To Cry or Not To Cry (by Yowei Shaw)

Yowei experiments with grief and a particular problem she had after getting laid off. 

Yowei Shaw is a podcast journalist, host, producer, and editor who spent several years making NPR's Invisibilia podcast, first as a producer, then as co-host and editorial lead. Her work has also been featured in This American Life and Pop Up Magazine and honored with a Third Coast Documentary Award, a National Press Club Award and a United States Artists fellowship.

To Cry or Not To Cry was produced for Circuit 01. Original companion illustration (below) by Wendy MacNaughton.