PRX - Pieces for Format: First-Person Essay
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Sixteen-year-old Shalvah Lazarus shares her own story and interviews other young female baseball players about the choice they face when they start...
- Added: Apr 03, 2024
- Length: 09:15
OutCasting youth broadcaster Declan – a trans guy – talks about experiencing gender from both sides of the fence.
- Added: Sep 30, 2022
- Length: 06:46
May 1, 2022 – What does a straight teenager do when he sees a lesbian schoolmate being taunted – and why?
- Added: Apr 30, 2022
- Length: 09:10
OutCaster Justin talks about what it means to LGBTQ youth, especially struggling youth, to see LGBTQ people elected to public office.
- Added: Nov 30, 2020
- Length: 07:00
Trans youth describes her discomfort with her own voice.
- Added: Apr 30, 2020
- Length: 04:49
From: Stories from Deep in the Heart, a project of Texas Folklife
Series: 2018 Martin Middle School Stories
Series: 2018 Martin Middle School Stories
Ms. Booth talks to students about her aviation-filled family history.
- Added: Jun 11, 2018
- Length: 05:39
When racism changes everything.
A late night recitation on that teenage decision of what will be your identity in matter of your friend's racism...
Bought by KPIP-LP
- Added: Nov 24, 2016
- Length: 05:42
- Purchases: 1
Does your race affect how you act? Well, it probably affected how you answered that question.... In this award-winning story, hear why one young ma...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, PRX Remix, and WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: Dec 21, 2015
- Length: 04:41
- Purchases: 3
Seventeen year-old Shamarra Rombawa lives in Wilmington, Delaware. Her city was dubbed "Murder Town" by a 2014 article in Newsweek because of its h...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Dec 16, 2015
- Length: 03:08
- Purchases: 1
How do you save an important piece of your past while building your future?
- Added: Dec 04, 2014
- Length: 06:39
When Radio Rookie Danielle Motindabeka came to the United States at age 13, she didn’t speak English. By the time she was in high school, Danielle ...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Jul 23, 2014
- Length: 07:15
- Purchases: 1
- Added: Apr 15, 2014
- Length: 03:42
- Added: Feb 27, 2013
- Length: 07:27
Using the poem "Where I'm From" by Willie Perdomo as a creative prompt, students created poems to share and express where they come from and how th...
- Added: Nov 12, 2012
- Length: 01:19
Using the poem "Where I'm From" by Willie Perdomo as a creative prompt, students created poems to share and express where they come from and how th...
- Added: Nov 12, 2012
- Length: 01:31
This week it's our 6th Annual Mothers Show, celebrating the awesome power of motherhood. Stories by May Griebel, Jan Hamlett, and Mike Noland. All ...
- Added: May 11, 2012
- Length: 29:00
This week our writers go up against the elements of water, fire, and earth-- and live to tell the tale. Stories by David Prud'homme, Holly Patton, ...
- Added: Apr 01, 2012
- Length: 29:00
This week's stories are about words, and the silences between sentences. Madelyn Young reaches out to one of her students, Robin Satterfield strugg...
Bought by PRX Remix, KFOK-LPFM, and KUAF Public Radio
- Added: Jul 22, 2011
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 3
Award-winning author Kevin Brockmeier returns to his childhood hometown only to find it has changed as much as he has. Southern-style storytelling ...
- Added: Jun 13, 2011
- Length: 29:00
When Brenda was 7, she was carried across the border from Mexico. Now 19, the Minneapolis teen wishes she could live and work legally in the countr...
Bought by WTIP, WGXC, KUNM, Radijojo World Children's Radio Network, and KSFR
- Added: Dec 08, 2010
- Length: 06:55
- Purchases: 5
Aspergers, in my opinion, has always been misunderstood due to it being a medical "condition." When you listen to this, I ask that you go in with ...
Bought by HowSound, WRST-FM Oshkosh, WTIP, KFAI Minneapolis, KSFR and more
- Added: Nov 09, 2010
- Length: 05:47
- Purchases: 8
A poem by three students from the Santa Fe Indian School's Spoken Word team -- Santana Shorty, Clara Natonabah, and Nolan Eskeets -- about understa...
- Added: Apr 21, 2010
- Length: 03:38
If given the chance would you take that environmental class in high school?
Bought by Radijojo World Children's Radio Network
- Added: Jun 12, 2009
- Length: 03:17
- Purchases: 1
