Episodes

  • The Goodbye Show

    The Goodbye Show
    Apr 27 2023
    In their final episode, Invisibilia searches for the right way to say goodbye.

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    50 mins
  • Revisiting Love and Lapses: A Conversation with Code Switch host B.A. Parker

    Revisiting Love and Lapses: A Conversation with Code Switch host B.A. Parker
    Dec 16 2022
    Sometimes the holidays are filled with the people you love. Other times, they're marked by an absence. In this special holiday episode, new Code Switch co-host and former Invisibilia producer B.A. Parker tells a story about family, loss and preserving memories before it's too late. Then Parker joins Kia and Yowei to reflect on the making of this story, and what it means to her now.

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    33 mins
  • Power Tools

    Power Tools
    Oct 7 2022
    Bad bosses. Obnoxious coworkers. Unfair compensation. There are so many reasons people feel disempowered in the workplace. But how can our feelings about power enable or disrupt the larger dynamics we hate at work? This week, Yowei Shaw seeks answers from a power researcher and a union organizer.

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    35 mins
  • Freedom Diving

    Freedom Diving
    Sep 30 2022
    After months of working from home and retreating from the world, Kia Miakka Natisse is stuck - in her house, and in her head. In an attempt to break out of the funk, she's searching for wisdom at the bottom of the ocean with South Africa's first Black freediving instructor, Zandile Ndhlovu.

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    33 mins
  • Therapy Ghostbusters

    Therapy Ghostbusters
    Sep 23 2022
    In San Jose, California, a community clinic was stumped as to why their clients were seeing ghosts. This week, a story about grappling with ghosts of our past and one clinic's attempt to heal intergenerational trauma.

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    48 mins
  • A Little Bit Pregnant

    A Little Bit Pregnant
    Sep 16 2022
    This week on Invisibilia, could the rebrand of a familiar pill open up a new way to control fertility in a post-Roe America?

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    28 mins
  • The P-Word

    The P-Word
    Sep 9 2022
    Alex is a comic who feels perfectly comfortable commanding a packed, rowdy audience, but consistently submits to what other people want in everyday life. This week, a look at how uncomfortable feelings about power can backfire on ourselves and the people we love. We get the help of a power expert - a dominatrix - to untangle Alex's power dynamics, and find out what it takes to treat a power allergy.

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    42 mins
  • Invisibilia Takes Control

    Invisibilia Takes Control
    Sep 6 2022
    2022 feels like walking a tightrope. We're grappling with control of our bodies, our time, the direction of our country - while trying to not spin out and just doomscroll. So this season, Invisibilia takes on control. The narratives we have about what's in or out of our control. Invisible tools of control. The crutches we use to FEEL in control but that might not be helping.

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    2 mins