Aisha Harris is a cultural critic and co-host for NPR’s Pop Culture Hour, and she’s out with a new book, titled <a href="https://www.harpercollins.com/products/wannabe-aisha-harris?variant=40679574437922">Wannabe: Reckonings With The Pop Culture That Shapes Me.</a> Today, she joins us for the hour, discussing the ways early influences shape her role today as critic, including her upbringing in Connecticut. What popular song, movie or TV show marks a moment in your life, or stuck with you? GUESTS: <ul> <li><a href="https://www.npr.org/people/912788259/aisha-harris">Aisha Harris:</a> Co-Host, NPR's Pop Culture Hour; Author, Wannabe: Reckonings with the Pop Culture That Shapes Me</li> </ul><a href="http://wnpr.org/donate" rel="payment">Support the show: http://wnpr.org/donate</a>See <a href="https://omnystudio.com/listener">omnystudio.com/listener</a> for privacy information.

Unpacking the debate around LGBTQ studies in secondary and elementary schools

Produced by Connecticut Public, 'Where We Live' puts Connecticut in context. Host Catherine Shen brings us fascinating, informed, in-depth conversations and stories beyond news headlines.  We start local, but we take time to explore domestic and international issues and consider how they impact us personally and here at home.