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“Never let go of your authentic self, even if it must be in hiding for now. Protect it like a lit match in the wind. Don’t let fear blow it out.” ...

  • Added: Oct 07, 2021
  • Length: 06:21
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“Today we see that the past is the future, and what once was will be once again.” Stimson offers a powerful call-and-response to John F. Kennedy’s...

  • Added: Sep 30, 2021
  • Length: 08:22
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“Only we, the people together, can inhabit the world differently. We are not united by the illusion of saving the world but defending life, binding...

  • Added: Sep 23, 2021
  • Length: 08:43
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“Only we, the people together, can inhabit the world differently. We are not united by the illusion of saving the world but defending life, binding...

  • Added: Sep 23, 2021
  • Length: 08:57
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“Is it my greed? Is it my greed that propels me to behave like this? How do I learn to share? Is it my fear? Is it my fear that propels me to behav...

  • Added: Sep 20, 2021
  • Length: 09:53
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“Do you even know what you want to want?” Jacob takes us on a looping and circuitous path through self-care and empowerment rhetoric. “Own it!” “Y...

  • Added: Sep 09, 2021
  • Length: 03:16
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“Hope has always been necessary, but I do wonder if we’ve really ever had it.” Set against the backdrop of COVID-19 in New York, and rooted in com...

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Sep 02, 2021
  • Length: 07:05
  • Purchases: 1
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“When I say ‘Let’s get cozy,’ I’m asking you to join me in the making of a new and better world.” Gotkin reflects on the historical, social, and p...

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Aug 27, 2021
  • Length: 07:47
  • Purchases: 1
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“drag your body into the sunlight / dig a hole and bury yourself in it” Delivered via distorted and whispering proxy, Walden sends a biocentric me...

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Aug 20, 2021
  • Length: 02:40
  • Purchases: 1
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“We envision a timeless and a historical future. We bury our seen and unseen dead. We mourn all of our losses. We catalogue our human and more-than...

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Aug 12, 2021
  • Length: 07:13
  • Purchases: 1
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“To live, we need to breathe, to be held and to hold, to love and be loved, to make kin and communities. Yes, to love and be loved.” In a rousing...

  • Added: Aug 09, 2021
  • Length: 08:39
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“Keep going, keep going.” Wngz sings, whispers, and celebrates the legacies and histories that helped her find her voice: Sankofa; Harriet Tubman;...

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Aug 09, 2021
  • Length: 04:55
  • Purchases: 1
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Returning in a new iteration for 2021, "Artists-In-Presidents: Transmissions to Power” invites artists, public intellectuals, and writers to radica...

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Aug 09, 2021
  • Length: 03:35
  • Purchases: 1
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A new documentary explores Allen Ginsberg’s time in India.

  • Added: Jun 01, 2021
  • Length: 06:00
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Anni discusses her dating etiquette related experiences and insights. Anni self-identifies as a CIS-gender female who has fluid sexuality. #lesbi...

  • Added: Jun 01, 2021
  • Length: 58:48
Caption: The negatives reveal the truth beyond the memory., Credit: Paula Nelson
A rich, intimate story of family, childhood memories, and rediscovering old photographs and the stories that connect them.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: May 25, 2021
  • Length: 16:36
  • Purchases: 1
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Is ‘home’ a place or more of a feeling? Jocelyn Robinson speaks with three American expats who unpack the relationship between self and place, draw...

Bought by KICI Iowa City


  • Added: May 06, 2021
  • Length: 27:58
  • Purchases: 1
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One day, Jakob Lewis receives an email from a German man named Ingo asking to be his pen pal. The close relationship they develop teaches Jakob tha...

Bought by KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Mar 25, 2021
  • Length: 27:55
  • Purchases: 1
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This piece is an emotional account of having a child with Autism.

Bought by KPTZ, Port Townsend, WA, KKRN, KGUA, KWMR, and RadioStPete Florida


  • Added: Mar 15, 2021
  • Length: 05:17
  • Purchases: 5
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Making sense of my father and our estranged relationship with the music he left me.

  • Added: Feb 26, 2021
  • Length: 04:43
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I’ve made this piece based off of how it feels to be a wrestler.

  • Added: Feb 18, 2021
  • Length: 05:53
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Katie Davis tells the story of an inadvertent provocation between two boys at a teen center in her Washington, D.C. neighborhood, the conflict that...

Bought by KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Jan 28, 2021
  • Length: 24:52
  • Purchases: 1
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Walker meets up with a close friend at a favorite Thai restaurant to get her advice on the latest situation in her relationship with Trent.

  • Added: Jan 15, 2021
  • Length: 05:00
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Bob Dylan... "sing as he might about The Times They are A-Changing, Dylans deal, worth an estimated $300 million to him, changed nothing about anyt...

  • Added: Dec 16, 2020
  • Length: 03:00
Caption: Live turkeys in Kolkata, Credit: Sandip Roy
Thanksgiving has always been my favorite American holiday, and this has been a year where we learned to be thankful for all the things we once took...

Bought by RadioStPete Florida


  • Added: Nov 23, 2020
  • Length: 06:00
  • Purchases: 1