Women

Breaking Down Poverty's Barriers: An Interview with Dr. Donna Beegle

Poverty is more than a lack of resources. It creates barriers that isolate the poor from the rest of the community and from opportunities to break free from its grip. That isolation also extends to having a voice in research and program development for breakding down povert... Read more

Trans & Womyn's Action Camp 2009 Needs Workshops!

Trans & Womyn's Action Camp 2009 Needs Workshops! author: TWAC e-mail: twac@riseup.net We are happy to announce that there will also be a Trans' and Womyn's Action Camp gathering of eco-activists, who are also working to bring down patriarchy. This will be a 6 day training... Read more

Profile of Brooks Nelson, Guest on 1/27 Gender Blender

I recently profiled Brooks Nelson in my TransNation column. Brooks is a Portland, Oregon filmmaker and a guest on tonight's show, where we will be discussing his new documentary, Switch: A Community in Transition. Here's more about Brooks from TransNation,which appeared... Read more

Chapter two!

If you're intending to start from the start, go to the previous post. In this chapter, we meet the Bun, who have just arrived at our planet.... TWO Third Galactic Commander Blarg looked doubtfully at the Saint Peter Autoglow Respondomatic Human Deception Suit as it hung in... Read more

Dirty Burly Bitch Show THIS Fri Jan 23

Dirty Burly Bitch Show Because independent media is sexy! What do you get when combine professional burlesque with a dirty open mic? A great show and a benefit to help keepBitch Magazine going strong! Join the lovely and talented Sahara Dunes, of Burly Girl Productions, and ... Read more

December 27th - Playlist Spotlight

Bridget B. here, I really enjoy, listening to and playing for you, international music, which I strive to convey in the first hour of An Evening of Afrotainment. My professional work as an event producer has taken me to many countries and I always take pause to inhale the ... Read more

Between the Covers

Airs at: Mon, 12/22/2008 at 4:00pm

Produced for: Between The Covers

Host Ed Goldberg interviews local author Jill Kelly, whose memoir of alcoholism and recovery is called Sober Truths: the Making of an Honest Woman. Kelly's demons did not go quietly when she put the bottle down. Loneliness, anxiety, distrust of others-they were all still th... Read more

Bread & Roses Show January 9, 2009 ~ Two Women Writers: Keepers of History

I'll be interviewing two local women writers, Anjala Ehelebe author of Images of America: Portland's Woodlawn Neighborhood and Jewel Lansing author of My Montana: A History and Memoir - 1930-1950. Anjala takes us through a historic accounting of the Woodlawn neighborhood w... Read more

Gender & Religion Part II

Airs at: Mon, 12/15/2008 at 4:00pm

Produced for: Gender Blender

This episode of Gender Blender addressed religion/spirituality and gender. During this second half of the two part 1 hour show, hosts Rebecca Nay and Jacob Anderson-Minshall were joined in studio by Reverend Nathan Meckley, Senior Pastor at Portland Oregon's MCC, and Revere... Read more

In Other Words Bookstore May Close

Airs at: Wed, 12/10/2008 at 12:00am

Produced for: Evening News

Portland's venerable In Other Words Bookstore, the nation's final nonprofit feminist bookstore and resource center may be forced to close if it does not raise $3,000 in the next three weeks. In Other Words Women's Books and Resources is the last surviving non-profit femin... Read more