94 - The Perfect Day
Sending Messages: The Podcast
The boys discuss their perfect day. This episode includes a poem by Stizzy, discussions on dreams, visions of the future, love, and love languages.
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93 - Voices From the Unit
Sending Messages: The Podcast
Join us today and listen to 10 poems written, performed, and produced by youth in a secure care facility in Utah. Poetry surrounding topics such as longing, remorse, existence, and so much more. Hosted by Chavo. These are the voices from the unit. Poetry and interviews for this episode by the following: To My Past Self - Stizzy Letter to the Family - Gordo Dear Ayash - Two I'm Sorry Momma - Gordo Time - Stizzy Fear - Bobby My Favorite Hiding Place - Mr. Wise I Remember - Smiley Mentally Obscured - Chavo Letter - Ruby Song: 3AM - Two
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92 - The Beginning: Perceptions, Lessons, and Values
Sending Messages: The Podcast
In this episode, the boys get together to discuss things they have taken for granted, lessons they have learned, how they are percieved and percieve others, and their own values. Hosted by Chavo. Co Hosted by Steezy, Smiley, Bobby, Mr. Wise, Gordo, Ruby, and Two. Thanks for listening!
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91 - Lessons
Sending Messages: The Podcast
In this episode, the girls of Sending Messages talk about lessons that they have learned. Experiences that have been tough to deal with but ones that have undoubtedly taught them something. Stories, poems, and songs by Nickle Walnut, Bonnie, Freddy, and Sage. This episode was hosted by Freddy.
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90 - Misunderstandings,Misconceptions, and Miscommunications
Sending Messages: The Podcast
In this episode, Ghetti, Barbie, and Bonnie are joined by their staff member Jorge to discuss how communication, boundaries, race, friendships, trauma, and keeping the peace can get mixed up when you live side by side with people you don't get along with.
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89 - Three Girls On The Beat
Sending Messages: The Podcast
In this episode, Freddy, Ghetti, and Diamond answer questions about their families, the frustrations of being incarcerated, mistakes they have made, and their hopes for the future.
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88 - Nightmares
Sending Messages: The Podcast
Fear and Nightmares impact incarcerated youth differently than it does other young people. You wake up in the middle of the night to find out you have just entered a new bad dream of lock up. You relive the same mistakes and regrets over and over. In this episode, stories, poetry, and conversations about nightmares are written, performed, and produced by Velli, Bonnie, Boots, Diamond, Freddy, Ghetti, Hazel, and Sage. Thanks for listening.
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87 - A Cold Christmas and Other Stories
Sending Messages: The Podcast
This year the students in Sending Messages tried to make a holiday podcast, but didn't really get too far. Instead, enjoy poetry and letters about loss, lockup, and love from AktivE, Tina, Static, Scar, and C-Dot, as well as conversations featuring Virtuosity, AktivE, Static, Phoenix, C-Dot, G-Man, and Ruthless. This episode was mixed and hosted by Phoenix. Happy Holidays.
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Episode 86 - The House
Sending Messages: The Podcast
Join us on this house tour. Walk through the halls, peek in the rooms, and climb the stairs. This isn't just any house. This is a house made of memories. Bricks carved out of trauma, doors cracked by anger and floors worn by fear. But all of the locks are open, and the stories these walls are ready to tell are desperate to be heard. So come in. Poetry and interviews for this episode by the following: The kitchen - Virtuosity The Closet - Star The Bathroom - Tina Posole What Home Means - Waffles & Answer The Bedroom - K One The Basement - Icarus The Elevator - Kenzo The Rooftop - Ghetti Guiding...
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Episode 85 - Stolen and Lost
Sending Messages: The Podcast
What has been stolen? Who has been lost? Are there times they are the same things? This episode the Sending Messages girls discuss the things that have been taken away in their lives. Both tangible items, identities, time, and sometimes, people. Stories and interviews by Tina Posole, Star, Icarus, Skarr, and Ghetti. Thanks for listening.
info_outlineSending Messages contributors make individual pieces in a process of self reflection, often speaking on their own lives and experiences. Heard together, however, these pieces can paint a broader picture of what young people in the juvenile justice system are going through in general. Today on the podcast, young women housed in facilities and treatment centers around the Salt Lake Valley share their struggles with addiction and social isolation, the hard path toward change, and their visions for their futures.