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This series features stories about reclaiming neighborhoods, music venues, childhood obsessions, sports teams, languages, and ways of seeing ourselves. It’s about holding the tension between what we were and who we’ve become. It’s about returning to our origins with a more nuanced perspective.

Reclaiming Stories and Transcripts

Protesters with sign "Save Little Tokyo"
Reclaiming, Part 1

Home is Little Tokyo

Little Tokyo is a small neighborhood in Downtown Los Angeles. Since 1905, it has been home to generations of Japanese Americans. Today, gentrification is threatening to destroy everything these families have built.

feet standing on cut stone steps
Reclaiming, Part 2

Journey Through Generations

In this episode, the 2nd in our Reclaiming What's Been Lost series, Aru Nair goes on a journey to India to understand how oral tradition preserves cultures.

Stanford wrestling team
Reclaiming, Part 3

Keep Stanford Wrestling

In the spring of 2020, Stanford University made the decision to cut 11 of their varsity teams due to financial issues and lack of success. 

torso with tattoos on arm and chest
Reclaiming, Part 4

Tattoos and Taboos

Whether you have a tattoo or not, we are all familiar with the stigmas that are commonly held against tattoos. Where does this aversion come from? What do these taboos say about history? What do they say about us?

stage with musical equipment and colorful graffiti
Reclaiming, Part 5

Welcome to Paradise

Carolyn Stein grew up with music like Avril Lavigne and The Marianas Trench – classic, trashy pop punk. But she never considered herself much of a punk rocker, until she took a little trip to the East Bay to a tiny venue called 924 Gilman Street.

illustration of words friends in liminal spaces
Reclaiming, Part 6

Friends in Liminal Spaces

When Anastasia Sotiropoulos joined the Stanford chapter of the Prison Renaissance Project, she got paired up with a man named Adamu Chan, who had been incarcerated at San Quentin prison for two decades.

child dressed as orca and two divers riding an orca; orca boy text
Reclaiming, Part 7

Orca Boy

Max Du was so obsessed with SeaWorld that his childhood friends called him Orca Boy. But when a SeaWorld trainer named Dawn was killed by an orca, his love for whales turned to shame . . . 

Reclaiming, part 8

Back to the Garden

Jose and Rich are organic farmers committed to sustainability . . . and they don't believe in climate change. This episode explores how that dissonance might be possible, the power of language, and whether or not the term "climate change" will help save the planet.

Playlist for all Reclaiming Stories