The Podcasters: Recent Episodes
The Podcasters
A multilingual podcasting collective making space for students to share and discuss sociopolitical issues impacting their daily lives.
Hudson Valley//Milwaukee//Maui https://www.thepodcasters.org
Listen to our students talk about languages in different schools and compare their effects on education.
Listen to our students talk about the language used throughout their schooling experience and how it affected their learning and social lives within the realm of academia.
In this episode we follow Joey Lin, Reshan Selva, Kayla Walthall, and Yuchen Wang as they go down their academic memory lanes and discuss their schooling experiences from primary through secondary education within their respective home states.
In both Spanish and English, students read poetry and collaboratively reflect on their feelings about the work and the writing's impact.
In this episode, the group discusses their experience with Social Media. They talk through the beginning of their social media journey, expectations of social media, the pressures, and the effects.
In this episode, the group discusses the importance of being grateful in anticipation of the upcoming school year. They share their hopes, dreams, stressors, and advice about what they expect about the new academic year.
In this episode, the group discusses the complexity of what it means to come of age. Specifically, they reflect on childhood stories and the nostalgia of growing up.
In this episode, the group discusses the faults in the educational system and topics they wish were taught in school. Specifically, they address the importance of having access to mental health resources and financial literacy classes.
The group considers their futures after high school—specifically, how they feel ready, and how they still don't. "I just hope that what I choose to do, I'll be happy with, and I won't look back and regret it."
Lluvia Feminina considers the consequences of hyperproductive, unsustainable lifestyle trends popularized on TikTok, best represented by the "That Girl" trend. Do these lifestyles provide motivation? At what point does the high bar that these trends set become demotivating? How do we move forward with the consequences?
In their first episode, Lluvia Feminina, a group of young Latinas, discuss what they learned about themselves and their identities while living in isolation during the COVID-19 pandemic. Just like many others, they've found that change has been a constant, but that the consequence of this change—positive or negative—has been a wildly unresolved question.
Students from Lokelani Intermediate School discuss their time dealing with the difficulties (and the few bright spots) of a yearlong pandemic in both their personal and academic lives.
Members of the Rohingya community in Milwaukee, Wisconsin introduce themselves and discuss everything from the Rohingya refugee crisis, to their language, to their educational aspirations for the future.
Students from Lokelani Intermediate School (named for a "divine rose") discuss the significance behind their names and dive into the passions that they've found at school.
In their debut episode, a group of students in Maui introduce us to their community and the parts of it—big and small—that make it so unique. From Julia's famous banana bread to a notoriously precarious cliffside drive, they offer an intimate glimpse into what has made their Hawaiian upbringings so very special.
En este episodio, hablamos sobre las elecciones de 2020 antes y después del día de las elecciones. / In this episode, we talk about the 2020 elections before and after Election Day.
In this episode, students talk about the reports of forced hysterectomies in ICE detention centers, as well as the meanings of the words "feminism" and "machismo." TW: forced sterilizations. This episode is in Spanish and English.
En este episodio, los estudiantes hablan de las familias y los amigos, y piensan en las maneras en que la pandemia ha afectado sus relaciones. Este episodio es en español.
In this episode, bilingual students in the Poughkeepsie school district discuss the Black Lives Matter movement & protests, as well as their own relationships to police and experiences with racism. This episode is in English.
Bilingual students from the Hudson Valley discuss immigration, Trump, and the news media’s coverage of human rights violations on the border. This episode is in Spanish and English
In this episode, students talk about their roles as bilingual members of their families, schools, and communities, including how they've helped peers learn English and what it feels like to move to a country where you don't yet speak the language. This episode is in Spanish and English. / En este episodio, los estudiantes hablan de sus papeles como miembros bilingües de las familias, escuelas, y comunidades, incluso las maneras en que han ayudado a sus peras en aprender inglés y como siente mudarse a un país donde no hablan el idioma.