All The Only Ones: The missing piece of the puzzle

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🗓️ 2 November 2023

⏱️ 46 minutes

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In our first episode, we meet Zen, a Mexican-American, New Orleans native, coming into their transness, exploring its spectrum, as we learn about an historic trans person, Bernard, from Alabama in the early 1900s, fighting to be seen. They're both navigating their identities in a world that is constantly trying to define them.

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0:15.4	Hey, I'm Kelly McEvers, and this is Embedded from NPR.
0:19.4	And I am here with reporter Lane Kaplan-Levenson.
0:22.8	They are the host of our new series, all the only ones.
0:26.0	Hey, Lane.
0:26.6	Hey, Kelly. How's it going?
0:27.9	Good. How are you?
0:29.2	Good.
0:29.7	I'm so excited about this series.
0:31.5	Oh, that's really, really nice to hear.
0:33.9	And I'm so happy to be talking to you today.
0:36.3	And yeah, this is just a thrill.
0:37.8	Cool, cool, cool.
0:38.5	May do.
0:39.5	So for a long time, you were a reporter and producer
0:43.5	with our friends over at the NPR History Podcast through Line, right?
0:47.0	Yes.
0:47.7	A show that looks at things that are happening in the news
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