Audible.com • April 9, 2024

AUDIO: New York's Legal Weed Rollout Gets Complicated

New York has only around 90 legal cannabis shops while an estimated 2,000 stores are believed to be selling marijuana illegally. Eli Northrop, director of the Bronx Cannabis Hub, helps explain why the state's legalization rollout has been complicated from the start.

Audible.com • February 20, 2024

AUDIO: Falling Out of Love with Dating Apps

Match Group, which owns the most popular dating apps like Tinder, Hinge, and OKCupid has seen its stock tumble in the last couple of years as paying members dwindle. After more than a decade of popularity, why are Millennials and Gen Z deciding to stop swiping and delete these apps?

Audible.com • January 9, 2024

AUDIO: Why 2023 Was the Year of the Strike

2023 was a big year for union workers. The Bureau of Labor says that there were more work stoppages involving more than 1,000 workers last year than any other year in the past decade. Why did so many go on strike?

Marketplace • May 11, 2023

AUDIO: The cost of keeping secrets

This season, we’re exploring how secrets shape our financial lives — the secrets we keep and the secrets we want to know.

Brooklyn, USA • December 14, 2022

AUDIO: The Solidarity Economy

New York state is home to more co-ops than anywhere else in the country. To wrap up our series on work and labor, we’re checking in with Brooklynites who are organizing and maintaining worker co-ops, and in the process creating a less exploitative, more equitable workplace, way of life, and world.

AudioFiles • December 9, 2022

AUDIO: Washington Heights’ Migrant Holiday Market

One holiday market in Washington Heights is featuring art by migrants who recently arrived in New York City.

AudioFiles • December 2, 2022

AUDIO: Brooklyn Landmarks LGBTQ History

After nearly 50 years, The Lesbian Herstory Archives in Park Slope has received landmark status from the Landmark Preservation Commission, making it the first of its kind in Brooklyn.

AudioFiles • November 4, 2022

AUDIO: Scents and the City

Lemongrass, tulsi, sage and anise. A group in Washington Heights is growing and giving away herbs to the community in an effort to promote the importance of connecting with nature.

AudioFiles • November 4, 2022

AUDIO: Respite For Deliveristas

Delivery workers zoom around the city bringing to us the food we’ve ordered. That doesn’t leave them with a lot of safe and clean places to rest. New York City officials are now planning to transform vacant news stands across the city into worker hubs where workers can take a break during shifts.

AudioFiles • October 18, 2022

AUDIO: The Rush To Shelter Asylum Seekers

How mutual aid groups and volunteers are helping newly-arrived asylum seekers find shelter in NYC.

Texas Standard • August 30, 2022

LGBTQ Texans fear Supreme Court will target same-sex marriage, leaving them legally unprotected

LGBTQ couples in Texas are setting up wills and power of attorney, as well as considering leaving the state altogether, in order to protect their rights post-Roe.

Texas Standard • August 4, 2022

Beyoncé’s ‘Renaissance’ pays tribute to Black queer roots of house and disco music

“House music and dance music is a very euphoric experience because it is a liberation from so many of the societal stressors that we experience on an everyday basis.”

Texas Standard • July 20, 2022

‘There is hope’: New documentary focuses on survivors of military sexual violence

A new Univision documentary centers on the stories of women soldiers who have been sexually assaulted while serving. #IamVanessaGuillen was inspired by the story of 20-year-old soldier, Vanessa Guillen, who went missing from Fort Hood in April 2020.

Texas Standard • July 14, 2022

Author Andrea Mosqueda on representation for queer youth in the Rio Grande Valley

The San Benito native’s debut YA novel, “Just Your Local Bisexual Disaster,” tackles shame but also has a happy ending.

Texas Standard • July 13, 2022

How Mexican activists are providing Texans with medication abortions

Las Libres, formed in 2001, has seen an increase in calls from people based in the U.S.

Texas Standard • July 11, 2022

UT researchers are gathering data to prevent drug overdoses in Texas

TxCOPE crowdsources its data from harm reduction groups across the state to help track and prevent overdoses.

Texas Standard • July 6, 2022

‘It’s an exhaustion of our humanity’: New report details forced prison labor in Texas

State and local agencies benefit from services and goods produced by people in prison.

New York City News Service • May 31, 2022

The Winding Path to Queer Pregnancy

Molly Foeman and Kayla Rodriguez decided to have a baby earlier this year. After three fertility clinics, over a thousand dollars out-of-pocket for doctor visits and tests, and emotional turmoil, their path to pregnancy hasn’t been straight-forward.

New York City News Service • November 3, 2021

The Fight to Close Rikers

A record number of incarcerated people have died at Rikers this year. Leah Faria is among the activists and elected officials calling on the city to stop sending people there over technical parole violations.