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March 2023 – Coming out
From: Media for the Public Good, Inc. - OutCasting Media
Series: OutCasting Overtime
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For many gay teens, it’s easier to come out than it was for earlier generations. But is that true for everyone?

  • Added: Feb 28, 2023
  • Length: 04:48
How anti-LGBTQ violence affects youth
From: Media for the Public Good, Inc. - OutCasting Media
Series: OutCasting Overtime
Caption: OutCasting youth broadcaster Brianna
Following yet another American mass shooting, OutCasting youth broadcaster Brianna reflects on the Pulse massacre in 2016.

  • Added: Nov 30, 2022
  • Length: 06:56
“It’s not my responsibility to educate you.”
From: Media for the Public Good, Inc. - OutCasting Media
Series: OutCasting Overtime
Caption: OutCasting youth broadcaster Declan
Unfairly burdening LGBTQ teens.

  • Added: Jul 31, 2022
  • Length: 07:29
Gatekeeping within the LGBTQ community
From: Media for the Public Good, Inc. - OutCasting Media
Series: OutCasting Overtime
Caption: OutCasting youth participant Carol
March 1, 2022 – Should you have be very visibly gay, or if you're trans, undergo medical transition to “earn your place”?

  • Added: Feb 28, 2022
  • Length: 13:01
Desmond Tutu and the continuing importance of youth activism
From: Media for the Public Good, Inc. - OutCasting Media
Series: OutCasting Overtime
Caption: Archbishop Desmond Tutu
February 1, 2022 – A young straight ally considers his own place in activism

Bought by RADIOLEX


  • Added: Jan 30, 2022
  • Length: 08:05
  • Purchases: 1
Let KidZ Talk - Celebrating Black Heroes
From: DW From
Series: Let KidZ Talk
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We asked our peers to share one of their Black Heroes...

  • Added: Mar 03, 2021
  • Length: 04:51
Removing Colonizer Statues & Demands for Local Police
From: Generation Justice Admin
Caption: Left: Tweety Suazo; Right: Jim Harvey
Juan de Onate is responsible for brutalizing New Mexico’s Indigenous people...hear more about the history of the Spanish colonizer.

  • Added: Jul 02, 2020
  • Length: 59:02
Not Quite Through the Storm
From: Narrative Arts
Series: Coastal Youth Media
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When Hurricane Florence hit coastal North Carolina, Shecoria Smith, age 16, was worried about her father returning from a work trip.

  • Added: Mar 12, 2020
  • Length: 02:49
‘You deserve better’: How a class on healthy relationships changed her life
From: Anne Hoffman
Series: Philly Audio Diaries
Caption: Kyleah Smith at WHYY studios in Philadelphia, Credit: (Emma Lee/WHYY)
One in three American adolescents is a victim of physical, sexual, emotional, or verbal abuse from a dating partner. To 20-year-old Kyleah Smith, d...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Aug 12, 2019
  • Length: 04:23
  • Purchases: 1
Ruined
From: Ariel Mejia
Series: ASM Youth Radio Summer 2019
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My piece is about my journey through life since 4th grade, when I realized I was an LGBTQ+ individual.

  • Added: Aug 08, 2019
  • Length: 10:07
July 2019 – Addressing queer stereotypes
From: Media for the Public Good, Inc. - OutCasting Media
Series: OutCasting Overtime
Caption: OutCasting youth participant Alex
July 1, 2019 - OutCaster Alex talks about a stereotype about bisexual people and how his own coming out story fits into it.

  • Added: Jun 29, 2019
  • Length: 04:06
April 2019 – The importance of pronouns to trans people
From: Media for the Public Good, Inc. - OutCasting Media
Series: OutCasting Overtime
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OutCasting youth participant Amalee talks about the importance of using preferred personal pronouns, especially for trans people.

Bought by KUAF Public Radio, PRX Remix, and C89.5 - KNHC Seattle


  • Added: Mar 29, 2019
  • Length: 05:16
  • Purchases: 3
LGBTQ youth suicide
From: Media for the Public Good, Inc. - OutCasting Media
Series: OutCasting Overtime
Caption: OutCasting youth participants Lucas and Dhruv
A nine-year-old gay boy recently committed suicide after being bullied in school. OutCasting youth participants Dhruv and Lucas talk about ways to...

