The Moth Radio Hour: How You See Me

The Moth

Arts, Performing Arts

4.6 • 25.4K Ratings

🗓️ 23 April 2024

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

In this hour, stories of how we see ourselves, the perceptions of others, and the often gaping chasm in between. The struggle to prove oneself, challenge a stereotype, keep up appearances, and finally discover what really fits. This hour is hosted by Jay Allison of Atlantic Public Media, the producer of this show.

Storytellers:

Enrique García Naranjo is stopped by border patrol.

Aydrea Walden realizes her classmates see her differently.

Miles Crabtree tries out for his school's production of "How the West Was Won."

Kimberly Rose sees herself disappearing in her marriage.

Jessi Klein lands what she thinks is her dream job.

Transcript

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0:00.0	From PRX, this is the Moth Radio Hour. I'm Jay Allison and in this show we're hearing
0:18.1	about the way we see ourselves versus the way others see us.
0:23.0	spoiler alert, they aren't always the same.
0:26.0	Our first story comes from Enrico Garcia-Niramjo,
0:30.0	who told this live on stage at the Mesa Arts Center in Arizona.
0:35.0	Here's Enrike.
0:37.0	So I'm getting ready for this poetry performance in front of 60 to 70 high school students in Douglas, Arizona, a town that sits about five minutes away from the US-Mexico border.
0:51.0	And I'm getting to read this poem I wrote about my Barrio. The Barrio lived in for the
0:55.8	majority of my teenage years. And as I'm getting waited for this poem, I look into the
1:00.5	crowd and I see all the sleepy and uninterested faces.
1:07.0	And quickly I went him over with this poem I wrote about the holiness of tacos and
1:12.0	the unrelenting spirit of Mexican grandmothers.
1:14.8	And right after that poem I asked them to pull out pencils and paper for them to write.
1:19.5	I give them a prompt.
1:21.0	One of my favorite prompts when I'm doing the sort of thing, the city
1:24.5	within my chest. And after that I leave the school with my partner Selina who
1:30.1	drove up there with me and I'm reflecting on the students and their poems.
1:34.9	Specifically on the way they wrote these poems, right?
1:37.7	Bilingually, in English and Spanish, a real reflection of who they are as people,
1:42.8	people between cultures, between languages,
1:45.4	Fronterizas and Frontizos, people of the border.
1:48.9	And as I'm on our way back to Tucson
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