Embodied is a weekly podcast in which host and creator Anita Rao is on a mission to figure out what happens when we bring taboo topics — from sexual pleasure to vasectomies to body hair — out into the light to examine them with journalistic curiosity.
This entry is a montage of three episodes from 2021: "Accepted: Why Feeling Neutral About Your Body Can Be A Good Thing"; "Disabled: Dating And Sex In The Body You Have"; and "Feminized: Aligning Your Inner And Outer Selves."
Host Anita Rao speaks to two speech language pathologists with personal connections to stuttering: Dr. Derek Daniels breaks down what it was like for him to grow up as a Black, gay man who stutters, and Jia Bin shares why she only recently stopped trying to hide her stutter — and how moving from the U.S. to China offered her the opportunity to shift her perspective on her own speech patterns.
In the Embodied’s July 14 episode “Mixed,” host Anita Rao talks with two biracial college seniors, folks in the midst of establishing their own identities, about navigating everything from "Where do I belong?" to "How do I date?" Plus, she hears wisdom from a life coach who specifically helps mixed race adults heal, find community and tell new stories about their identity.
WUNC received regional recognition for its work in 2022. North Carolina Public Radio was honored with five Green Eyeshade Awards from the Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ) on July 13.
Stuttering occurs in every culture with a spoken language. So why do many communities treat it as a source of shame? Two speech-language pathologists and a comedian help Anita question cultural assumptions about stuttering and explore the growing movement to embrace speech diversity.
Host Anita Rao reconnects with the woman who changed her thinking on incarceration: her college thesis adviser Ashley Lucas. Ashley, a professor of theatre and drama at the University of Michigan, reflects on her father's 20-year prison sentence and the untold stories of families navigating incarceration from the outside.