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Models On Beauty
From: Connecticut Public (WNPR)
Series: Audacious with Chion Wolf
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Hear from a fashion model with decades in the industry, a model who uses a wheelchair, and two non-binary models about what beauty means to them.

Bought by KTSW 89.9


  • Added: Mar 29, 2024
  • Length: 50:00
  • Purchases: 1
09-18: Laboring for Justice: See No Stranger, 7/19/2023
From: Bioneers
Series: Bioneers - Revolution From the Heart of Nature
Caption: Valerie Kaur
In a world that’s unraveling from climate disruption and gaping inequality, another climate crisis confronts us: the climate of hate and othering. ...

  • Added: Jul 11, 2023
  • Length: 28:30
Disruptive Narratives With Dr. Brittany Lewis: A Conversation with Stayci Bell (Part 1)
From: KMOJ-FM
Series: Disruptive Narratives with Dr. Brittany Lewis
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Stayci Bell is a daughter, mother, grandmother, gardener, photographer, actress, puppeteer, healer, leader and story tell. Stayci defines her self ...

  • Added: Sep 26, 2022
  • Length: 30:12
The Woman Behind The New Deal
From: Rebecca McInroy
Series: American Compassion
Caption: American Compassion, Credit: Bonnie Siegler
In the second episode of American Compassion, we turn to the story of how the core elements of our safety net began to come together in the lives a...

Bought by KUT and Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: Aug 03, 2022
  • Length: 57:00
  • Purchases: 2
Maria Dodaro: You Have To Be on Time
From: Shefik Macauley
Series: Shefik presents Invocation: The Journey Continues
Caption: Maria Dodaro, Credit: Shefik
Time - Maria Dodaro is a swim coach and aquatics director. Swimming coaches help swimmers perfect their breathing techniques, swim speed, and may w...

  • Added: Dec 22, 2021
  • Length: 01:46
131: How Eve Rodsky Is Ending the Gendered Division of Labor at Home
From: KALW
Series: Inflection Point with Lauren Schiller
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When Eve Rodsky found herself sobbing on the side of the road over a text about blueberries, she knew something had to change. Hence began her seve...

Bought by KCSB-FM, WNIN, KWIT, KKRN, KUT and more


  • Added: Nov 07, 2019
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 8
Bend, but Don't Break
From: Out of the Blocks
Series: Out of the Blocks, Quick Hits
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My mom always used to tell me, 'Only the strong survive.' To this day, those words live in me.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Oct 17, 2019
  • Length: 04:17
  • Purchases: 1
The Write Question - Stephanie Land - 412
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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Stephanie Land discusses her memoir, "Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother's Will to Survive." She also reads a few short passages.

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., Prairie Public, KWMR, Spokane Public Radio, and Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Feb 20, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 5
StoryCorps: Larry Kushner and Eileen Kushner
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
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As an adult, Eileen was diagnosed with a learning disability. At StoryCorps, she remembers how she overcame the challenges she faced at work.

Bought by WGUC/ WVXU


  • Added: Sep 19, 2016
  • Length: 02:38
  • Purchases: 1
A Free Spirit Gets Hard-Nosed About Business - Kristine Jones - Ep 08
From: The Story Exchange
Series: The Story Exchange
Caption: Kristine Jones, New England Flagger Services
Kristine Jones started a business on a whim in an obscure, cutthroat industry. Then she got serious about building a strong company.

  • Added: Jan 21, 2016
  • Length: 13:45
Baby's Bodyguard
From: Re:Work
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All of us are on this planet because we were born. Still, for most of us, giving birth is so mysterious. Many people don’t really learn about what ...

  • Added: Jul 31, 2015
  • Length: 28:00
Karen Buscemi & The Quest for A Fashion District in Detroit#17
From: Romy Kochan
Series: Season One: Bonfires of Social Enterprise
Caption: Detroit Garment Group Founder Karen Buscemi, Credit: Boswell
The Bonfires of Social Enterprise episode with Detroit fashion writer turned job maker and social enterprise entrepreneuer. Karen Buscemi is trying...

