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Homegoings

"Homegoings" is a show that invites listeners to be a fly on the wall, privy to candid and genuine conversations about race. Host and musician Myra Flynn explores themes that fearlessly straddle that line between necessary and uncomfortable, as she speaks with artists, experts and regular folks all over the country about their literal skin in the game — of everyday life. "Homegoings" is storytelling — with a heartbeat. No topic is off the table, and there’s no such thing as going “too deep.” These

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00:50:42

Stories from the spotlight: Surviving the music...

Homegoings ·

2024/06/13

***A heads up: This episode contains strong language and unbleeped swearing as well as discussions of sexual abuse*** Fame, or the idea of it, is deeply woven into our society. It’s currency — people knowing you, knowing your name, knowing your art — can be priceless for an artist. Something to spend your whole life seeking. But fame also comes at a cost, and for young women of color in the music industry, and those costs have names. They are: financial devastation, mental health challenges,

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00:47:59

Homegoings live: One night in February

Homegoings ·

2024/05/30

Earlier this year, we hosted a special night at the Chandler Center for the Arts in Randolph, Vermont. Five of the artists featured in our podcast took to the stage for a magical evening of poetry, music, dance and comedy. On this episode of Homegoings, we’ll hear highlights from that one night in February. Homegoings is a production of Vermont Public. Follow season 2 here. This episode was mixed by our associate producer, James Stewart, and was edited by Myra Flynn, who also composed the

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00:32:08

Finding my voice: A conversation with Tracy ‘The...

Homegoings ·

2024/05/16

***A heads up: This episode contains strong language and unbleeped swearing*** Tracy “The D.O.C.” Curry is the OG of hip-hop, one of the originators of the genre itself. In 1989, a horrible car accident damaged his vocal cords at the height of his career. On this episode of Homegoings, Tracy shares how he found his voice and his purpose again on the other side of tragedy. Homegoings is a production of Vermont Public. Follow season 2 here. This episode was reported and mixed by Myra Flynn,

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00:53:34

Never at home: The biracial conundrum

Homegoings ·

2024/05/02

“How do people who identify as Black but have a white parent identify with that part of them? What are the complicated issues, if any? How do you manage day to day?” These are the questions posed by listener Janice Solek-Tefft that we’ll seek to answer in this episode of Homegoings. Myra Flynn shares her own experiences and speaks with three other biracial individuals as they discuss what it’s like to hold two of the world’s most opposing races in one body.

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00:47:54

Aging in full color

Homegoings ·

2024/04/18

***A heads up: This episode contains strong language and unbleeped swearing*** Forget about aging in place, how about aging in paradise? For the launch of season two, Homegoings goes out of the country, to Mexico, for a conversation with Angel Clouthier and her grandmother Jean, a duo who are defining elder care in their own creative and colorful way.

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00:03:56

Homegoings: Digital Postcard - 2024

Homegoings ·

2024/02/23

Homegoings is a show that invites listeners to be a fly on the wall, privy to candid and genuine conversations about race. Host and musician Myra Flynn explores themes that fearlessly straddle that line between necessary and uncomfortable, as she speaks with artists, experts and regular folks all over the country about their literal skin in the game — of everyday life. Homegoings is storytelling — with a heartbeat. No topic is off the table, and there’s no such thing as going “too deep.” These are

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00:35:54

eRACEing Race: A conversation with Rachel Dolezal...

Homegoings ·

2024/01/12

Rachel Anne Dolezal became infamous when, in 2015, while deep in her work as an activist for Black and civil rights, a local TV news crew interviewed her and asked: “Are you African American?” Rachel froze. Turned from the camera and walked away. At the same time, Rachel's parents, Larry and Ruth Dolezal, outed Rachel as being born biologically white. While Rachel acknowledged this was true, she doubled down on her chosen identity, which she describes “racially as human and culturally as Black.” In

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00:36:08

eRACEing Race: A conversation with Rachel Dolezal...

Homegoings ·

2024/01/12

Rachel Anne Dolezal became infamous when, in 2015, while deep in her work as an activist for Black and civil rights, a local TV news crew interviewed her and asked: “Are you African American?” Rachel froze. Turned from the camera and walked away. At the same time, Rachel's parents, Larry and Ruth Dolezal, outed Rachel as being born biologically white. While Rachel acknowledged this was true, she doubled down on her chosen identity, which she describes “racially as human and culturally as Black.” In

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00:31:18

'How will this be for my daughter?'

