The Second Page

This week: Stories about gender.

Galia Godel is a Philadelphia-based sex educator who works with adults with intellectual disabilities. She lives with her adorable polyamorous family and two cats.

Emma Anderson, aka Lance Mandible, lives in Greenfield Massachusetts, making tasty food and performing whenever possible, in drag and not.

Eric Michaels is a composer, aerialist, and ER nurse living in the Philadelphia area. He has 5 pet mammals and 5 pet string instruments, though this ratio was not planned.

Music by Podington Bear, Josh Woodward, Nine Inch Nails, Seán Hanson, and Eric Michaels.

This week: Stories about resolutions.

Harris Lapiroff is the founder of the Second Page, DC resident, and a restless spirit.

Emma Anderson lives in Greenfield, Massachusetts. She spends her time making delicious food, playing music and calling contra dances.

Michael Georgilis is an alum from Centre College class of 2010, and Northern Kentucky University 2017. A collector of books, tea, and folklore, he works in Cincinnati, Ohio to make textbooks cheaper for students everywhere.

Music by Podington Bear, Josh Woodward, and Seán Hanson. Special thanks to Adah Hetko.

This week: Stories about winter.

Aries Reyes is often found on top of a chair; toasting births and successes, introducing notable humans, barking orders, and celebrating life. In their working hours, they assist the good folks of our nation’s capital recover from their stressful lifestyles and/or shoulder slash hip issues. They are mostly a black Labrador puppy underneath this crumbly human disguise.

Amanda J. Lozada is a writer and performer working out of Boston, Massachusetts. She often plays music and tells stories under her alt(a/e)r ego, Lonesome Joan. She thinks you’re pretty nice for reading the performer bios.

Ari Goodman lives in Olympia, Washington where she measures how tall the water is and sometimes also how tall the mud is.

Emma Anderson lives in Greenfield, Massachusetts. She spends her time making delicious food, playing music and calling contra dances.

Music by Podington Bear, Josh Woodward, and Seán Hanson

This week: Stories about road trips.

Harris Lapiroff is the founder of the Second Page, DC resident, and a restless spirit.

Ruthie Byers is a dancer, fiddler, and software engineer living somewhere between Oakland, California and Somerville, Massachusetts.

Michael Georgilis is an alum from Centre College class of 2010, and Northern Kentucky University 2017. A collector of books, tea, and folklore, he works in Cincinnati, Ohio to make textbooks cheaper for students everywhere.

Seán Hanson is a software engineer living in Brooklyn, New York. When not programming, he’s speaking at conferences about diversity and inclusion, and co-editing this podcast.

Music by Podington Bear, Josh Woodward, and Seán Hanson

This week: Stories about gratitude.

Michael Georgilis is an alum from Centre College class of 2010, and Northern Kentucky University 2017. A collector of books, tea, and folklore, he works in Cincinnati, Ohio to make textbooks cheaper for students everywhere

Emma Anderson lives in Greenfield, Massachusetts. She spends her time making delicious food, playing music and calling contra dances.

Seán Hanson is a software engineer living in Brooklyn, New York. When not programming, he’s working on this podcast, writing snippets of incidental music, playing Javanese Gamelan, and thinking about queerness.

Music by Podington Bear, Josh Woodward, Nine Inch Nails Seán Hanson

This week: Stories about second chances.

Harris Lapiroff is founder of the Second Page, DC resident, and a restless spirit.

Amanda J. Lozada is a writer and performer working out of Boston, Massachusetts. She often plays music and tells stories under her alt(a/e)r ego, Lonesome Joan. She thinks you’re pretty nice for reading the performer bios.

Seán Hanson is a software engineer living in Brooklyn, New York. When not programming, he’s working on this podcast, writing snippets of incidental music, playing Javanese Gamelan, and thinking about queerness.

Michael Georgilis is an alum from Centre College class of 2010, and Northern Kentucky University 2017. A collector of books, tea, and folklore, he works in Cincinnati, Ohio to make textbooks cheaper for students everywhere.

Emma Anderson lives in Greenfield, Massachusetts. She spends her time making delicious food, playing music and calling contra dances.

Music by Podington Bear, Josh Woodward, Seán Hanson

A double episode this week: Stories about Monsters Under the Bed and stories about Coming Home.

Mike “on-a-bike” Rauscher is an Oberlin College alum from the class of 2011. Right now he is lying low in Cleveland with delusions of being a popular scholar of the internet.

Seán Hanson, Oberlin class of 2011, lives in Brooklyn, NY.

Hillary Carter, Oberlin class of 2009 and former writer for The Dead Hear Footsteps and Semi-Automatic Players, now resides in Columbia, Missouri.

