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We tell tales of the train and bus yard, the tenement yard and the prison yard. We detail close calls and chase stories. We dig into larger conversations about crossing boundaries, the other side of the tracks, borders, and forbidden space. Whether to make big life changes, to forward the artistic or professional practice, to escape peril—or just for the sheer thrill of it. With first-person storytellers including trans-disciplinary artist Lupe Maravilla, musician/producer Scott Harding ("Scotty Hard"), drug-user activist and award-winning radio documentarian Garth Mullins (from the Crackdown podcast), graffiti artist and fashion designer Claudia Gold ("Claw Money"), pioneering painter and graffiti artist Chris "Freedom" Pape, and many more.

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Ryan McMahon: John Wayne Is Dead

2021/12/09

Ryan McMahon; groundbreaking Anishinaabe comedian, writer, producer, and creator of compelling media confronts the borders he has faced throughout his entire career. Borders that he was able to kick down in an effort to create a new space for a new narrative about Indigenous presence in today's popular culture as we know it.

Airto Morales: Behind The Wall

2021/11/26

Multigenerational trauma and a life of violence led to many of Airto Morales' early years being incarcerated, ultimately landing him with a long prison sentence. But even after getting out from behind the wall, Airto never did leave the prison system. Airto is now an advocate and consultant at the Haywood Burns Institute in Oakland, where he continues to work with community to abolish carceral systems across the nation, targeting structural racism and supplanting it with structural wellbeing.

Chris Pape: Freedom Tunnel

2021/11/11

First generation NYC graffiti writer, author, documentarian, archivist, and historian Chris Pape, AKA FREEDOM, tells his own surreptitious stories around the Upper West Side Manhattan train tunnel that was ultimately named after him. His decision to live on the streets and paint in the "Freedom" tunnel propelled him toward a career that he never could have imagined.

Claw Money: Key To The City

2021/11/04

World renowned graffiti writer, fashion designer, and cultural icon Claw Money recounts the many borders she had to cross in order to land in the space that she calls Claw & Co. When life puts a fence in your way, you climb it. When it puts a second one, you rip your pants.

Bennington: Ghost Stories

2021/10/29

Bennington alumni spanning four generations come together to share first person paranormal experiences and encounters they had on the small campus in Southern Vermont. As the stories unfold, striking parallels are drawn that prompt deep questions about space, who owns it, and who is not welcome to occupy it.

Scotty Hard: The Hard Way

2021/10/21

Musician, producer, and engineer Scott Harding tells a life-changing story about a fateful night in Brooklyn in 2008. The line that Scotty crossed that night was a line that he never asked to cross.

Bonus: Presenting "Crackdown"

2021/10/18

Garth Mullins: A Ghost In My Own Life

2021/10/14

Garth Mullins is a journalist and radio documentary producer who focuses on the decriminalization of drugs, issues of race, class, environment, capitalism, colonialism, and oppression. Listen in as he details the struggles he has had to work through in order to become one of the leading voices in the fight for a safe and legal drug supply. In his words, this could completely eliminate the overdose crisis as we know it.

Susan Tran: Canada Is Racist

2021/10/07

Susan Tran is a Vietnamese Canadian who was kidnapped from her mother in Vietnam at the age of two. But she never knew that she even had a mother because her abductor was her own father, intent on keeping her abduction a secret. After immigrating to Canada, Susan discovered that her mother’s strength and resilience was the foundation for her own self empowerment. Which now allows her to fully embrace her own family and culture, and also empowers her to confront Canada’s special brand of deep seated racism head on without reservation.

Lupe Maravilla: Tripa Chuca

2021/09/30

Renowned transdisciplinary artist Guadalupe Maravilla was among the first wave of undocumented immigrants to enter the US from Central America when he immigrated alone from El Salvador at the age of 8. In this audio narrative, Maravilla sensitively recounts harrowing tales of traumas experienced during the events leading up to and including his border crossings and how they later evolved into an illness he uncovered through experimentation with “ancient medicines” — eventually getting diagnosed with and then overcoming stage 3B colon cancer.

Luz Fleming: Potreros

2021/09/30

A story of finding family boundaries, fleeing danger, and the inescapable pull of graffiti. On a cold winter night in early 1990s San Francisco, a group of kids attempt to quench their insatiable appetite for bus yard destruction with an all-out Muni assault that doesn't go the way they had hoped.

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2021/09/24

A podcast about crossing boundaries and entering forbidden space.

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riddikuluspatronus1 2021/11/30

Wow amazing!

These stories are so emotional and powerful it will keep you locked into each episode from beginning to end. Great messages on how to persevere throug...

★★★★★

EllenpdxGirl 2021/10/27

Eye opening and important to our existence

This show is made for us empaths who recognize the experience of others as valid without judgment. You’ll learn about individuals who live or feel lif...

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dforgetful 2021/10/10

Very interesting stories of real experiences

I found these tales of each individuals yard tales extremely interesting because they relate to current topics going on in todays world. They tell the...

★★★★★

Mort Schwabb 2021/09/30

Amazing stories

Loved listening to these. So interesting. Wonderful productions too

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mzeljaye 2021/09/26

CANNOT WAIT for 9/30!

Luz’s voice is entrancing and the trailers have utterly served their purpose! I’m intrigued and excited for the first full length episode. Definitely ...

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