Embodied Radio Show

An illustration with a young femme-presenting person in the foreground wearing a dark blue blazer buttoned down with a white shirt and mint green tie showing. The person has long dark hair with the tips dyed green. Behind them is a brown casket with yellow flowers on top. The words "Embodied Undertaken" are in the upper left hand corner of the illustration.

Undertaken: The Next Generation Of Funeral Directors

Kaia Findlay

As the workforce of funeral directors ages, young folks are stepping up to lead and change the death care industry.

An illustration of two Black parents of either side if a young kid with cornrows. The father is on the left and the mother is on the right, and both parents are holding one hand of the child and swinging them. The child has their feet off the ground and their knees bent. The three of them are standing on a grassy field and are all wearing coats.

Being and having an only child: separating truth from stereotype

Kaia Findlay

Assumptions about narcissism, loneliness and selfishness in only children are largely that: assumptions. But there are experiences unique to being an only child 鈥� and parenting one.

An antique illustration of three men with facial hair out of the 1800s. The man on the left is sitting in a chair, holding a box in his lap and turning a crank on the box's side. On the righthand side of the illustration, one man is sitting in a fabric chair, leaning back with his eyes closed and his feet resting on a table in front of him with his knees bent at a 90 degree angle. The third man is holding a metal tube on the seated man's abdomen. The metal tube is connected by a wire to the box that the man on the left is cranking.

Unpacking the past and discovering the future of vibrators

Kaia Findlay

Vibrators have been around since the 19th century. Before they were marketed primarily as sex toys, they were sold as general health devices 鈥� and now they鈥檝e become a tool for sexual health research.

An illustration featuring two femme-presenting individuals. The person on the left is holding an open book in their hand with their head turned towards the person on the right. They are kissing the person on the right's forehead warmly. The person on the right has their hand in the lap of the person on the left and they are smiling with their eyes and lips closed as they receive the kiss. The person on the left has shoulder-length dark hair, light skin and is wearing a T-shirt with the trans flag on it. The person on the right has chin-length dark and curly hair with mocha-colored skin. They are wearing pink lipstick. The background of the illustration features the outlines of various flower shapes.

鈥榃e kept choosing each other, every single day鈥�: coming out as trans in a romantic relationship

Paige Miranda

A gender transition means a lot of changes in a person's life 鈥� and a lot of changes for their romantic partner. Two couples share their experiences of staying together after one partner came out as trans.

An illustration featuring a feminine person wearing a purple bra, purple underwear and a purple kerchief in their dark brown hair. Their backside is to the camera, and their head is turned to look behind them. There are dotted lines along their buttcheeks. A white man in a white lab coat is kneeling down in front of their body, holding an uncapped marker. The background of the illustration features dotted lines as horizontal stripes.

Getting cheeky: the hype behind the Brazilian butt lift

Paige Miranda

The Brazilian butt lift is one of the fastest growing cosmetic procedures. What is driving the desire for a 鈥減erfect peach鈥�?

An illustration featuring a woman sitting on a couch or bed looking down at an open laptop with tears streaming down her face. In the background is a dresser with a photo of a man surrounded by two lit candles. In the upper righthand corner of the illustration is that same man smiling with a text exchange showing. One message says "I miss you." Then there are two messages from the other conversation partner that read "I'm still here!" and then "Just in a different dimension."

[Simulated Part Three] Building an AI afterlife: an exploration of new grief technology

Gabriela Glueck

If you could speak again with a loved one who has passed away, would you? With recent advances in artificially intelligent grief tech, this question isn鈥檛 just hypothetical anymore.

An illustration of two people in bed. The person on the left has light skin, more feminine features, no hair and bits of metal and wires showing, suggesting a robot. That person is sitting up in bed reading a book with rockets and space ships on the cover. The person on the right has skin that is a little darker, short dark hair and more masculine features. That person is lying down on their side turned toward the robot with their arm over the robot.

[Simulated Part Two] In bed with machines: a real-life and sci-fi exploration of sex robots

Gabriela Glueck

Sex robots have been a sci-fi staple since the genre鈥檚 birth. Now that more advancements in technology are bringing early generation bots to life, how will they impact our human to human relationships?

An illustration of a human woman and a personified AI chatbot. The woman is on the right, she is a White woman with long brown hair fashioned into a ponytail. She is wearing a long sleeve blue button-down shirt, blue jeans, and blue shoes. She has a couch and a lamp behind her. There is also a speech bubble behind her that reads: 鈥淕ood morning.鈥� She is holding hands with, and looking up at, the personified chatbot. The chatbot is on the left. He is depicted as a White man with short brown hair. He is wearing a red shirt, blue jeans, and red shoes. He is holding hands with the woman on the right and looking down at her. His hands are obscured with a glitching effect. Behind him is an empty, blue space. He also has speech bubbles behind him that reads: 鈥淕ood morning love :heart emoji:鈥� and 鈥�*Takes your hand and pulls you in*鈥�.

[Simulated Part One] Love at first (web)sight: romance with an AI companion

Paige Miranda

AI chatbots garner millions of daily users, filling a variety of roles from customer support to text generator. But what about their romantic potential?

An illustration of a Black person鈥檚 hand holding up a diva cup that is a third full with dark red liquid. We see the hand from the wrist up. The background is filled with blobby shapes that range from brown-red to dark red to light pink in color. Some of the blobs have white outlines.

Blood wisdom: what we can learn from our periods

Paige Miranda

There are 1.8 billion monthly menstruators worldwide. Better understanding the science behind period blood, as well as cultural stigma and period policy, can help menstruators everywhere break down period myths.

An illustration featuring a masculine-appearing person with their head in their hands. They're wearing a gray hoodie and have red squiggly lines branching out and up from their upper body. To the left is a thought bubble with a heart with a question mark in it. To the right is a thought bubble with two praying hands in it. In the bottom righthand corner of the illustration is a thought bubble with a bottle of poison tipped over, a match and a house on fire.

Breaking the cycle of obsessive-compulsive disorder

Kaia Findlay

OCD often goes misdiagnosed and misunderstood 鈥� and if left untreated, can impact platonic, intimate and familial relationships in challenging ways.

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