The Sunday Story: All The Only Ones

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🗓️ 3 December 2023

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

In this week's episode, Ayesha shares the latest series out of NPR's Embedded. In "All The Only Ones," Laine Kaplan-Levenson unearths the little-known and often neglected history of trans youth in America. The series follows the lives of young transgender people today and travels back in time to the turn of the 20th century to meet some of the earliest trans youth documented in American history.

You can listen to the 3-part series on the Embedded feed here.

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0:00.0	I'm Aisha Roscoe and this is a Sunday story.
0:02.8	So here at NPR, there's always a lot going on,
0:06.3	breaking news, investigative reporting,
0:09.1	tiny desk concerts,
0:11.1	and deeply reported podcast series.
0:14.4	I've been listening to this three-part series
0:16.8	that finds meaning by weaving together the past and the present.
0:21.4	It's out of Embedded, our long-form documentary unit, and I'm so excited for you to hear some of it.
0:27.0	So I'll hand it over to Embedded Host Kelly McEvers and let her take it from here. Hey, I'm Kelly McEvers, and I'm here with reporter Lane Kaplan Levenson.
0:45.0	They are the host of our new series,
0:47.2	All the only ones.
0:48.2	Hey Lane.
0:48.8	Hey Kelly.
0:49.4	How's it going?
0:50.0	Good, how are you?
0:51.2	Good.
0:51.7	I'm so excited about this series.
0:53.4	Oh, that's really, really nice to hear and I'm so happy to be talking to you today and yeah, this is just a thrill.
0:59.8	Cool, cool, cool, cool, may do.
1:01.0	So for a long time, you were a reporter and producer
1:05.6	with our friends over at the NPR History Podcast, throughline, right?
1:09.1	Yes.
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