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Youth and Gender on the Inside, Part One
From: WFHB
Series: Kite Line
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This week, we cover some sensitive topics on the show. We speak with Fable, who tells her story of incarceration when she was barely 18 years old. ...

  • Added: Mar 09, 2020
  • Length: 29:02
From the Ground Up
From: Ruxandra Guidi
Series: Surviving California
Caption: Kateri Gutierrez at Collective Avenue Coffee, Credit: Photo by Ben Tran
Like many kids who come from working class immigrant families, Kateri Gutierrez felt a lot of pressure to get ahead. After a brief stint trying to ...

  • Added: Jul 21, 2019
  • Length: 07:05
Catcalling
From: Ariel Mejia
Series: ASM Youth Radio Summer 2018
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I made a story about catcalling to address how people felt and how people thought about catcalling

  • Added: Aug 03, 2018
  • Length: 08:48
Bought and Sold
From: American Public Media
Series: APM Reports
Caption: Javille Sutton was a 14-year-old runaway when she accepted a ride from a pimp who sold her across the country for the next six years. She was arrested multiple times as a juvenile. She now counsels girls at a horse ranch for young victims of trafficking.
Advocates for kids are pushing for a new approach to combating underage prostitution: treating young people caught up in sex trafficking as victims...

Bought by WMUU-LP, KUER, WRIR, WEKU, Georgia Public Broadcasting and more


  • Added: May 12, 2016
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 13
For Some It's Philanthropy, But For Others -- It's Personal. How A Group Of Sorority Girls Are Celebrating April By Raising Awareness For Autism
From: Syracuse University Broadcast Journalism
Caption: Members of Alpha Xi Delta at Syracuse Light Up the Hall of Languages Blue, Credit: Laura Tatro
This April, sisters of Alpha Xi Delta sorority chapters across the country are working to raise awareness for Autism. Syracuse University sorority ...

  • Added: Apr 06, 2015
  • Length: 04:05
The Hamlin School celebrates 150 years tradition and innovation
From: KALW
Series: Crosscurrents
Caption: The Hamlin School on Broadway Street in Pacific Heights, Credit: Flickr user rocor
Callie Jones is showing me how to 3D print a tiny yellow chess piece, after designing it herself on a computer. It’s her second day in the 3D print...

  • Added: Oct 16, 2014
  • Length: 06:04
The Mary Jane Mindset: Teenagers and Marijuana
From: Radio Rookies
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Radio Rookies Temitayo Fagbenle and Gemma Weiner spent the past several months talking to dozens of teenagers who smoke weed about where they buy i...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio and WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Dec 19, 2013
  • Length: 08:17
  • Purchases: 2
Feds Find Texas School Violated Alleged Rape Victim’s Civil Rights
From: Texas News Service
Caption: PRX default Piece image
HENDERSON, Texas - An east Texas high school senior who reported being raped on campus by a fellow student in 2010 was wronged when she was punishe...

  • Added: Jun 22, 2012
  • Length: 02:43
Young Women Leaders Program
From: With Good Reason
Series: news features
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Middle school girls have a lot to deal with. One psychologist says that a way to help them is by pairing the preteen girls with college-aged mentor...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KENW, KZYX, and New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Apr 30, 2012
  • Length: 02:25
  • Purchases: 4
Go Vote, Sister Suffragette
From: Lauren Peterson
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Less than one hundred years ago, women voted for the first time in a national election. Two months ago, Lauren Peterson headed to the polls for a s...

  • Added: Apr 05, 2011
  • Length: 04:48
Prison Doulas-Supporting Pregnant Women Behind Bars
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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For most women, the way their pregnancy, labor, and recuperation is handled by the correctional system has a lot to be desired. But there are some...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio and KUOW


  • Added: Mar 30, 2011
  • Length: 09:35
  • Purchases: 2
A girl on the football team?!
From: Y-Press
Series: Gender
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In the 40 years since Title IX was enacted girls’ participation in high school and college sports has risen over 900 percent. Y-Press radio produce...

Bought by WXDU and Radijojo World Children's Radio Network


  • Added: Jan 04, 2011
  • Length: 03:06
  • Purchases: 2
Gender today, gender yesterday
From: Y-Press
Series: Gender
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Y-Press 17-year-old journalist Tommaso Verderame talks with several experts on contemporary gender issues.

Bought by Radijojo World Children's Radio Network


  • Added: Jan 04, 2011
  • Length: 02:53
  • Purchases: 1
Digital natives
From: Y-Press
Series: Teens and media
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According to Wikipedia a digital native "is a person who was born after the general implementation of digital technology, and, as a result, has a f...

Bought by Radijojo World Children's Radio Network


  • Added: Aug 27, 2010
  • Length: 02:55
  • Purchases: 1