This is the Point
4 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 3 years ago - ★★★★★ - 1 ratingPackard Foundation's This Is the Point – is an original podcast conversation about reproductive rights, gender equality, and adolescent health education in Louisiana. Now more than ever, the public deserves accurate and balanced information from respected and credible sources. This platform transforms the way we hear and view the day-to-day reality of these issues and their subsequent impacts. With Louisiana voices - advocates of the work, impacted families, celebrities, and influencers - the podcast brings a less stark more familiar tone and long-format content to these difficult, complex and life impacting topics.
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Episodes
EPISODE 4 | SEX EDUCATION, A REALISTIC ANSWER TO TEEN PREGNANCY? PART 2 / SONNY LEE
May 28, 2021 19:00 - 34 minutes - 23.8 MBDescription Episode: Episode 2B specifically focuses on adolescent reproductive health, teen pregancy and parenting from a young man’s point of view. Sonny and Dr. Pasternak converse about that unique and important learning window of opportunity during adolescence where the introduction of health and care for ones’ body merges with adult mentorship, emotional support, development of life skills, exposure to constructive experiences and formation of positive, lasting peer-to-peer relationshi...
EPISODE 3 | SEX EDUCATION, A REALISTIC ANSWER TO TEEN PREGNANCY? PART 1 / IRMA THOMAS
May 27, 2021 23:00 - 33 minutes - 22.8 MBEpisode title: Sex Education, a Realistic Answer to Teen Pregancy? The episode explores teen-pregnancy, sexual health, and sexual health education. Hosts and guests discuss shaping healthy and successful development for vulnerable young people facing life altering pressures like unplanned pregnancy, HIV, early marriage, violence, school dropout and unemployment. Host: Nia Weeks, a New Orleans lawyer, humanitarian, and founder of Citizen She, will host the podcast. Twice monthly, she wil...
EPISODE 2 | WHAT’S IN A PRONOUN? PART 2 / JODIE PATTERSON
May 27, 2021 22:00 - 27 minutes - 19 MBEpisode title: What’s In a Pronoun? What’s in a Label, explores what gender and gender identification means in today’s world. Host: Nia Weeks, a New Orleans lawyer, humanitarian, and founder of Citizen She, hosts the podcast. Twice monthly, she shares the microphone with a topic-expert co-host and a special guest influencer. Co-host: Pearl Ricks, Executive Director of the Reproductive Justice Action Collective (ReJAC) is an advocate, activist, and social change writer in New Orleans, Pea...
EPISODE 1 | WHAT’S IN A PRONOUN? PART 1 / BIG FREEDIA
May 26, 2021 20:00 - 23 minutes - 16.2 MBTitle: What’s In a Pronoun? explores what gender and gender identification means in today’s world. Host: Nia Weeks, a New Orleans lawyer, humanitarian, and founder of Citizen She, will host the podcast. Co-host: Pearl Ricks, Executive Director of the Reproductive Justice Action Collective (ReJAC), is an advocate, activist, and social change writer in New Orleans, Pearl goes by the pronouns they/them. Guest: Big Freedia, Freddie Ross Jr., better known by her stage name Big Freedia, is a...