Helen Chu-Hirschberg is currently moving homes from Fremont, CA to Lafayette, CA.

Emma Anderson is an Oberlin alum from the class of ‘09. She lives in Seattle and spends her time teaching kids about math, computers, and research skills.

Brandi Ferrebee is a 2010 graduate of Oberlin College. She’s living the adventure of returning home to the Shenandoah Valley, where she learns the old ways and sneaks off to the city to swing dance and discuss social justice.

Edward Underhill is an Oberlin Conservatory alum from the class of 2009. He lives in New York City and writes music.

Seán Hanson: Radio Loop

Nine Inch Nails: The Four of Us are Dying, Corona Radiata,

Podington Bear: Back Stairs, Graduation, Two Boys and a Girl, Chipper Dan, Curious Process

Josh Woodward: Breadcrumbs, Already There, Ashes

This week: Stories about background noise.

Michael Georgilis is an alum from Centre College class of 2010. A collector of stories, his thoughts are half Tolkien, half Lovecraft, all English-major. He works in Cincinnati, Ohio to make textbooks cheaper for students everywhere.

Hillary Carter, Oberlin class of 2009 and former writer for The Dead Hear Footsteps and Semi-Automatic Players, now resides in Columbia, Missouri.

Harris Lapiroff is your host.

Liz Landsman graduated from Oberlin College in 2009. She lives and creates illustrations, paintings, and comics in Seattle, Washington.

Seán Hanson is an Oberlin College alum, double-degree class of 2011. He currently lives in Brooklyn, New York.

Ray Gergen, Oberlin College class of 2010, is an aspiring storyteller and wandering lost soul. They currently reside in a shared room in a dorm on a Deaf university.

Naomi Morduch Toubman, Ness Smith-Savedoff, Hillary Carter, Liz Landsman, Christopher Jacoby (listen to his musical composition), Emma Anderson,

Kirk Pearson: Radiator Song, A Stitch in Time

Podington Bear: Sneaker Chase

Josh Woodward: Of Dark Rooms and Crooked Candles

Zoë Keating: Lost

Seán Hanson: Trio

This week: Stories about missed connections and stories from the cutting room floor.

Hilary Carter is an Oberlin College graduate from the class of 2009 and The Second Page’s most consistent contributor.

Lucy Potter graduated from UC Davis with the indecisive double major of biology and classics. She spends her spare time day dreaming.

Mike “on-a-bike” Rauscher is an Oberlin College alum from the class of 2011. Right now he is lying low in Cleveland with delusions of being a popular scholar of the internet.

Jerry Lapiroff lives in Berkeley California with a constant collection of fine cheeses.

Alyssa Zullinger is an Oberlin College graduate from the class of 2010. She lives in Delaware.

Christin Anderson is an Oberlin College senior living in SEED house this year, and is majoring in biology and environmental studies.

Podington Bear: Buddy Guy, Guestlist, Twinkie

Josh Woodward: Little Tomcat, Postcard From Hell

Nine Inch Nails: 18 Ghosts II, 13 Ghosts III

Seán Hanson: Trio

This week: stories about being in transit.

Ray Gergen is an white, queer, femme oberlin alum from the class of 2010. Her favorite color is green and she hopes you have a fantastic day.

Michael Georgilis is an alum from Centre College class of 2010. A collector of stories, his thoughts are half Tolkien, half Lovecraft, all English-major. He works in Cincinnati, Ohio to make textbooks cheaper for students everywhere.

Anita Peebles is a junior Religion and Environmental Studies major from Michigan. (She loves sunshine, kittens and reading poetry.)

Alyssa Zullinger graduated from Oberlin College in 2010. She currently lives in Delaware.

Daniel Tam-Claiborne is a graduate of Oberlin College and served as a Shansi Fellow in Taigu, China from 2009-2011. “I Won’t Be Home for Christmas, Again” is one of twenty-two short stories featured in his debut novel What Never Leaves, published in 2012 by Wilder Voice Press. He is currently pursuing a Master’s degree in International Relations at Yale University and can be reached at [email protected].

Helen Chu-Hirschberg teaches English Language development in Fremont California. She is an artist and a first generation Chinese-American.

Hillary Carter is Oberlin class of 2009 and former writer for The Dead Hear Footsteps and Semi-Automatic Players, now resides in Columbia, Missouri.

Podington Bear (Origami), Nine Inch Nails (The Four Of Us Are Dying, 18 Ghosts II, Echoplex), Josh Woodward (Let It In, Ashes), Kirk Pearson (Omelette)

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