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Where are you from?
From: Terrascope Radio
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"Where are you from? ... No, where are you REALLY from?" Because of her skin tone and features, Milani Chatterji-Len gets asked this question all t...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Dec 05, 2016
  • Length: 04:12
  • Purchases: 2
The Asian-American Juggling Act
From: Syracuse University Broadcast Journalism
Caption: Taiwanese American Hairol Ma struggles with finding her place in upstate New York., Credit: Anjani Iman
Westernized Asian-Americans across the United States struggle with finding their place in a seemingly divided country between white people and fore...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Nov 17, 2016
  • Length: 03:15
  • Purchases: 1
GJ - Young Women United
From: Generation Justice Admin
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GJ Fellow Alissiea Hernandez speaks with Young Women United.

  • Added: Nov 07, 2016
  • Length: 22:06
StoryCorps: Jasmine Pacheco and Carmen Pacheco-Jones
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
Caption: Jasmine Pacheco (left) and Carmen Pacheco-Jones (right)
A mother talks to her daughter about what it was like to reconnect with her children after her years of drug and alcohol abuse tore their family ap...

Bought by West Virginia Public Broadcasting and WMUU-LP


  • Added: Oct 31, 2016
  • Length: 02:30
  • Purchases: 2
Majd's Diary: Two Years in the Life of a Saudi Girl
From: Radio Diaries
Series: Teenage Diaries
Caption: Majd Abdulghani
Majd Abdulghani is a teenager living in Saudi Arabia, one of the most restrictive countries for women in the world. She wants to be a scientist. He...

Bought by Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Oct 17, 2016
  • Length: 30:45
  • Purchases: 3
Interview with Carrie Mullins, author of Night Garden
From: Roxy Todd
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It’s been about 15 years since the opioid epidemic first hit Appalachia. And now, there’s a whole generation of teenagers in West Virginia and Kent...

  • Added: Sep 21, 2016
  • Length: 05:01
Emily Weiss, Founder, Glossier
From: From Scratch
Series: From Scratch
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Glossier is an online beauty company that launched on Instagram in 2014. Emily is also the founder of Into the Gloss, an online community dedicated...

  • Added: Aug 23, 2016
  • Length: 19:00
Look in a Mirror. Up Your Game. #526
From: Teosson Wells
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Slothfully inclined and vanity deficient? Less is more ... dress better!

  • Added: Aug 18, 2016
  • Length: 09:10
Sexual Violence & Walk a Mile in Her Shoes
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Area Voices
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A conversation about Sexual Violence and the Walk a Mile in Her Shoes Events in Northern Minnesota

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio


  • Added: Aug 17, 2016
  • Length: 12:49
  • Purchases: 1
StoryCorps: Savannah Phelan and Kellie Phelan
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
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Savannah Phelan, 8, talks with her mother, Kellie, about how she felt after learning that her mother was in jail on Rikers Island at the time of he...

Bought by WMUU-LP and WEZU


  • Added: Aug 08, 2016
  • Length: 02:38
  • Purchases: 2
Interview with May Sagbakken
From: Generation Justice Admin
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May Sagbakken is the executive director of the Rape Crisis Center of Central New Mexico. Over the last forty years the Rape Crisis Center has provi...

  • Added: Jul 25, 2016
  • Length: 06:19
Interivew with Cathy Cooks
From: Generation Justice Admin
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Cathy Cooks is an activist with Students for Reproductive Justice. She talks about her report from the DOJ and their findings. Interviewing Cathy i...

  • Added: Jul 25, 2016
  • Length: 08:59
Northern Minnesota Girls Who Code Camp at Bemidji State University
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Area Voices
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We talk with Jennifer Theisen, IT developer and analyst at Bemidji State University. She is the organizer of the Northern Minnesota Girls Who Code...

  • Added: Jun 14, 2016
  • Length: 07:29
43: Girls & Sex & Fuitina: Peggy Orenstein and Antonella Vitale
From: KALW
Series: Inflection Point with Lauren Schiller
Caption: Peggy Orenstein, Credit: Michael Todd
Birds do it. Bees do it. But we definitely don't want to think about our teens doing it. For her new book, "Girls and Sex. Navigating the Complicat...

Bought by KWMR, WRIR, KSJD, and WMUU-LP


  • Added: May 25, 2016
  • Length: 53:58
  • Purchases: 4
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
Slut Walk
From: Syracuse University Broadcast Journalism - 2
Caption: Students at Syracuse University march around campus holding signs and chanting.
A piece about college students standing for change and ending rape culture.

  • Added: May 10, 2016
  • Length: 03:26
Ideas Books: Joanne Entwistle - The Fashioned Body, Fashion, Dress and Modern Social Theory
From: Craig Barfoot
Series: Ideas Books
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An interview with fashion theorist Dr. Joanne Entwistle about her book, The Fashioned Body. The Fashioned Body provides a wide-ranging and original...

Bought by KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio]


  • Added: Apr 19, 2016
  • Length: 28:01
  • Purchases: 1
Episode 21 - Red Queen by Victoria Aveyard
From: Kitty Felde
Series: Book Club for Kids
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We enter a world divided into two kinds of people: the silver ruling elite and the red underclass. It’s Victoria Aveyard’s RED QUEEN. And it was th...

  • Added: Apr 13, 2016
  • Length: 22:44
Roller Derby Skates Into Mainstream Sports
From: Syracuse University Broadcast Journalism
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Roller Derby is moving to the mainstream as the sport begins to emphasize its athleticism and gain national exposure. On the cusp of widespread pop...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Apr 05, 2016
  • Length: 04:24
  • Purchases: 1
Episode 13: The Girl Who Dug Up Dinosaurs
From: KRCC-FM
Series: Wish We Were Here
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A 12-year-old girl in blue jeans probably isn’t the first thing you picture when you hear the word paleontologist. But in 1979, young India Wood di...

  • Added: Mar 31, 2016
  • Length: 58:59
Kupatia
From: Open Orchard Productions
Series: The Core by Open Orchard Productions
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High School Senior, Eavan Burke, had a life changing experience on the tea plantations of Kenya, Africa. She decided to aid to the workers by creat...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 25, 2016
  • Length: 04:52
  • Purchases: 1
52: The Period Piece (There Will Be Blood)
From: The Mortified Podcast
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Women relive the horrors of the 1st time they faced "that time of the month.

  • Added: Mar 11, 2016
  • Length: 21:11
Never Too Young to Save Lives
From: Open Orchard Productions
Series: The Core by Open Orchard Productions
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At the mere age of 16, Jihana Mendu went on the adventure of a lifetime to Peru. While there to pursue her ambition of working in the medical field...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 03, 2016
  • Length: 03:54
  • Purchases: 1
Episode 10 - A Mango Shaped Space
From: Kitty Felde
Series: Book Club for Kids
Caption: The Mother Daughter Book Club at One More Page bookstore discusses "A Mango Shaped Space" by Wendy Mass
Do you see colors when you do math problems? The heroine of "A Mango Shaped Space" does. Kids from the Mother/Daughter Book Club at One More Page b...

  • Added: Feb 23, 2016
  • Length: 19:28
Episode 11 - Yaqui Delgado Wants to Kick Your Ass
From: Kitty Felde
Series: Book Club for Kids
Caption: Lila Trujillo and Julia Cooper join writer Meg Medina to discuss her book.
Book Club for Kids goes to Hooray For Books! bookstore in Alexandria, Virginia to talk about Meg Medina's novel about bullying and mother-daughter ...

  • Added: Feb 23, 2016
  • Length: 22:33

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