Coming of Age: Stories about growing up
The Story Collider
Story Collider, Inc.
4.4 • 824 Ratings
🗓️ 1 June 2018
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
This week, we're presenting stories about coming of age. Bildungsroman, if you will. (Thank you, eleventh-grade Honors English!) These storytellers will share stories about growing up and finding their identities -- whether it's within their family, or within their own bodies.
Part 1: Growing up, Moni Avello struggles to understand her younger sister, who has Asperger's syndrome.
Part 2: For Morgan Givens, the onset of puberty feels like an alien invasion.
Moni (Monika) Avello transplanted herself from Miami, FL to Cambridge, MA 7+ years ago in the pursuit of science, and has yet to regret her northward relocation. Moni prefers her hair a quarter shaved for temperature control and generously dyed to honor the rainbow. She is willingly addicted to strong espresso, a habit she picked up in the 3rd grade. Moni loves to social dance blues, salsa, and bachata. In her free time, she experiments with her favorite bacteria Bacillus subtilis, trying to figure out how it blocks unwanted sex, because science is wonderful fun and the Ph.D. degree in Biology from MIT is a nifty bonus.
Morgan Givens is a storyteller and performer based in Washington, DC. He has performed at Story District's Top Shelf, Creative Mornings DC, Little Salon and a host of other storytelling events throughout the city and along the East Coast. He has been featured in the Washington Post, Upworthy, Buzzfeed and participated in a panel at the 2017 AFI Documentary Film Festival Forum, titled Hear Me Now: The Art of Nonfiction Podcasting. Morgan is the creator and host of the podcast Dispatches, and uses his podcast to explore the intricacies of identity, culture, and the complicated nature of human interaction.
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| 0:28.2 | A science story, huh? |
| 0:31.4 | Is that all your scientist the... |
| 0:33.2 | I felt... |
| 0:33.9 | And I just thought, well... |
| 0:36.2 | It was that golden moment. |
| 0:39.3 | Because science was on my side. |
| 0:41.3 | I'm your host. |
| 0:42.3 | I'm your host, Aaron Barker, and this Hey everybody, welcome to the Story Collider, where we bring you true personal stories about science. |
| 0:56.0 | I'm your host, Aaron Barker, and this week we're presenting stories about coming of age, |
| 1:01.4 | Bill Dung's Roman, if you will. |
| 1:03.8 | These will be stories about growing up, learning, coming into our own, figuring out our roles. |
| 1:09.9 | I feel like this theme is actually pretty appropriate right now |
| 1:12.6 | because this past week I was in Vancouver |
| 1:15.1 | as Story Collider launched a brand new series of shows there. |
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