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Stories from Cumberland is a six-part documentary series about the 2019 Youth Media Lab hosted by the University of North Texas Department of Media Arts. Join teaching fellow Rob Upchurch as he highlights the impact this media literacy and production workshop had on a group of young people in foster care.
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Welcome to STFU Podcast with Nishea Balajadia. I am a single mother, survivor of childhood abuse and domestic violence, a retired foster parent, a community advocate in Fresno, California. I grew up in corporate tech world (I worked at Fortune 500 Companies like AT&T, Google, and Flextronics) and left in 2017 to pursue community organizing and advocacy where I was roped into evangelical megachurch cult life and escaped their grasps in 2019 while fostering three toddlers under three. I began ...
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Episode 3: Andre Henry and Make It To Tomorrow EP
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Andre and I recorded this episode a couple of weeks before his album Make It To Tomorrow released. Our conversation talked about Andre's creative process this album and the stories behind his writing. We had a beautiful discussion about accountability in families and shed a few tears together. I was able to listen to the EP afterwards and have been…
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Episode 2: Decentering Adoptive Parents with Kelsey Vander Vliet Ranyard
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This conversation with Kelsey Vander Vliet Ranyard is so important when it comes to adoption, the difference between private adoption, foster-to-adopt, and fostering, and how this system is designed to harm all three parties [birth parent(s), child, and adoptive parent(s)]. I love this conversation with Kelsey and really grateful that we were able …
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Episode 1: Decolonizing Spirituality + Reclaiming & Discovering Self With Tiff Perez
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I am really excited to be able to start this season off with this conversation with Tiff. We talk about red flags in the church, what it's like to find spirituality daily, and after leaving a cult mega church. If you have ever been in toxic and abusive spaces you know how difficult it is to leave, Tiff and I discuss what the enmeshment untangling l…
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The summer 2019 Youth Media Lab allowed Cumberland residents to develop life skills and the ability to more effectively communicate with other people, and the teaching fellows were given valuable teaching experience. In the final episode of Stories from Cumberland, professors Vickery and Carter, the Youth Media Lab teaching fellows, staff and resid…
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After learning about media literacy and production for two whole weeks (during their summer vacation, no less!) the residents of Cumberland got to show off their hard work at a special screening held at Cumberland Presbyterian Children’s Home. This red carpet event had it all – posters, a projector, and even snacks! Afterwards, a Court Appointed Sp…
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One of the major outcomes the Youth Media Lab seeks is to enable young people from marginalized populations to advocate for themselves through media production. Using the skills they were taught the week before, the Cumberland residents were broken into groups and given a week to produce their very own projects. There are no limits – except that th…
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One of the goals of the Youth Media Lab is to teach media production skills to young people in the North Texas community. After all, if we are teaching kids that media around them are constructed for a purpose, shouldn't they be given the ability to create and share their own messages? Now that they knew about media literacy, the residents from Cum…
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Media can be more complex than you think. There’s a reason they’re made, techniques are used to hold your attention, and certain perspectives are included while others are omitted. Media literacy is the ability to access, analyze, evaluate, and create media. In this episode, the Cumberland residents learn these skills and prepare for two weeks of a…
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Expressing yourself can be hard, especially if it seems like other people are always deciding what is best for you and telling you who you are. As a research and social outreach initiative of the department of Media Arts at the University of North Texas, the Youth Media Lab seeks to educate young people from marginalized communities about the media…
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Sexual abuse is now a part of my genetic makeup (trauma changes a survivor on the molecular level {citing every psychology and biology report on trauma}). And while I deal with it every day, I know there are others who also have the pain of dealing with the consequences of someone else's actions on their life. This is my experience with my abuse, r…
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