[“Wrong Number” by The Gays plays] RICHARD: Hello and welcome back to Me/Us/U, a podcast made by me, well us, about us for you. KAY: Today we would like to tell you a story about gender, sexuality, and all of the queer little things that pop up in our community. MIRA: From the early modern history of queer culture… CESCA: To the future that many queer students face, RICHARD: We…
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Stories That Changed Us
[positive upbeat music plays in background] SARAH FRENCH: Hello, and welcome to the Stories that Change Us, a Me/Us/sU production. I’m Sarah French. MITCH ROSHANNON: I’m Mitch Roshannon. AYLA NYRIESE: and I’m Ayla Nyriese. SARAH F: Today we’ll be exploring just a few of the ways that stories impact our lives. So if you’re interested in how stories become books and how diversity works in publishing, MITCH: The wonders of narrative gaming and the dangers…
Audio Bio: Sarah French
SOUND: MELODIC PIANO MUSIC BEGINS AND REMAINS IN THE BACKGROUND SARAH There is a futility to redacting everything I have ever read into one representative title. It’s almost laughable, the breadth and depth of things I have read. But, invariably, once someone finds out I’m an editor I get the question. “What’s your favorite book?” Either that or “Will you look at my manuscript?” I’m not sure which is worse….
Audio Bio: Megan Shaffer
(OMINOUS SOUND) Welcome to Megan’s Medical Morge. Hello, my name is Megan Shaffer and I’m 5’11. That is usually not relevant, but it is for my life because I am the clumsiest person in the world (CARTOON SLIPS) but also someone who used to try to avoid attention, and being this tall, it was impossible to hide in a crowd of people. The higher my face off the ground (CARTOON FALLING), the more air I could fall through to fall on…
Audio Bio: Nikki Anderson
“Hi Sweetheart, it’s just Grandma here. You enjoy your new adventure in Pennsylvania, I’m sure you’re gonna love Susquehanna U. And knowing you, you’re gonna have one heck of a terrific time there getting a great education and everything you love and enjoy. Good luck sweetheart, I love you and I’m thinking bout you all the time.” Audio of You Better Don’t by Apache Tomcat fades up after voicemail starts, plays throughout as ambience for first half “When I…