#NPR One

[thelifeelsewhere]

Black Women’s Empowerment

Drawn from research conducted over the course of a decade, education scholar Rachelle Winkle Wagner elevates in The Chosen We : Black Women’s Empowerment In Higher Education the experiences and oral histories of 105 accomplished, college-educated Black women who graduated between 1954 and 2014. Her findings demonstrate that maintaining connection and community among themselves – A Chosen We – has…

[specialagentartemis]

Statement going forward: I will continue my tumblr policy of only posting/reblogging news about the current administration and all the bad things going on in the world if it is time-sensitive information, debunking misinformation, or contains actionable ways to help. I will not reblog awful news just to goggle at the horror of it. I will not spread things I have not read or checked. Time-sensitive information, debunking misinformation, or actionable ways to help. And they will always be tagged with “US politics” or “current events”. That’s it.

[npr-stan]

White House orders NIH to research trans 'regret' and 'detransition' : Shots - Health News https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2025/04/10/nx-s1-5355126/trump-nih-trans-regret-detransition-research

[pronouncingitwang]

Rules: List 15 bands/artists and name just (1) song of theirs that you love.

tagged by @canonicallyanxious 3 whopping months ago... hi sarah ily! listening to your playlist as i'm writing this

picking my 15 favorite artists was too hard so instead i'm just listing artists i like whose music i've seen performed live (not necessarily by them), loosely ordered by how much i heart them. i picked either the song that got me into them or the one i think is My Actual Favorite. i can't contribute a spreadsheet but i'm adding my favorite lyric moment from each also

Mitski: Bag of Bones (And I hope you leave right before the sun comes up / So I can watch it alone)

Will Wood: ...well, better than the alternative (And when we find out what’s wrong with me / Could you tell me how, could you tell me how and if I’m still pretty?)

Lucy Dacus: Strange Torpedo (And I'm more surprised every time you're alive / When I check for your breath in the morning)

MIKA: Lola (People always make me crazy / Love me lots, don’t love me maybe / What’s the point of singing silly love songs?)

Lady Lamb: You Are the Apple (I still need your teeth 'round my organs / I still need your teeth 'round my organs)

Dave Malloy: Natalya from Preludes (Your dark unknowable depression / Your fantastic spiraling black void / Isn't it pathetic? / Isn't it a choice?)

Sufjan Stevens: Come On! Feel the Illinoise! (Part I: The World's Columbian Exposition / Part II: Carl Sandburg Visits Me in a Dream) (Even in his heart, the Devil has to know the water level / Are you writing from the heart? / Are you writing from the heart?)

Kishi Bashi: Bright Whites (Cufflinks and hands in wrong places and faces / And creepy little movies made me weep, made me weep, made me weep)

Samia: Charm You (Couldn't we believe it was the hand of God / Making water boogie to a Kesha song)

Daisy the Great: The Record Player Song (Sometimes, I think all I'm ever doing is / trying to convince myself I'm alive)

The Magnetic Fields: Andrew in Drag (A pity she does not exist, a shame he's not a fag / The only girl I ever loved was Andrew in drag)

Anais Mitchell: Of a Friday Night (I'll be a good time gambler / I'll be a restless wife / I'll be a midnight writer / Out in the quarter on a Friday night)

Orla Gartland: More Like You (I heard it from a woman on the internet / She told me to eat well and try to love myself)

Remi Wolf: Liz (Troubling, troubling, troubling calls / Catch me vaping orange juice outside of the mall)

The Happy Fits: So Alright, Cool, Whatever (I wanna be with you, I wanna be with you / I wanna be barely hanging on!)

too eepy to tag people, but if you're seeing this, have at it, and i will listen to at least the first five songs i prommy unless you don't want me to

[khealywu]

mister rogers was asked early in his career why he didn’t make his show explicitly christian given his strong faith and he was VEHEMENT that mister roger’s neighborhood never be christian or appear to be because it was vitally important that every child watching would feel accepted and understood by the show, regardless of who they were

and yeah that makes me sob every time i think of it

[thelifeelsewhere]

Two Important Books On American Women’s Lives

[bendover-productions]

have to say the worst part about me getting into jet lag is that i’m genuinely considering getting a nebula subscription and it’s not even for like. a normal reason.

[sotart]

[wildgreyocean]

how do we make sure sam fender plays a tiny desk concert when he goes to the us?

[npr-stan]

‘Lab Leak,’ a flashy page on the virus’ origins, replaces government COVID sites : Shots - Health News https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2025/04/18/g-s1-61324/lab-leak-white-house-covid-origins

[bereft-of-frogs]

Listening to the actual news every morning really inures you to the ‘why isn’t anyone talking about this’ online discount because what do you mean no one’s talking about Syria/the UHC shooting/the drones in NJ those have been the top stories all week.

The only downside is I used to hate when my mom had NPR on in the car and now I’ve 100% become that person, this is like the HGTV/cooking network revelation all over again, I totally get it, I too would sit for an extra couple minutes outside the grocery store until I finished listening to that segment about the origins of the word ‘pecan’.

[writing-with-olive]

Back in November, NPR put out a 3-part podcast as part of their embedded series called All The Only Ones that looked at the history of trans youth in America over the past hundred years and connect it back to stories of trans teens today to show not only the depth of experience but also how it's not new or "just a trend," and it is SPECTACULAR. It's genuinely really well put together and handled amazingly. Seriously if you can, go listen to it

(links go to both audio and transcript)

Series Intro: https://www.npr.org/transcripts/1208317459 Episode 1: https://www.npr.org/transcripts/1200150159 Episode 2: https://www.npr.org/transcripts/1200150161 Episode 3: https://www.npr.org/transcripts/1200150163

[easeupkid]

i feel like i haven’t seen anyone talking about it aside from a couple of news outlets but icymi: usps is shipping free at home covid tests again. you can get four test mailed to your household for FREE. order them here and don’t be caught without a test when you need one

additionally, the expiration date for some at home covid tests has been extended since some manufacturers have proven that their tests are accurate for longer than was known when the test was originally manufactured. you can see if your at home test has an extended expiration date at the previous link.

[hello-delicious-tea]

tl;dr - they're saying that PBS and NPR have real proper commercials so that they can stop providing any funding for any public broadcasting service. They are explicit that that is the end goal and that the commercial thing is their potential way to make that happen.

[tparadox]

When I got annoyed enough to pay for Fable and Folly Plus (turns out I was already following like 80% of their current shows that aren't Actual Play so it's a good deal) that came with Midnight Burger advance episodes.

I think most shows that do advance access are either a day ahead, a week ahead, or "you get it as soon as it's done" ahead. MB does a month in advance. I thought I would hold on to them and listen as the regular feed would get them, and that lasted about a week and a half.

But it's kind of awkward trying to lurk and maybe participate in the tag here when I'm an episode ahead of most people.