Welcome to Ping and Echo, a daily newsletter that shares one amazing podcast episode guaranteed to be a great listen for kids and their families. Each newsletter includes links to articles, videos, and activities related to the podcast so you can turn every episode into an adventure.
Today’s podcast episode is from So Get Me, the podcast of the Grammy award winning music group the Alphabet Rockers. They are an Oakland based kids band focused on making music oriented around community, activism, and social change. Each episode pairs one song from their new album with interviews hosted by kids from the band. In this episode, Kali interviews Michaella, an 11-year-old transgender girl who talks about sharing her gender journey with her parents. The episode provides some great modeling for how to talk about many different parts of our identity, how to be an ally, and how to be yourself. In the second half of the podcast Kali interviews Innosanto Nagara, author of A is for Activist.
Podcast: So Get Me
Episode: I’m A Star
URL: https://www.buzzsprout.com/345857/1498507-i-m-a-star
Length: 23 minutes
🧐 You Should Know
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💡 Try This
After you listen to the episode you can build on the themes in this episode with the links and activities below:
🔎 Explore More
Read up on the band, books, and kids behind this episode with these links:
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