323: What if you were suddenly a blank slate?
This Is Actually Happening
Wondery
4.6 • 9.9K Ratings
🗓️ 11 June 2024
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Summary
A woman growing up in worn torn Columbia comes to the US and builds a new life, but when she suffers a freak accident and loses her sense of self, a new beginning transforms the scars of her past.
Today’s episode featured Ingrid Rojas-Contreras. If you’d like to learn more about Ingrid you can find her on Instagram @i_rojas_contreras twitter: ingrid_rojas_c and on her website: ingridrojascontreras.com. Ingrid’s memoir The Man Who Could Move Clouds was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, National Book Award, and National Book Critics Circle Award, and her debut novel Fruit of the Drunken Tree was the silver medal winner in First Fiction from the California Book Awards. Her essays and short stories have appeared in the New York Times Magazine, The Believer, and Zyzzyva, among others. She lives in California. These books are available wherever books are sold.
Producers: Whit Missildine, Andrew Waits, Sara Marinelli
Content/Trigger Warnings: graphic bodily injury, civil war, sexual violence, rape, torture, explicit language
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| 0:00.0 | This is actually happening features real experiences that often include traumatic events. |
| 0:04.1 | Please consult the show notes for specific content warnings on each episode and for more information about support services. Hi listeners I'm excited to announce that next week we begin a six-part miniseries called the 82% modern stories of love and family |
| 0:26.7 | the series will run beginning next week through the end of the season in late July |
| 0:31.1 | and will feature six stories of people who have challenged |
| 0:34.4 | some of our deepest societal norms by reimagining what love and family can be. |
| 0:39.2 | We'll hear from an asexual man who forms a unique family structure to raise a child, a trans-masculine man who becomes |
| 0:46.1 | pregnant, and a person who grows up in a polyamorous family, just to name a few. |
| 0:50.9 | The series created in collaboration with Heath and Lily from the Modern Family |
| 0:55.1 | Institute will also feature bonus content conversations between me and several experts |
| 0:59.8 | in the field including Jessica Fern and Alex Chen. |
| 1:03.0 | So stay tuned next week as we begin the 82% series. |
| 1:07.0 | But now we bring you the unbelievable story of Ingrid Rolhas-Contreras |
| 1:11.0 | for today's episode, What If you were suddenly a blank slate? |
| 1:19.2 | I'm not thinking about the future, I'm not thinking about what's happening, I am just in the moment and it feels like I am |
| 1:26.8 | listening to my own blood like some sort of internal song that was so magical and I felt like this was the mystery of |
| 1:39.2 | being alive. From Wundery, I'm Witt Misleine. You are listening to this is actually happening. |
| 1:55.0 | Episode 323. Episode 323, what if you were suddenly a blank slate? |
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