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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: Sep 16, 2024
- Length: 58:23
Up to 20% of the population experiences symptoms of dyslexia, a lifelong neurological disorder that makes it difficult to read fluently. Examining ...
- Added: Sep 12, 2024
- Length: 58:23
Third culture kids spend their formative years trotting the globe, moving between different cultures and countries. Two third culture families shar...
- Added: Sep 11, 2024
- Length: 43:31
About half of all HIV-positive people in long term relationships have HIV-negative partners. This mixed-status life affects everything from sex and...
- Added: Sep 05, 2024
- Length: 58:23
Adrian is here to talk about the origins of Hip-Hop sound and culture. Enjoy!
- Added: Aug 28, 2024
- Length: 02:15
Kissing-like behaviors exist across the animal kingdom. But why? A scientist explains why humans are so drawn to each other's lips, and a photograp...
- Added: Aug 26, 2024
- Length: 58:23
When the time comes to decide whether or not a child will be circumcised … how do parents choose? The answer is not only answered medically but cul...
- Added: Aug 21, 2024
- Length: 58:23
In the past 30 years, the divorce rate for Americans over 55 has doubled. After a decades-long marriage, serving the papers is just one small act b...
- Added: Aug 14, 2024
- Length: 58:23
KXCI’s education team visited Arizona School for the Deaf and Blind. We met some amazing young people and recorded the magic as they shared their m...
- Added: Aug 13, 2024
- Length: 02:22
It’s easy to recognize great erotica when you come across it — the reactions are physical and palpable. Embodied goes behind the scenes to learn ho...
- Added: Aug 08, 2024
- Length: 58:23
Hearing aids are sometimes presented as a silver bullet for communication issues arising from hearing loss. But hard of hearing folks already on th...
- Added: Jul 31, 2024
- Length: 58:23
The majority of mental health professionals in the U.S. are white. Therapists of color are working to expand the diversity of their field and incre...
- Added: Jul 24, 2024
- Length: 58:23
Tens of thousands of Americans each year are voluntarily and involuntarily committed into psychiatric institutes. A memoirist and an organizer shar...
- Added: Jul 17, 2024
- Length: 58:23
Learn how the queer community saved this little California town from ruin after a devastating flood, and how Guerneville became a thriving queer de...
- Added: Jul 09, 2024
- Length: 06:57
An essayist, activist and novelist discuss love, disability and how writing has shifted their relationship with others and themselves.
Bought by KALW and Boise State Public Radio
- Added: Jul 09, 2024
- Length: 58:23
- Purchases: 2
An essayist, activist and novelist discuss love, disability and how writing has shifted their relationship with others and themselves.
- Added: Jul 09, 2024
- Length: 58:23
Two moms of children with undiagnosed behavioral differences discuss the way everyone, from professionals to teachers to other parents, blamed thei...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Jul 04, 2024
- Length: 14:34
- Purchases: 1
Tens of thousands of nail salons across the U.S. are places of connection, reinvention, and community. They also make up a multi-billion dollar ind...
- Added: Jul 02, 2024
- Length: 58:23
Nearly one in five people seeking abortion care must cross state lines to get it. Here’s what it takes to get those folks to their appointments and...
- Added: Jun 26, 2024
- Length: 58:23
Max Du was so obsessed with whales that his childhood friends called him Orca Boy. But when a SeaWorld trainer named Dawn was killed by an orca, hi...
- Added: Jun 23, 2024
- Length: 28:56
The vast majority of people living with dementia receive essential care from their own family and friends. Two caregivers share their experiences s...
- Added: Jun 20, 2024
- Length: 58:23
About half of all infertility cases involve male fertility issues. Yet reproductive spaces are often dominated by women — and the male perspective ...
- Added: Jun 11, 2024
- Length: 58:23
Puberty is a rite of passage that most of us experience as teenagers. But for some trans folks, big hormonal changes happen again in adulthood.
- Added: Jun 06, 2024
- Length: 58:23
Puberty is a rite of passage that most of us experience as teenagers. But for some trans folks, big hormonal changes happen again in adulthood.
- Added: Jun 06, 2024
- Length: 58:23
Building intimate friendships can be difficult, especially for men and masculine-of-center people. Guest host Omisade Burney-Scott talks to four Bl...
- Added: May 29, 2024
- Length: 58:23