Living in our Bodies

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Gretta Cohn and Isabel Carter from Transmitter Media

Why did you choose this theme?

The season changing to spring means being able to feel the wind in our hair and sun on our skin again. It feels great to be experiencing these sensations, and reminds us why being in your body can be wonderful! These podcasts help us think deeper about living in our bodies, including how we define our bodies and what we get to do with them.

PODCAST PICKS:Click on the podcast art to listen 👂

Rebel Eaters ClubFat and Happy with Laurie SantosHosted by Virgie Tovar, Rebel Eaters Club is a podcast about breaking up with diet culture. In intimate, long-form conversations, Virgie shares snacks and stories of her own recovery with activists and food lovers of all stripes. In the first episode of the new season, Virgie talks to The Happiness Lab host Laurie Santos about harmful happiness myths like "the perfect body" that contribute to diet culture.

The Best Advice ShowPancaking with Ronia CabansagThe Best Advice Show is a bite-sized immersive sound-rich podcast in which guests share a hard-won life lesson in under 10 minutes. One of our curators' favorite episodes, and a great one to start with, is about making pancakes instead of making cookies. It's a show with great advice about living in your body as yourself.

Harsh Reality: The Story of Miriam RiveraSomething About Miriam

This podcast is a look back at an early reality dating show that starred a trans woman — but her transness was kept secret from the contestants until the show’s finale. Made by trans producers and hosted by Trace Lysette, this podcast is an important and entertaining commentary on representation.

Well-Read Black Girl with Glory EdimBrit Bennett on Writing ConfidentlyThis pick goes out to the brain! Well-Read Black Girl is everything EarBuds curators Gretta Cohn and Isabel Carter want from a book club — the book choices are all great, and the conversation gets them inside of books that they have loved. This episode is with Brit Bennett, author of The "Vanishing Half," a book in part about passing and the performance of identity.

OlogiesEchinology (SEA URCHINS & SAND DOLLARS) with Rich Mooi Ologies is all about non-human bodies and the non-humans that live in them. And also things without bodies at all. This recent episode is about sea urchins and sand dollars — and “what it’s like for your whole body to be an eye.”

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FEEDBACK WITH EARBUDS:

This week on Feedback...Gretta Cohn and Isabel Carter tell us about their work at Transmitter Media, where Gretta is the CEO and Isabel is an associate producer. They also dive into their podcast recommendations.PLUS: Hear about this week's spotlight, Seattle Now!Feedback with EarBuds is the audio version of this newsletter and drops on Tuesdays!We'd LOVE it if you'd subscribe and hit play.

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CLASSIFIEDS:

📜Searching for sunken slave ships. Preserving sacred sites. Challenging narratives. Uncovering hidden histories. This season, SAPIENS explores how Black and Indigenous voices are changing the stories archaeology tells. Through an array of deep dives, interviews, and storytelling, this show re-centers the stories of our pasts to orient us toward a new future.🧴The Skin Report: Skincare can sometimes feel overwhelming, especially for women of color. Every Wednesday, join Dr. Simran Sethi as she covers all aspects of skincare and skin treatments for women of color.🔈On June 9, Substack opens applications for the Summer of Sound, a 5-week immersive workshop to empower podcasters, writers, and sound-focused creators to deepen their focus, build a strategy, test techniques, and grow their publications into sustainable projects. Learn more here.

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PODCAST SPOTLIGHT:

Seattle NowSeattle Now is a morning news show for Seattleites, every weekday at 6am.In 10-minute episodes Monday through Friday, host Patricia Murphy delivers the essential stories shaping the city.Listen with your morning coffee to start your day right in the Emerald City.

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