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
What's lost when kids don't learn about the homophobic context in which the pandemic unfolded?
- Added: Jun 30, 2021
- Length: 08:37
How did he deal with it? Was his school helpful? What did he learn from it?
Bought by KZMU Moab Community Radio
- Added: Mar 31, 2021
- Length: 04:51
- Purchases: 1
Does that make him "a little bit" transgender?
Bought by KZMU Moab Community Radio
- Added: Jan 29, 2021
- Length: 03:58
- Purchases: 1
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
Raven and Eboni are friends who look like each other. And there are not a lot of people who like they do at their college in Missoula, Montana. But...
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: May 02, 2019
- Length: 05:45
- Purchases: 1
From: Stories from Deep in the Heart, a project of Texas Folklife
Series: Highland Park 2018 Youth Stories
Series: Highland Park 2018 Youth Stories
Jake's been playing baseball since age 4, but his family has been playing for generations.
- Added: Dec 11, 2018
- Length: 04:11
From: Stories from Deep in the Heart, a project of Texas Folklife
Series: Highland Park 2018 Youth Stories
Series: Highland Park 2018 Youth Stories
You don't have to keep your traditions. You can always change them to make them better.
- Added: Dec 11, 2018
- Length: 03:50
A piece that explains an international student's perspective on American social media use, and the ways in which this has reduced the quality of fa...
- Added: Nov 14, 2018
- Length: 05:57
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
From: Stories from Deep in the Heart, a project of Texas Folklife
Series: Martin Middle School 2016-17 Stories
Series: Martin Middle School 2016-17 Stories
Kids at Martin Middle School discuss what Dia de los Muertos means to them.
Bought by RADIOLEX, KZMU Moab Community Radio, and KICI Iowa City
- Added: Jun 05, 2017
- Length: 03:11
- Purchases: 3
Before she started running the horse therapy program at Rocky Mountain Treatment Center in Great Falls, MT, Jessica Hofer was an addict. For her, s...
Bought by WYAP
- Added: Apr 07, 2017
- Length: 02:37
- Purchases: 1
A friendly prank puts Kathryn in a "complicated" Facebook relationship with a sloth, but maybe that's just what her love life needs right now.
- Added: Jan 20, 2017
- Length: 04:45
"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
From: Stories from Deep in the Heart, a project of Texas Folklife
Series: 2015 O Henry Middle School Stories
Series: 2015 O Henry Middle School Stories
The child of two Longhorn Band veterans digs into the unseen world of the band's strangest traditions, from "hupping" to the secret "10 til 2" saying.
- Added: Jan 23, 2016
- Length: 05:06
Physics, math, canyoning between buildings: Not scary. Finding an apartment, learning how to vote: Scary. How one young woman feels about making th...
- Added: Dec 21, 2015
- Length: 03:40
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
When 16 year-old Max Rakus set off to Germany right after his sophomore year of high school ended, he had no idea that the trip would change him fo...
- Added: Dec 16, 2015
- Length: 01:39
Sam hails from Bosnia, but she’s lived in the US for the last 6 years. Sometimes she finds that her two cultures have opposing values. Add to that ...
- Added: Dec 16, 2015
- Length: 02:58
The day you graduate college is suppose full of smiles, family pictures, and a sense of accomplishment. But what happens after that day when you pa...
Bought by CI Dolphin Radio, American Voices, and PRX Remix
- Added: May 31, 2015
- Length: 09:56
- Purchases: 3
Have you ever stuck with something that was difficult because you knew the reward was worth the journey? Follow Robert Franklin’s day as he prepare...
- Added: Jan 21, 2015
- Length: 05:21
