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All podcast content including episodes, graphics, and podcast descriptions are uploaded and provided directly by DamnInteresting. Similar to Damn Interesting 10M ago 44w ago Subscribe Unsubscribe Monthly As She Rises brings together local poets and activists from throughout North America to depict the effects of climate change on their home and their people.

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Each episode carries the listener to a new place through a collection of voices, local recordings and soundscapes. Stories span from the Louisiana Bayou, to the tundras of Alaska to the drying bed of the Colorado River. Centering the voices of native women and women of color, As She Rises personalizes the elusive magnitude of climate cha Book bans are on the rise across America.

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