“I am happier now without my voice than I've ever been with my voice.”
René Foreman, who survived cancer of the esophagus, tells her daughter Michelle about speaking through an electrolarynx. Read more…
Recorded in Los Angeles, CA.
Category: Identity
“At my house, only one person got the mail, and that was my mother.”
Nathan Hoskins tells his friend Sally Evans how his family first learned that he was gay. Read more…
Recorded in Lexington, KY.
“Does it bother you to think of home?”
Sarah Littman interviews her son, Joshua, who has Asperger's syndrome, about his first semester at college. Read more…
Recorded in New York, NY.
Kendall Bailey (R) talks to his friend Don Davis (L) about his dismissal from the U.S. Marines under the "Don't Ask Don't Tell" policy.
To see a photo of Kendall Bailey as a Marine, click here.
Recorded in Norfolk, VA.
“They called it slums but it was never a slum to me.”
Carol Jacques remembers growing up in Chavez Ravine, a Mexican-American neighborhood in Los Angeles that was replaced by Dodger Stadium.
Recorded in partnership with KPCC in East Los Angeles, CA..
“I never have found another neighborhood like that one.”
Alfred Zepeda (L) talks to his friend Albert Elias (R) about their childhood in Chavez Ravine, a Mexican-American neighborhood in Los Angeles that was replaced by Dodger Stadium.
Recorded in Montebello, CA.
“There was this hole that I had all of my life.”
MJ Seide talks to her granddaughter Genna Alperin about falling in love with her partner, Genna's biological grandmother.
Recorded in partnership with WHRO Norfolk, VA.
