A Life in Stories
Jess Clarke tells stories from their life and talks with other imagineers working toward liberation: personal, social, political and spiritual.
Clarke's autobiographical stories track the narrator’s evolution from a shy, crewcut Catholic kid into a radical androgynous activist who participates in the social and political changes of their era.
- Update frequency
- every day
- Average duration
- 20 minutes
- Episodes
- 7
- Years Active
- 2025
In the Big House
My father dumps my mother for a beautiful woman. Then he makes a big mistake–he marries her. I’m ripped out of my androgynous hippie life in Washington DC and arrive at a decrepit southern mansion in…
00:18:32 |
Tue 09 Sep 2025
A Good Sin
I confront the challenge of choosing a new saint’s name in the confirmation ceremony of the Catholic Church. The saints I most admire are Joan of Arc and St. Bridget. The nuns at the school often cho…
00:23:31 |
Sat 30 Aug 2025
Mother from Another… (Planet)
At 13 years old, I head to Mendocino California to try and reconnect with my mother. She used to be a straight, uptight, Catholic, Montessori teacher and is now an acid-dropping free love hippie sha…
00:18:47 |
Thu 28 Aug 2025
Going My Way?
Every day after school I have to hitchhike across Howard County Maryland to get back to my father’s hippy haven mansion. As a femme-looking teenager who can be seen as a girl or a boy, this is no sim…
00:14:09 |
Wed 27 Aug 2025
Riding Red
Trapped in KKK Maryland with no friends, I am completely miserable. My step-sister gets a horse from her father and the story takes a turn as two lonely animals sort out a way of connecting. Performe…
00:22:31 |
Tue 26 Aug 2025
Nim Chimpsky
Working as a lab assistant at the Columbia University Psychology Department, I’m called to work on a unique project: chimp-proofing a mansion at the Delafield Estate in Riverdale Professor Terrace is…
00:17:39 |
Mon 25 Aug 2025
War Criminal
I confront a 20th century war criminal who is offered an “endowed chair” at Columbia University. Former Secretary of State and National Security Advisor Henry Kissinger must endure the gauntlet of …
00:30:49 |
Sun 24 Aug 2025
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