The return of the U.S.'s oldest drag king
For decades now, drag queens have captured the national imagination. Drag kings, on the other hand, have been relegated to a less prominent position in pop culture. But today on the show, we're tellin...
24 Jul 202431min
Honoring my enslaved ancestors: Episode 2
Every summer B.A. Parker returns to Creswell, North Carolina, where her family still has a farm. But she's mostly avoided actually going to the nearby site where her ancestors were enslaved. This week...
17 Jul 202434min
Honoring my enslaved ancestors: Episode 1
In part one of two episodes, B.A. Parker meets people who, like her, are grappling with how to honor their enslaved ancestors. She asks herself: what kind of descendant does she want to be?See pcm.ads...
10 Jul 202434min
How one event in history can ripple through generations of a family
This week we're bringing you the first episode in a new series called Inheriting, created in collaboration with our friends at LAist Studios. In each episode, NPR's Emily Kwong sits down with Asian Am...
3 Jul 202445min
The truth and lies behind one of the most banned books in America
Author Mike Curato wrote Flamer as a way to help young queer kids, like he once was, better understand and accept themselves. It was met with immediate praise and accolades — until it wasn't. When the...
26 Jun 202431min
Some freed people actually received '40 acres and a mule.' Then it got taken away.
The promise of "40 acres and a mule", is often thought of as a broken one. But it turns out, some freed people actually received land as reparations after the Civil War. And what happened to that land...
24 Jun 202450min
The history of trans misogyny is the history of segregation
As anti-trans legislation has ramped up, historian Jules Gill-Peterson turns the lens to the past in her book, A Short History of Trans Misogyny. This week, we talk about how panics around trans femin...
19 Jun 202436min
Should we stop using the word "felon"?
This week, we're turning our sights on the word "felon", and looking into what it tells us (and can't tell us) about the 19 million people in the U.S. — like Donald Trump and Hunter Biden — carrying t...
12 Jun 202433min
