The Wind Podcast
1) They/Them
How gender neutral language is working for non-binary people, and how it’s developing in English, Tagalog, Vietnamese, Portuguese and Hebrew.
2) Year 5 • Epilogue
Year 5 comes to a close.
3) The Wind
In the finale of Year 5 of The Wind, something a bit different. This episode was recorded live at my desk, and is a self-titled sort of thesis.
4) Those Who Feast with the Mountain Lion | Thacker Pass Lithium Mine
Lithium Americas v. Dean Barlese et. al.. The story of a lithium mine in remote northern Nevada, and the two-spirit Paiute elder who fought to stop it.
5) The Eviction Puppet Show of Silver Lake, Los Angeles
The sun sets over Sunset Boulevard; the palm trees silhouette. In the front garden of a big house off the main drag, the puppet show begins.
6) Organist Edward Torres at the Bob Baker Marionette Theater
Up the freeway a few miles from Downtown Los Angeles, the streetlights flicker on and I approach the warm glow of the Bob Baker Marionette Theater. Inside, I meet organist Edward Torres.
7) Henry Real Bird at the National Cowboy Poetry Gathering
Off the train in Elko, Nevada we meet cowboy poet Henry Real Bird, former Montana Poet Laureate, teacher and bronc rider from the banks of the Little Bighorn. // The National Cowboy Poetry Gathering s...Show More
8) Echo from Deep Valley with Ho Lan
A song bounces from slope to slope, emerging from the valley as an echo. Just of out earshot from Spokane Falls we meet star Taiwanese yodeler, Ho Lan.
9) Jazmine (JT) Green in Brooklyn, New York
The word “transit” comes from the Latin “transitus”, meaning to pass across or through. Off the subway in Brooklyn, down the stairs into the busy green room of On Air Fest, we meet Jazmine (JT) Green....Show More
10) Alash Ensemble in Winnemucca, Nevada
From the backroom of a Basque hotel in the Great Basin, Tuvan throat singing flows out through the bar, over the train tracks, and into the vast sagebrush steppes.