RadioActive Youth Media
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Stepping Outside Of The Box, And Onto The Stage
We throw toast at the Rocky Horror Picture Show, hear what people on the street think about the movement for LGBTQ rights, and learn about the fight to...
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A Burned Baby: The Night That Changed Sister Kurien's Mission
Gaus Said was 6 and working as a mechanic in India when a social worker spotted him and connected him with Sister Lucy Kurien.
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Tavi-In-Chief: 'You Can Be A Feminist And Also Like Stuff'
There are a lot of stereotypical images of teenage girls: vain, ditzy, obsessed with pop music. Tavi Gevinson makes it her job to break these...
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Alone And Pregnant In A Foreign Country
Being a mother isn't easy, and it's even harder when you're both single and an immigrant. But that didn't stop Maria Perez. RadioActive youth producer Estefania Chirino Perez tells the story of her mother's struggle, and what kept her from giving up.
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Deep Dark Secrets Of The (Orchestra) Pit
Tuning her violin for a performance, Maeve McIver-Sheridan knows that she's preparing for a forgotten and thankless task. "You get to the end of a show and no one acknowledges us," McIver-Sheridan said, "unless my parents are there."
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Teacher Finds "Deep-Rooted, Soul-Bearing" Joy In His Work
On the first day of world history class this year at Foster High School, students filed into Andy Giron’s classroom to find someone unexpected: a relatively young teacher compared to the rest of the faculty, playing music, dancing and dropping beats. His inviting smile radiated excitement.
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Why Ridwan, 16, Pretended He Was Allergic to Pork
"I walked up to them and they were playing basketball, doing their normal stuff like we usually do. And I told them that I wanted to talk to them."
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Peace At Foster High, Where Students Once Couldn’t ‘Let Go Of The War’
David Montoya graduated from Foster High School in Tukwila, Wash., in 1989. The school was once surrounded by farms and orchards, and Montoya estimated...
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A Cheez-It Feast, And Other Reasons To Be Thankful
RadioActive's Yafiet Bezabih and Maddie Ewbank challenge our chef-in-residence Sarah Rosenthal to make a Thanksgiving meal out of mac and cheese, Oreos,...
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Welcome KUOW's Fall 2013 RadioActive Youth Producers
KUOW's RadioActive Youth Media is proud to offer a fall journalism workshop in West Seattle, in partnership with Neighborhood House - High Point, a center for anti-poverty community services. Six students, age 16-19, will spend ten weeks learning what it means to be a journalist. During that time, they will pitch, interview, edit and write their own feature stories for KUOW.org.