895: Label Maker!

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Labels and the havoc they wreak.

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Labels are powerful. They can distill you down to a single word.
They can get stuck on you without your permission. And sometimes,
when they get taken away, they can upend your entire life. On
this episode: labels and the havoc they wreak.

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(00:00:00) Prologue: Sara and Ethan have been dating for 10
months. They see each other at least once a week, text pretty
much every day, and have been there for each other through hard
times. But they refuse to have the “what are we?” conversation.
So what gives? Guest host Tobin Low looks into it. (5
minutes)

(00:05:14) Act One: Last week, when Temporary Protected Status,
also known as TPS, was cut off for Haitian immigrants, some
300,000 people had their lives upended. Marie, a Certified
Nursing Assistant in Boston, was one of them. Producer Chana
Joffe-Walt spent time last week with Marie as she tried to figure
out exactly when her very last day on the job would be. (21
minutes)

(00:27:57) Act Two: Comedian Janet McNamara was walking off stage
15 years ago when the club owner asked, “Hey, have you ever been
tested for autism?” No one had ever asked her this before, so
Janet decided to look into it. (17 minutes)

(00:44:01) Act Three: When you get down to it, labels are just
our way of pointing out what we think is remarkable about other
people. That’s Alfred Jung Lee’s argument. He’s been thinking a
lot about how we describe each other, especially as he tries to
describe his wife, who passed away from cancer. (10 minutes)

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