Homegoings ·

2023/12/28

Sweeney Grabin wants to know how to maintain her family’s Indian and Jewish cultures for her 2-year-old daughter, Maya, while living in Vermont, a predominantly white state. This episode originally appeared on Vermont Public’s show Brave Little State – and now we’re sharing it here with you. Homegoings is a production of Vermont Public. Follow season 1 here. This episode was reported and mixed by Myra Flynn, James Stewart and Josh Crane. The Brave Little State team is Burgess Brown, Sabine

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00:56:34

The relief in grief

Homegoings ·

2023/12/14

***A heads up: This episode contains real conversations about suicide..*** Grief. It’s a word with certain acceptable adjectives attached. Words like: layered and complicated, hard and complex. Sad. But there are other words some might feel too scared to admit belong in the conversation describing grief. Words like: liberation, ease and even relief. In this episode, we speak with three Latina women in southern California who have lost someone recently. In a lot of ways, these stories are about the

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00:39:05

Classical Music: Who's allowed in?

Homegoings ·

2023/11/30

Powdered wigs, white men, aristocracy — these are just a handful of images and stereotypes historically associated with the world of classical music. But what if we’re wrong? In this episode, guest hosts James Stewart and Adiah Gholston talk with teenagers, composers and professors to unpack some of our assumptions around classical music: Where its roots really lie, who it’s made for, and where it’s headed. Homegoings is a production of Vermont Public. Follow season 1 here. This episode was

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00:44:12

What's so funny?

Homegoings ·

2023/11/09

***A heads up: This episode is gonna get real. There will be some unbleeped swearing, and conversations about mental health issues and suicide..*** Ash Diggs is funny. So funny in fact that one of his jobs is to make people laugh. He’s a stand-up comedian who grew up in the South, moved to Queens, New York in 2021 but hails from Vermont. We speak with Ash about the relationship between comedy, addiction and depression, and how art can be both an enabler and a healer. Homegoings is a

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00:50:04

That soft strength: A conversation with Audra McDonald

Homegoings ·

2023/10/26

Audra McDonald, singer, broadway and television star — is a household name. As well as being the winner of six Tony Awards, two Grammys and an Emmy, The 53-year-old is also a bit of a truth-teller, to say the least. Earlier this summer, we sat down with Audra for a conversation on life, activism and navigating an artistic career in traditionally white spaces.

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00:47:18

Black Birth: Laboring for justice

Homegoings ·

2023/10/12

***A heads up: This episode contains strong language and unbleeped swearing*** In America, birth is a business; a cultural, political and for-profit system. And currently that system, for Black women, is in crisis. In this episode, host Myra Flynn speaks with a midwife, a doula, and swaps birth stories with two Black women. Together they discuss the joy, the trauma and the needed reckoning to address the racism baked into the pregnancy-industrial complex.

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00:34:14

Breaking the cycle of secrets: A conversation with...

Homegoings ·

2023/09/28

Host Myra Flynn sits down with artist Stephanie Wilson in her first interview since her double mastectomy and breast cancer diagnosis. Together they talk about her ongoing journey toward healing, and her work to break the generational cycle of secrets she believes made her sick in the first place.

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00:35:39

Black love persists

Homegoings ·

2023/09/14

Host Myra Flynn talks with three couples about their love journeys, and how through hopes and dreams, the winds of change, and a heartbreaking history … nevertheless, Black love persists. Homegoings is a production of Vermont Public. Follow season 1 here. Special thanks to Brent Dixon and Tim Sonnefeld. Thanks to Elodie Reed, who is the graphic artist behind all of our Homegoings artist portraits. Elodie makes a new one for each episode and Windy and Henri are front and center this week. Check

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00:35:42

How do you cook YOUR greens?

Homegoings ·

2023/08/31

***A heads up: This episode contains strong language and unbleeped swearing*** Host Myra Flynn unpacks one soul food recipe: collard greens, with local and world-renowned chefs, and even her own mother. Together they explore how the history of a once undesirable food mimics the resilience, innovation and perseverance of a once considered undesirable people.

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00:30:25

Black men: How are you doing?

Homegoings ·

2023/08/17

***A heads up: This episode is gonna get real. There will be some unbleeped swearing, and conversations about mental health issues and suicide. If your heart is feeling heavy today, you may want to sit this one out. And if you are in need of support, you can call, text, or chat: 988. They’re available 24/7.*** In this episode, host Myra Flynn combs the streets of southern California and even her own home, in search of a heartfelt answer to what she thought was a very simple question: Black men: How

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00:33:07

Black beauty

Homegoings ·

2023/08/03

In this second episode, host Myra Flynn speaks with three women of color about their journey toward finding themselves beautiful in a world dominated by a Eurocentric beauty standard.

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00:31:50

Homesick

Homegoings ·

2023/07/20

In this first episode, host Myra Flynn speaks with Reverend Arnold Isadore Thomas, the Pastor of the Good Shepherd Lutheran Church in Jericho, Vermont about what’s makes a home, a home? It may be a place, or a feeling, or maybe it’s a person you’ve been homesick for. Or a people.

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