  • Added: Jul 28, 2015
  • Length: 28:08
Why do we wait so long? Jackie’s Journey to a home.
From: D. 'Fitz' Allgood
Series: The Allgood News
Caption: Jackie taking a break from building her house.
Dreams can be as simple as a home and a flower garden. Jackie walked by the Habitat for Humanity application for 2 years.

  • Added: Dec 01, 2014
  • Length: 01:33
StoryCorps: Tina Vasquez and Sonia Vasquez
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
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Tina Vasquez tells her mother, Sonia Vasquez, about what it was like to grow up...

Bought by WMUU-LP, WRIR, WEZU, and WTJU


  • Added: Oct 16, 2014
  • Length: 01:59
  • Purchases: 4
A Dream Job
From: Daniel Wanschura
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What exactly is a dream job? Is it one that pays a lot of money? One where you don’t have to do much work? Is it one that makes you famous? …Or, is...

  • Added: Sep 25, 2014
  • Length: 04:58
StoryCorps: Barbara Moore and Olivia Fite
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
Caption: Olivia Fite (left) and her mother Barbara Moore.
Barbara Moore (R) tells her daughter, Olivia Fite (L), about becoming a bricklayer in the...

Bought by WVBI-LP, WXPR, WEZU, KIDE Hoopa Tribal Radio 91.3fm, KERA and more


  • Added: Aug 21, 2014
  • Length: 02:14
  • Purchases: 6
Day Job 5: Fear And The Flying Trapeze
From: Joshua McNichols
Series: Day Job: How Musicians Pay The Rent (2014 Series)
Caption: A trapeze student, Credit: Joshua McNichols
Kari Kirkland stands on a narrow platform high above the ground. As a trapeze instructor, her job is to convince students to jump off that platform...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, Delmarva Public Media, and KUOW


  • Added: May 20, 2014
  • Length: 16:18
  • Purchases: 3
Sustaining Activism
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Emma Sokoloff-Rubin & friends
This is the story of a father-daughter research team who spent 10-years studying the Brazilian Women’s Movement of the 1980s.

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Feb 28, 2013
  • Length: 28:58
  • Purchases: 1
Mary Harris “Mother” Jones
From: KSLU
Series: In Your Face Women
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What does a woman do when her husband and four children all die of yellow fever and her dressmaking workshop burns to the ground? She becomes an in...

  • Added: Oct 08, 2012
  • Length: 02:14
Dolores Huerta
From: KSLU
Series: In Your Face Women
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Dolores Huerta left her teaching job as a young woman to commit herself to working in the struggle for equal rights

  • Added: Oct 08, 2012
  • Length: 02:14
Good Jobs, Clean Environment: Both or Neither
From: Bioneers
Series: Bioneers Radio Series 12
Caption: Roxanne Brown, Credit: Jennifer Esperanza (c)
The emerging green economy promises to provide large-scale job creation while healing the Earth and building the middle class.

Bought by Panhandle Community Radio, KKRN, KFCF FM, and WDSE


  • Added: Jun 26, 2012
  • Length: 28:31
  • Purchases: 4
Sen. Julie Lassa, Madison, March 12, 2011
From: Lauren Peterson
Series: Madison protests
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Sen. Julie Lassa addresses a crowd on the capitol square upon her return to Madison, WI on March 12, 2011.

  • Added: Mar 12, 2011
  • Length: 01:51
StoryCorps: Dee Dickson
From: StoryCorps
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Dee Dickson remembers trying to get a job as a shipyard electrician in the 1970s.

Bought by KUER, WEZU, Troy Public Radio, KISU, and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Feb 28, 2011
  • Length: 01:51
  • Purchases: 5
From sweat shop to co-op
From: Marie Trigona
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Thousands of Bolivians migrated to Argentina in search of a liveable wage, only to find themselves sewing designer jeans in sweat shops under slave...

Bought by WBEZ


  • Added: May 21, 2008
  • Length: 05:44
  • Purchases: 1
Blind Traveler
From: daniella ponet
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Pat, a blind activist and singer/poet, describes her life in New York City

  • Added: May 13, 2007
  • Length: 10:01