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Disability Solidarity with TL Lewis

Airs at: Fri, 01/06/2017 at 6:00pm - 7:00pm
Produced for:  Bread and Roses
This week we're talking to social justice engineer, activist-attorney, and founder of HEARD (Helping Educate to Advance the Rights of Deaf Communities), Talila "TL" Lewis. We talk about deafness and disability in relation to the school-to-prison pipeline, disability solida... Read more

A Look Back on 2016

Airs at: Fri, 12/30/2016 at 6:00pm - 7:00pm
Produced for:  Bread and Roses
To close out the year, we'll play some memorable moments from 2016 episodes, including Danica Brown on transformative direct action at Standing Rock, Leslie Gregory on racism as a public health threat, Kiki Nicole with Unchaste Readers on erasure with their blackout poetry ... Read more

Before I Do

Airs at: Wed, 12/28/2016 at 11:00am - 11:30am
Produced for:  Recovery Zone
  Recovery Zone is off today, instead we present this special Radiozine program: In her first book, Before I Do, leading gay rights attorney Elizabeth F. Schwartz spells out the range of practical considerations couples should address before tying the knot. She explores t... Read more

John Waters' Christmas

Airs at: Thu, 12/22/2016 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  The Film Show
  For the holiday season, we chat with notorious filmmaker John Waters, who's bringing his annual Christmas show to Portland once again.  Waters has spent the past half-century directing such transgressive films as Pink Flamingos, Hairspray, and Serial Mom, and is also the... Read more

Wendy Doniger, Redeeming the Kamasutra

Airs at: Mon, 12/26/2016 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Progressive Spirit
The Kamasutra brings to mind (and to Google searches) erotic and exotic sexual positions.   OK, it is that.  But it is much more.  It is about the art of living.   Wendy Doniger, Mircea Eliade Distinguished Service Professor of the History of Religions at the University of ... Read more

Queer Politics and Survival: present, past, and....?

Airs at: Tue, 12/13/2016 at 6:00pm - 7:00pm
Produced for:  Preference
Snapshots of queer struggles for dignity and safety, in America: We'll hear a series of audio pieces by Jason T. Ingram, a Portland area artist and musician who stared down religious conservatism in the harshest possible way - by attending gay conversion therapy, in the Sou... Read more

Bread and Roses

Airs at: Fri, 12/02/2016 at 6:00pm - 7:00pm
Produced for:  Bread and Roses
Blind illustratrix Sabine Rear and artist with invisible disabilities Arianna Warner talk about crip identity, culture, and comics. Look at what it means to have art and culture about disability produced and archived by disability community. Read more

The Aftermath . . .

Airs at: Fri, 12/02/2016 at 12:00am - 3:00am
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Grappling with VP-elect Mike Pence's religious-based bigotry; and an interview with John Waters!

Airs at: Tue, 11/29/2016 at 6:00pm - 7:00pm
Produced for:  Preference
We'll be talking with Indiana queer activist JJ Gufreda about Mike Pence, Vice-President-elect, and his history of anti-LGBTQ legislation and actions as Indiana governor, and in the years prior to his taking office. There's a lengthy list of ways that Pence has found, to ma... Read more

World AIDS Day 2016

Airs at: Mon, 11/28/2016 at 8:00am - 9:00am
Produced for:  More Talk Radio
  Hosts Cecil and Celeste will discuss the impact of HIV/AIDS in recognition of World AIDS Day.  Bethel A.M.E. and Sankofa Collective NW in partnership with community partners is holding Remember, Reflect, Reaffirm: Annual World AIDS Day Observance. They'll share informati... Read more