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When Students at the Bronx High School for the Visual Arts looked around their school, they had a bad case of the "blahs." It was an art school without art, they said. They dreamed of making change but felt powerless and stuck until an idea long hindered began to bloom. In this episode, they discuss how they worked with school administrators to develop a special art project and start a new tradition.

This bonus episode of the Houses on The Moon podcast is part of HOTM & History UnErased’s Youth Equity Podcast program. The program is funded by the New York City Council Committee on Education, and was developed by History UnErased in partnership with Houses on the Moon Theater Company.To learn more, visit https://unerased.org/resource/nycdoe-youth-equity.
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"Don't Say Gay?" We don't think so! In response to Florida's new legislation banning classroom discussions of LGBTQ+ issues and lives, students from PRISM, Aviation High School's Gender and Sexuality Alliance, spoke to Brandon Wolf and Pat Padilla from Equality Florida about the fight against this controversial bill. Learn more in this special feature interview from HOTM & History UnErased's Youth Equity Podcast program.

The Youth Equity Podcast Program is funded by the New York City Council, and developed by History UnErased and Houses on the Moon in partnership with the New York City Department of Education. To learn more, visit https://unerased.org/resource/nycdoe-youth-equity.
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Episode 8 of the Houses on the Moon Podcast spotlights another true tale from gUN COUNTRY, our storytelling workshops with people whose lives have been touched by guns. In “Luck of the Draw” Antonius Wiriadjaja recounts how art and storytelling helped him survive a shooting and how he was forever changed by the love and violence he encountered that day. We'll also speak with Carolyn Dixon of Where Do We Go From Here, Inc., an organization dedicated to helping families navigate grief and trauma in the wake of gun violence.
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On this episode, we share true tales from Houses on the Moon’s international LGBTQ+ story-sharing project The “Q Story Stream.”
We have 2 stories about teachers learning very different lessons. 
When our own Jeffrey Solomon tries to help a bullied student in the drama class he teaches on Staten Island, the adult discovers you never really leave junior high school behind.
 And across the globe in Mumbai, India, Sachin Jain tries to teach his Spanish class while nervously awaiting the verdict from the Indian Supreme Court on whether, as a gay man, he will remain a criminal in his country. 
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On Episode 6 of the Houses on the Moon Podcast, we share Zudaydah Rivera's true tale from Houses on the Moon’s SHARED SENTENCES, a storytelling project with people who have incarcerated loved ones.
Zudaydah was just 4 years old when she first visited her father in a maximum security prison. In her story, “Zudaydah with a Backwards Z”, she struggles to help her young son deal with the imprisonment of his father, and face her own complicated relationship with mass incarceration. We also speak with Zudaydah and Prison Families Anonymous co-founder Barbara Allan about their lives, work, and involvement in SHARED SENTENCES.
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On this episode of the Houses on the Moon Podcast, we spotlight another true tale from our cross-cultural LGBTQ story-sharing project, “Q Story Stream.” In "Certificate of Fluency," Cori Bratby-Rudd describes the realization of her lifelong dream to study in a foreign exchange program, and the fear of judgement from her host family over her two moms. Her story explores the tension between the desire to belong and the need to be true to family and oneself.
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