Dessa appears in the following:
Heartbreakers: Free Will or Just, Like, Pretty Cheap Will?
Wednesday, May 31, 2017
How much choosing are we really doing when we select a mate? Dessa wraps her series mixing art, music and research on love, sex and coupling.
Heartbreakers: Forever? Forever-ever?
Wednesday, May 24, 2017
When a relationship ends, where should we keep all the feels? Dessa continues her series mixing art, music and research on love, sex and coupling.
Heartbreakers: From the Bottom of My Brain
Wednesday, May 17, 2017
After a baaaad break-up, Dessa assembles a team of researchers, neuroscientists and a clinician to remove the lingering love from her brain.
Heartbreakers: Of Mice and Men
Thursday, May 11, 2017
Rapper and essayist Dessa launched her series with an exploration of how research on voles might reveal a genetic basis for monogamy in humans.
Rapper Dessa Darling's Musical Sweet Spot
Tuesday, December 06, 2016
Minneapolis-based rapper, singer and writer Dessa Darling discusses the inspiration for her work.
Madonna Week: 'Ray Of Light' Revisited; Madonna In Detroit; Dessa Plays Live
Thursday, September 19, 2013
In this episode: NPR Music’s Ann Powers joins us for a deep dive into Madonna’s 1998 album Ray of Light.
Plus: In 1984, Detroit News reporter Susan Whitall interviewed Madonna about growing up in Michigan. Thirty years later, Whitall -- who still works for the Detroit News as a music, features, and entertainment writer -- reflects on that interview with Madonna early on in her career.
And: Minneapolis rapper and singer Dessa — of the independent hip hop collective Doomtree — embraces a melodic side on her latest album Parts Of Speech. Hear her perform in the Soundcheck studio.
