(Single) Mothered [A Mother's Day Special]: Choosing To Parent Solo
From: Embodied
Series: Embodied - Specials
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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?

Bought by KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., Spokane Public Radio, and RadioStPete Florida


  • Added: May 08, 2024
  • Length: 58:23
  • Purchases: 3
035: (Single) Mothered: Choosing to Parent Solo, 5/10/2024
From: Embodied
Series: Embodied
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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
So Far From Care Episodes 5 & 6
From: Marfa Public Radio
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In this special broadcast of episodes 5 and 6 of So Far From Care, we return to Marfa for two different stories. This tiny desert town is often ro...

  • Added: Feb 20, 2024
  • Length: 58:30
So Far From Care Episodes 3 & 4
From: Marfa Public Radio
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In episodes 3 and 4 of So Far From Care, "What We're Capable Of" and "She's Not Here," you’ll hear about what it’s like to live even further out th...

  • Added: Feb 20, 2024
  • Length: 54:30
Mountain Time Podcast Hour Episode 12
From: Wyoming Public Radio
Series: Mountain Time Podcast Hour
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Two stories about coexistence.

Bought by KHOL (Jackson Hole Community Radio) and KHOL (Jackson Hole Community Radio)


  • Added: Aug 17, 2022
  • Length: 51:20
  • Purchases: 2
The Spittle of Babes
From: Walker Raigh
Series: Scratch & Sniff
Caption: Scratch & Sniff Logo, Credit: Walker Raigh
A special Mother’s Day episode where Walker reads a letter she sent to her mom years ago to tell her why her desire to never have children does not...

  • Added: Feb 21, 2022
  • Length: 05:14
S1E15 Deep Rest
From: Colleen Thomas
Series: Shame Piñata
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What does your body need in order to rest fully? What does your heart need to soften a bit? What would it feel like to rest - not with one ear out ...

  • Added: Oct 16, 2020
  • Length: 13:21
S1E9 COVID-19 A Ritual for Flow
From: Colleen Thomas
Series: Shame Piñata
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In these less than normal times, when the world is crying out for change, it can be difficult to tell which way is up, let alone make decisions on ...

  • Added: Jun 12, 2020
  • Length: 11:29
Mullethawk
From: Laura Joyce Davis
Series: Shelter in Place
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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
S1E7 COVID-19 Releasing Overwhelm
From: Colleen Thomas
Series: Shame Piñata
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With so many things happening at once, it's easy for the nervous system to become overwhelmed. When this happens, it's hard to think, it's hard to ...

  • Added: May 01, 2020
  • Length: 13:20
Finding Our Fathers
From: University of Montana Journalism
Caption: Eboni (left) and Raven (right)
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
2 Years in America
From: KXCI
Series: Mn Huna: Finding Refuge in Friendship
Caption: Houda, her mom and sister, and their friend Mishelle on the tram in Sabino Canyon
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
Tying a Knot
From: Israel Story
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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
Pony
From: Ibby Caputo
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This is audio of a formerly incarcerated woman reading a letter she wrote while in prison.

  • Added: Nov 03, 2018
  • Length: 03:13
Kitty Keeps On Singing
From: Susan Barrett Price
Series: Family History: The Stars Who Guide Us
Caption: Kitty Flanagan Barrett Curran
Tribute to my grandmother: No matter what life hands them, great dames keep on singing.

Bought by WHQR and Public Radio East


  • Added: May 03, 2017
  • Length: 06:30
  • Purchases: 2
Beyond Choice: Organizing for Reproductive Justice
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Loretta Ross, Credit: Speak Out
Loretta Ross, co-founder of SisterSong breaks down the reproductive justice framework; and Tina Reynolds, co-founder and Chair of Women on the Rise...

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, XRAY.fm, WRIR, and WXDU


  • Added: Apr 08, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 4
#7: Nadia, Mama Please Bring Me Pants
From: Nadia Abuelezam
Series: Palestinians Podcast
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In this special Mother's Day episode of Palestinians Podcast you'll hear about Nadia Abuelezam's childhood and her love for her mother. Specificall...

  • Added: Jan 04, 2017
  • Length: 13:59
Poet and Professor Ellen Bryant Voigt
From: New Letters on the Air
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A 2015 MacArthur "Genius" Fellow Ellen Bryant Voigt talks with fellow poet and professor, Michelle Boisseau, about her collection HEADWATERS. Voigt...

Bought by WNJR


  • Added: Jan 21, 2016
  • Length: 30:30
  • Purchases: 1
Crying Dry Tears
From: Ibby Caputo
Caption: These eyes won't cry., Credit: Damian FitzPatrick
An homage to crying, originally aired on Radiotonic.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Dec 22, 2015
  • Length: 15:26
  • Purchases: 1
The Apocalypse
From: Liz McArthur
Series: The "Get to Know Me" occasional series
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I spent a lot of time with my grandmother when I was a kid. She told me some weird stuff about the imminent end of the world.

  • Added: Jul 31, 2015
  • Length: 04:19
In The Left Pocket, By My Heart
From: Jonathan Hirsch
Series: ARRVLS
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A story about the transformative power of loss. How one tiny life can become so large, that you begin to see it everywhere and in everything that y...

Bought by XRAY.fm


  • Added: Jul 31, 2015
  • Length: 20:02
  • Purchases: 1
E03 / The Dog with 3½ Names
From: Sarah Hoyles
Series: Pet Sounds
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She didn't start with her name or with me. We trace the pure bred mutt's story back to the beginning, or as best we can.

Bought by North State Public Radio


  • Added: May 14, 2015
  • Length: 14:29
  • Purchases: 1
It's Been Six Dates
From: Israel Story
Caption: The infamous staircase., Credit: Mishy Harman
Mishy Harman shares the zany matchmaking adventures of his Orthodox downstairs neighbor, which he had no chance but to overhear because all her dat...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio and PRX Remix


  • Added: Feb 26, 2015
  • Length: 09:27
  • Purchases: 2
Let's Get Intimate
From: Sara Brooke Curtis
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A personal essay exploring all kinds of intimacy.

  • Added: Dec 16, 2014
  • Length: 05:16
Hidden World Of Girls: My Mother
From: Samuel Robinson
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A selection of mother related messages from callers to the Kitchen Sisters' NPR phone-line. For Mother's Day 2011

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Nov 25, 2014
  • Length: 04:54
  • Purchases: 1