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#10 – BONUS EPISODE: ART CLASS MATTERS!
When Students at the Bronx High School for the Visual Arts looked around their school, they had a bad case of the “blahs.” It was an art school without art, they said. They dreamed of making change but felt powerless and stuck until an idea long hindered began to bloom. In this episode, they discuss…
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#9 – BONUS EPISODE: “DON’T SAY GAY?”
“Don’t Say Gay?” We don’t think so! In response to Florida’s new legislation banning classroom discussions of LGBTQ+ issues and lives, students from PRISM, Aviation High School’s Gender and Sexuality Alliance, spoke to Brandon Wolf and Pat Padilla from Equality Florida about the fight against this controversial bill. Learn more in this special feature interview…
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Podcast Episode #8: Luck of the Draw
Episode 8 of the Houses on the Moon Podcast spotlights another true tale from gUN COUNTRY, our storytelling workshops with people whose lives have been touched by guns. In “Luck of the Draw” Antonius Wiriadjaja recounts how art and storytelling helped him survive a shooting and how he was forever changed by the love and…
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Podcast Episode #7: Por Vs Para; Missives From the Wormhole
On this episode, we share true tales from Houses on the Moon’s international LGBTQ+ story-sharing project The “Q Story Stream.” We have 2 stories about teachers learning very different lessons. When our own Jeffrey Solomon tries to help a bullied student in the drama class he teaches on Staten Island, the adult discovers you never…
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Podcast Episode #6: Zudaydah with a Backwards Z
On Episode 6 of the Houses on the Moon Podcast, we share Zudaydah Rivera’s true tale from Houses on the Moon’s SHARED SENTENCES, a storytelling project with people who have incarcerated loved ones. Zudaydah was just 4 years old when she first visited her father in a maximum security prison. In her story, “Zudaydah with…
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Podcast Episode #5: Certificate of Fluency
On this episode of the Houses on the Moon Podcast, we spotlight another true tale from our cross-cultural LGBTQ story-sharing project, “Q Story Stream.” In “Certificate of Fluency,” Cori Bratby-Rudd describes the realization of her lifelong dream to study in a foreign exchange program, and the fear of judgement from her host family over her…