Margaret talks with Prop about the Texan musician who sung his way out of prison.

Sources:

Bring Judgment Day: Reclaiming Lead Belly’s Truths from Jim Crow’s Lies, Sheila Curran Bernard

https://www.nytimes.com/1962/05/20/archives/if-youre-woke-you-dig-it-no-mickey-mouse-can-be-expected-to-follow.html

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/local/2022/12/22/what-is-woke-meaning-naacp-leaders-talk-about-the-word-martin-st-lucie-indian-river-treasure-coast/8091099001/

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2023/03/09/what-is-woke-meaning/11425775002/

https://www.vox.com/culture/21437879/stay-woke-wokeness-history-origin-evolution-controversy

https://nmaahc.si.edu/explore/stories/scottsboro-boys

https://www.history.com/articles/scottsboro-boys

https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/entries/ledbetter-huddie-leadbelly

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Margaret reads you two stories and a poem from an anthology of young, Palestinian authors

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Margaret continues talking with Kaveh Hoda about the complicated history of homosexuality and homoeroticism in one of the most important empires of the medieval era.

Sources:

https://www.jstor.org/stable/41299403
https://www.thecollector.com/osman-i-ottoman-founder/
https://islamichistory.org/osman-gazi/
https://commons.lib.jmu.edu/jmurj/vol9/iss1/4/
https://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/homosexuality-ii/
https://www.webology.org/data-cms/articles/20220528061731pmwebology%2019%20(2)%20-%20670%20pdf.pdf
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6074556/
https://yoksis.bilkent.edu.tr/pdf/files/10.1177-0363199013519126.pdf
https://dergipark.org.tr/tr/download/article-file/164086
https://www.juancole.com/2025/12/literature-societies-homoerotic.html

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Margaret talks with Kaveh Hoda about the complicated history of homosexuality and homoeroticism in one of the most important empires of the medieval era.

Sources:

https://www.jstor.org/stable/41299403
https://www.thecollector.com/osman-i-ottoman-founder/
https://islamichistory.org/osman-gazi/
https://commons.lib.jmu.edu/jmurj/vol9/iss1/4/
https://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/homosexuality-ii/
https://www.webology.org/data-cms/articles/20220528061731pmwebology%2019%20(2)%20-%20670%20pdf.pdf
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6074556/
https://yoksis.bilkent.edu.tr/pdf/files/10.1177-0363199013519126.pdf
https://dergipark.org.tr/tr/download/article-file/164086
https://www.juancole.com/2025/12/literature-societies-homoerotic.html

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Margaret reads you several short stories written by the one of the ideological leaders of the Mexican Revolution

Original Air Date: 6.1.2025

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Margaret continues talking with Andrew Ti about the worldwide movement, backed by science, that is changing how we treat children.

Sources:

https://africapublicity.com/of-ancestors-and-amendments-rethinking-child-discipline-across-african-realms/
https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/happiest-countries-in-the-world
https://endcorporalpunishment.org/reports-on-every-state-and-territory/usa/
https://www.right-to-education.org/sites/right-to-education.org/files/resource-attachments/CRC_1989.pdf
https://www.ursulakleguin.com/blog?offset=1437445500607
https://www.puyallupwa.gov/535/Domestic-Violence-Statistics
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7390231/
https://issop.org/2018/11/19/e-bulletin-35-2-3-changing-the-law-on-corporal-punishment-in-scotland/
https://news.utexas.edu/2021/06/29/evidence-against-physically-punishing-kids-is-clear-researchers-say/
http://www.jillianvanturnhout.ie/jvt1111/
https://www.jstor.org/stable/26938757?seq=6
https://ijcrt.org/papers/IJCRT2506708.pdf
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/383296874_Corporal_Punishment_From_Ancient_History_to_Global_Progress
https://medium.com/@rabittashahbaz/heres-how-ancient-indian-parenting-values-and-approaches-changed-over-time-4d861b489388
https://www.europarl.europa.eu/cmsdata/180595/20090210ATT48998EN.pdf
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thirty-first_Amendment_of_the_Constitution_of_Ireland
https://brilliantmaps.com/corporal-punishment/
https://endcorporalpunishment.org/reports-on-every-state-and-territory/usa/
https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-29261462
https://agefinder.org/world-age-culture/marriage-age-under-18-countries/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._ratification_of_the_Convention_on_the_Rights_of_the_Child
https://www.africanexponent.com/how-colonialism-deceived-africans-to-believe-hitting-children-is-african-tradition-it-is-not/
https://www.unh.edu/ccrc/sites/default/files/media/2022-02/corporal-punishment-current-rates-from-a-national-survey.pdf

