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More and more women are breaking up with the expectation that you need a partner to parent. What’s it like raising kids as a single mother by choice?

Bought by KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., Spokane Public Radio, and RadioStPete Florida


  • Added: May 08, 2024
  • Length: 58:23
  • Purchases: 3
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More and more women are breaking up with the expectation that you need a partner to parent. What’s it like raising kids as a single mother by choice?

  • Added: May 07, 2024
  • Length: 58:23
Caption: Shalvah Lazarus pitching in 2021, Credit: Jen Stillerman
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
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Vibrators have been around since the 19th century. Before they were marketed primarily as sex toys, they were sold as general health devices … and ...

  • Added: Apr 03, 2024
  • Length: 58:23
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Today we share excerpts from “She's Beautiful When She's Angry,” a documentary about the rise of activism around women’s rights in the late 1960s, ...

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, RadioFreePalmer, KMUN, and KBUT Crested Butte, Colo.


  • Added: Mar 19, 2024
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 4
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Egg donation in the U.S. is a multibillion dollar industry designed to provide infertile folks with the eggs they need to conceive. But how do we d...

Bought by KUNM, KRVS, WGUC/ WVXU, Oregon Public Broadcasting, WILL and more


  • Added: Mar 11, 2024
  • Length: 58:23
  • Purchases: 13
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Egg donation in the U.S. is a multibillion dollar industry designed to provide infertile folks with the eggs they need to conceive. But how do we d...

  • Added: Mar 07, 2024
  • Length: 58:23
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In this special broadcast of episodes 5 and 6 of So Far From Care, we return to Marfa for two different stories. This tiny desert town is often ro...

  • Added: Feb 20, 2024
  • Length: 58:30
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In episodes 3 and 4 of So Far From Care, "What We're Capable Of" and "She's Not Here," you’ll hear about what it’s like to live even further out th...

  • Added: Feb 20, 2024
  • Length: 54:30
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There are 1.8 billion monthly menstruators worldwide. Better understanding the science behind period blood, as well as cultural stigma and period p...

  • Added: Feb 01, 2024
  • Length: 58:23
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In this episode, Emily speaks with writer and philosophy professor Chloé Cooper Jones about her memoir Easy Beauty, which chronicles her quest to w...

  • Added: May 30, 2023
  • Length: 53:50
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Actor-turned-otolaryngologist Alessa Colaianni has no problem acting sad—it’s actually feeling sad that’s the problem. In this episode, Alessa tell...

  • Added: May 05, 2023
  • Length: 40:08
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Primary care doctor Tseganesh Selameab brings us inside her practice as a provider for immigrants and refugees, and describes one of the most commo...

  • Added: May 04, 2023
  • Length: 39:02
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OB/GYN Jackie Howitt and pediatrician Gretchen Volk bring us into the deserted airport where they first met in April 2020 on their way to offer COV...

  • Added: May 02, 2023
  • Length: 53:32
Caption: OutCasting youth broadcaster Declan
OutCasting youth broadcaster Declan – a trans guy – talks about experiencing gender from both sides of the fence.

  • Added: Sep 30, 2022
  • Length: 06:46

  • Added: Aug 17, 2022
  • Length: 51:20
  • Purchases: 2
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Joy and tears were both a part of the experience for author Staci Lola Drouillard in writing the 2022 release Seven Aunts published by the Universi...

  • Added: Jul 08, 2022
  • Length: 08:32
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When I moved from Melbourne to Italy I was faced with a difficult decision: take my cat Ombra with me, submitting her to a gruelling 26-hour flight...

  • Added: May 16, 2022
  • Length: 01:17
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A micro narration in a minute or so.

  • Added: May 08, 2022
  • Length: 01:02
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Sometimes an object out of place becomes the only thing in place.

  • Added: Apr 01, 2022
  • Length: 01:00
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Another true story: a group of ladies go out of their way to be charitable with a young mother. A micro narration in a minute or so.

  • Added: Mar 26, 2022
  • Length: 01:00
Caption: Scratch & Sniff Logo, Credit: Walker Raigh
A special Mother’s Day episode where Walker reads a letter she sent to her mom years ago to tell her why her desire to never have children does not...

  • Added: Feb 21, 2022
  • Length: 05:14
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A woman moves into her new student digs and hears something coming from the basement...

  • Added: Feb 14, 2022
  • Length: 10:36
Caption: Avant 03 | Pamela Schwartz
Avant interviews Pamela Schwartz, executive director at the Orange County Regional History Center. She shares her approach to collecting and curati...

  • Added: Jan 25, 2022
  • Length: 27:08
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How do you sleep when so much of life is unsettled? In this episode that comes to us from the award-winning podcast Shelter in Place, we talk abo...

  • Added: Oct 28, 2021
  • Length: 26:15