Slug Stories: Personal Narratives from UCSC Students

Posted by Rachel Goodman | Feb 10, 2024 | All Talk, Arts, Local, Rachel Anne Goodman, Talk of the Bay | 0

Talk of the Bay from KSQD

Slug Stories: Personal Narratives from UCSC Students

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In this episode, we hear three heartfelt stories of struggle and healing from freshmen at UCSC. Each fall quarter, UCSC students write and perform personal “Slug” stories in front of an audience of peers and faculty as part of John R. Lewis College’s Social Justice and Community core course. Modeled after The Moth Radio Hour, this project has been collecting student stories for the past several years in an audio archive. Read more in this article:

About The Author

Rachel Goodman

Rachel is host of Talk of the Bay and Board Chair of KSQD. She is the producer of radio documentaries such as Southern Songbirds: The Women of Early Country and Old Time Music, The Boomtown Chronicles, and Pastures of Plenty, a History of California Farmworkers. She teaches journalism at Cabrillo College in Aptos. She is a recipient of a Peabody award for excellence in journalism.