https://www.brookings.edu/articles/corporal-punishment-schools-and-race-an-update/

https://www.morgan.edu/Documents/ACADEMIA/SCHOOLS/SSW/MSW%20publications/s12111-024-09646-9%20%281%29.pdf

https://web.archive.org/web/20160127213730/http://www.phoenixchildrens.org/sites/default/files/PDFs/principles_and_practices-of_effective_discipline.pdf

https://endcorporalpunishment.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/India.pdf

https://endcorporalpunishment.org/irelands-journey-why-didnt-we-do-this-years-ago/

https://link.springer.com/rwe/10.1007/978-3-319-89999-2_13

https://ijcrt.org/papers/IJCRT2506708.pdf

https://habevio.com/corporal-punishment-in-ancient-greece/

https://psycnet.apa.org/manuscript/2025-10635-001.pdf

https://web.archive.org/web/20110314161338/http://www.zona-pellucida.com/wilson02.html

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Margaret talks with Andrew Ti about the worldwide movement, backed by science, that is changing how we treat children.

Sources:

https://africapublicity.com/of-ancestors-and-amendments-rethinking-child-discipline-across-african-realms/
https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/happiest-countries-in-the-world
https://endcorporalpunishment.org/reports-on-every-state-and-territory/usa/
https://www.right-to-education.org/sites/right-to-education.org/files/resource-attachments/CRC_1989.pdf
https://www.ursulakleguin.com/blog?offset=1437445500607
https://www.puyallupwa.gov/535/Domestic-Violence-Statistics
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7390231/
https://issop.org/2018/11/19/e-bulletin-35-2-3-changing-the-law-on-corporal-punishment-in-scotland/
https://news.utexas.edu/2021/06/29/evidence-against-physically-punishing-kids-is-clear-researchers-say/
http://www.jillianvanturnhout.ie/jvt1111/
https://www.jstor.org/stable/26938757?seq=6
https://ijcrt.org/papers/IJCRT2506708.pdf
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/383296874_Corporal_Punishment_From_Ancient_History_to_Global_Progress
https://medium.com/@rabittashahbaz/heres-how-ancient-indian-parenting-values-and-approaches-changed-over-time-4d861b489388
https://www.europarl.europa.eu/cmsdata/180595/20090210ATT48998EN.pdf
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thirty-first_Amendment_of_the_Constitution_of_Ireland
https://brilliantmaps.com/corporal-punishment/
https://endcorporalpunishment.org/reports-on-every-state-and-territory/usa/
https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-29261462
https://agefinder.org/world-age-culture/marriage-age-under-18-countries/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._ratification_of_the_Convention_on_the_Rights_of_the_Child
https://www.africanexponent.com/how-colonialism-deceived-africans-to-believe-hitting-children-is-african-tradition-it-is-not/
https://www.unh.edu/ccrc/sites/default/files/media/2022-02/corporal-punishment-current-rates-from-a-national-survey.pdf

https://www.brookings.edu/articles/corporal-punishment-schools-and-race-an-update/

https://www.morgan.edu/Documents/ACADEMIA/SCHOOLS/SSW/MSW%20publications/s12111-024-09646-9%20%281%29.pdf

https://web.archive.org/web/20160127213730/http://www.phoenixchildrens.org/sites/default/files/PDFs/principles_and_practices-of_effective_discipline.pdf

https://endcorporalpunishment.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/India.pdf

https://endcorporalpunishment.org/irelands-journey-why-didnt-we-do-this-years-ago/

https://link.springer.com/rwe/10.1007/978-3-319-89999-2_13

https://ijcrt.org/papers/IJCRT2506708.pdf

https://habevio.com/corporal-punishment-in-ancient-greece/

https://psycnet.apa.org/manuscript/2025-10635-001.pdf

https://web.archive.org/web/20110314161338/http://www.zona-pellucida.com/wilson02.html

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This week, In The Belly is doing a take over to feature the poems of incarcerated writers in their own voices

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