Host Anita Rao talks with Emma Ward, a songwriter, producer and community manager, about her experience getting facial feminization surgery — a series of procedures that shape brows, cheeks or chins to appear more feminine — to align internal and external appearance.
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.