Bought by KRZA, Radio Catskill, and WORT


  • Added: Sep 28, 2018
  • Length: 05:24
  • Purchases: 3
OutCasting Overtime - May 2018 – Marlon Bundo
From: Media for the Public Good, Inc. - OutCasting Media
Series: OutCasting Overtime
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A pet bunny gets recast as gay in a children’s book parodying a similar book created by members of VP Mike Pence’s family.

Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh


  • Added: Apr 27, 2018
  • Length: 04:33
  • Purchases: 1
The American Dream?
From: Open Orchard Productions
Series: The Harvest by Open Orchard Productions
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Junior year is universally known as the most difficult, stressful year of high school. Between academics, extra-curriculars, and athletics, college...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Jun 03, 2015
  • Length: 01:49
  • Purchases: 1
Tech
From: Littleglobe
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Tilcara Webb delves into the pros and cons of technology. Evil agent of lost hours, or helpful Godsend?

  • Added: Sep 26, 2013
  • Length: 03:37
Culturology: An essay from Erika Kooda - "Oceans"
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Culturology
Caption: Erika Kooda
For the last few months of 2012, and on into June, Erika Kooda was an intern at Northern Community Radio, and a senior at Grand Rapids High School....

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio and KSRQ


  • Added: Aug 05, 2013
  • Length: 02:31
  • Purchases: 2
Culturology: An essay from Erika Kooda - "Band Trip To Hawaii: Part One
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Culturology
Caption: Erika Kooda
Erika Kooda is a senior at Grand Rapids High School and an intern at Northern Community Radio. During the school year she's checked in with essays ...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio and KSRQ


  • Added: Jun 06, 2013
  • Length: 05:12
  • Purchases: 2
Culturology: An essay from Erika Kooda - The Ways Northern Community Radio Breaks the Mold
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Culturology
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Erika Kooda is a senior at Grand Rapids High School and an intern at Northern Community Radio. During the school year she's been checking in with e...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio


  • Added: Apr 17, 2013
  • Length: 03:25
  • Purchases: 1
Culturology: An essay from Erika Kooda previewing some TV and movies that might keep you cozy this winter
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Culturology
Caption: Erika Kooda
Erika Kooda is a senior at Grand Rapids High School. During the school year she's been checking in with essays reflecting on her experience. In thi...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio and KSRQ


  • Added: Jan 23, 2013
  • Length: 03:23
  • Purchases: 2
Judging graffiti: Art or vandalism?
From: KALW
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As you go from place to place in San Francisco – in neighborhoods like downtown and the Haight, and along Market Street – all around you'll see gra...

Bought by WDBM and KSFR


  • Added: Aug 29, 2012
  • Length: 06:05
  • Purchases: 2
"What is American?" Seeds of Sound
From: Littleglobe
Caption: Striking Photography by Bo Insogna, Flicker.com
To Gabe Rima, a Monte Del Sol Senior, being American cannot be easily defined. With the majority of the American population being a multitude of cu...

Bought by WTIP, WTIP, and KDNK


  • Added: Apr 05, 2011
  • Length: 04:37
  • Purchases: 3
The Radio Workshop—Infecting the City
From: michal rahfaldt
Series: The Radio Workshop
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Art infected the Cape Town city centre and the Children's Radio Foundation was there to capture all the excitement, performance and creativity. Hun...

  • Added: Mar 15, 2011
  • Length: 15:00
What If
From: Littleglobe
Caption: Shooting Stars, Credit: By StephanVDS(.com)
In this piece, Ellie Evans, a student from the New Mexico School For The Arts, asks the question: What if? What if the world were different? This...

Bought by KUER and New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Feb 22, 2011
  • Length: 03:50
  • Purchases: 2
E-Mentors
From: KBEM
Series: What's Real
Caption: Amy Vang, Credit: Phil Nusbaum
Business professionals are helping high school students get started in business careers through an e-mentoring program. The program, through the Ta...

  • Added: Feb 12, 2011
  • Length: 01:00