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032: Undertaken: The Next Generation Of Funeral Directors, 4/19/2024
From: Embodied
Series: Embodied
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As the workforce of funeral directors ages, young folks are stepping up to lead and change the death care industry.

  • Added: Apr 17, 2024
  • Length: 58:23
031: Being and having an only child: separating truth from stereotype, 4/12/2024
From: Embodied
Series: Embodied
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Assumptions about narcissism, loneliness and selfishness in only children are largely that: assumptions. But there are experiences unique to being ...

  • Added: Apr 08, 2024
  • Length: 58:23
0029: ‘We kept choosing each other, every single day’: coming out as trans in a romantic relationship, 3/29/2024
From: Embodied
Series: Embodied
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A gender transition means a lot of changes in a person's life — and a lot of changes for their romantic partner. Two couples share their experience...

  • Added: Mar 25, 2024
  • Length: 58:23
Transitioned [A Transgender Day Of Visibility Special]: Coming Out As Trans In A Romantic Relationship
From: Embodied
Series: Embodied - Specials
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March 31st marks the 15th annual International Transgender Day of Visibility. TDOV uplifts the contributions of trans folks in the Queer Rights Mov...

Bought by WWNO, WRKF, and RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Mar 25, 2024
  • Length: 58:23
  • Purchases: 3
Retrieved [A Women's History Month Special]: Egg Donors Share Their Stories
From: Embodied
Series: Embodied - Specials
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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 KRVS, WGUC/ WVXU, Oregon Public Broadcasting, WILL, KGOU and more


  • Added: Mar 11, 2024
  • Length: 58:23
  • Purchases: 12
[Simulated Part Three] Building an AI afterlife: an exploration of new grief technology
From: Embodied
Series: Embodied - Specials
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If you could speak again with a loved one who has passed away, would you? With recent advances in artificially intelligent grief tech, this questio...

Bought by KWGS


  • Added: Feb 22, 2024
  • Length: 58:23
  • Purchases: 1
024: [Simulated Part Three] Building an AI afterlife: an exploration of new grief technology, 2/23/2024
From: Embodied
Series: Embodied
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If you could speak again with a loved one who has passed away, would you? With recent advances in artificially intelligent grief tech, this questio...

  • Added: Feb 22, 2024
  • Length: 58:23
014: Living with adult acne in the era of ‘perfect skin’, 12/15/2023
From: Embodied
Series: Embodied
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In this digital age of flawless, perfect, poreless skin, dealing with adult acne can be incredibly isolating. Two skinfluencers and a photographer ...

  • Added: Dec 14, 2023
  • Length: 58:23
Citizens of the world: growing up as a third culture kid
From: Embodied
Series: Embodied - Specials
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Third culture kids spend their formative years trotting the globe, moving between different cultures and countries. Two third culture families shar...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio and Boise State Public Radio


  • Added: Nov 21, 2023
  • Length: 58:23
  • Purchases: 2
Experiencing gender from both sides
From: Media for the Public Good, Inc. - OutCasting Media
Series: OutCasting Overtime
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
Ol’ Jack Keroac
From: KXCI
Series: Growing Native with Petey Mesquitey
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Some personal history in poem and song. The photos are mine…well, I dug them out of the archives. That’s the very beginning of the Dusty Chaps in 1...

  • Added: May 04, 2022
  • Length: 04:17
Straight teenager embraces equality
From: Media for the Public Good, Inc. - OutCasting Media
Series: OutCasting Overtime
Caption: OutCasting youth broadcaster Tomás
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
July 2021 – HIV at 40
From: Media for the Public Good, Inc. - OutCasting Media
Series: OutCasting Overtime
Caption: OutCaster Lil
What's lost when kids don't learn about the homophobic context in which the pandemic unfolded?

  • Added: Jun 30, 2021
  • Length: 08:37
April 2021 – Bullied gay seventh grader
From: Media for the Public Good, Inc. - OutCasting Media
Series: OutCasting Overtime
Caption: OutCasting youth participant Justin
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
The Big Ponder #8: My Pen Pal
From: Goethe-Institut
Series: The Big Ponder – A Transatlantic Podcast
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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
February 2021 -- A cisgender teenager explores different ways of expressing his gender
From: Media for the Public Good, Inc. - OutCasting Media
Series: OutCasting Overtime
Caption: OutCaster Justin
Does that make him "a little bit" transgender?

Bought by KZMU Moab Community Radio


  • Added: Jan 29, 2021
  • Length: 03:58
  • Purchases: 1
December 2020 – LGBTQ candidates, LGBTQ youth
From: Media for the Public Good, Inc. - OutCasting Media
Series: OutCasting Overtime
Caption: OutCaster Justin
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
Curve By Curve
From: Marie Bongiovanni
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Personal narrative describing a way to cope with uncertainty during the pandemic, and a reassessment of safety and risk following the largest earth...

  • Added: Sep 19, 2020
  • Length: 05:33
Camino de Corona
From: Israel Story
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For her fiftieth birthday this year, Danna Harman planned to embark on a spiritual pilgrimage along the Camino de Santiago and hopefully hit on a d...

  • Added: Aug 05, 2020
  • Length: 15:50
Sampler for A SUDDEN LOSS - Memorial Day Tribute to Those Lost to COVID-19
From: Paul Ingles
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NOT FOR BROADCAST: On this page is a programmers' audition sample of the program A SUDDEN LOSS which will be released for download on Wednesday, M...

Bought by Boise State Public Radio, KSJE, 90.5 WESA, WHRV, KWGS and more


  • Added: May 18, 2020
  • Length: 15:13
  • Purchases: 8
May 2020 - Voice dysphoria experienced by trans people
From: Media for the Public Good, Inc. - OutCasting Media
Series: OutCasting Overtime
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Trans youth describes her discomfort with her own voice.

  • Added: Apr 30, 2020
  • Length: 04:49
Why there are Bats
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: The Apple Seed
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A collection of entertaining stories, including stories about bats.

Bought by KTXK


  • Added: Jan 22, 2020
  • Length: 56:19
  • Purchases: 1
Whose Memento Is It?
From: Lori Mortimer
Series: Mementos
Caption: The memento that spawned a podcast, Credit: Steve Nelson
Mementos Podcast pilot: How did an old dusty box in the back of a garage spawn a burst of grief, a period of reflection about a mother and daughter...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Dec 29, 2019
  • Length: 12:06
  • Purchases: 1
Zombie Therapy
From: Eric Molinsky
Series: Imaginary Worlds
Caption: Dr. Steven Schlozman, zombified, Credit: Eric Molinsky
Zombies. I hate them the way Indiana Jones hates snakes. As part of my series Imaginary Worlds, I confront my biggest phobia with the help of a zom...

Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, WABE, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Dec 27, 2019
  • Length: 16:54
  • Purchases: 3
The Pride of a Hat
From: Jason Kladiva
Series: World Pieces
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National Park Rangers Karl Rand and Russ Taylor share their views on the most distinctive part of their uniform.

  • Added: Jul 09, 2019
  • Length: 05:10