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Strong-armed
From: Neena Pathak
Caption: Danni Jesudowich and Paul McClanahan instruct Keely Ahlstrom on how to shoot a full vent ribbed 20 gauge Benelli semi-automatic shotgun with adjustable chokes.
The National Rifle Association started its Women on Target program in 2000. According to their website, they’ve trained over eighty thousand women...

Bought by KUER and New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: May 27, 2013
  • Length: 07:31
  • Purchases: 2
From This Point On
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
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Joanna Foster was worried when her first deaf child was born. When her second baby was born deaf and autistic, she was devastated. Joanna started l...

Bought by KVNF


  • Added: Mar 27, 2013
  • Length: 07:12
  • Purchases: 1
A Parsi in America: Diana's Story
From: Christine Beaderstadt
Series: Indian Ornamentation and Globalization
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Ethnically Parsi, Diana grew up in the Indian state of Maharashtra, and went to boarding school there. She talks about how she and her family have ...

  • Added: Feb 23, 2013
  • Length: 03:09
Judy Sorum, Glowing Stained Glass
From: KSRQ
Caption: Pink and Yellow Lady Slippers
Judy Sorum constructs beautiful glowing stained glass panels.

  • Added: Feb 09, 2013
  • Length: 23:11
Culturology: Dan Sinykin reviews "The Long Shining Waters" by Danielle Sosin
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Culturology
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Danielle Sosin's novel, "The Long Shining Waters," tells three stories of three women living around the shores of Lake Superior in three distinct t...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio and KSRQ


  • Added: Jan 17, 2013
  • Length: 02:58
  • Purchases: 2
Fatima Learns to Drive
From: Sarah Bromer
Caption: Fatima and Her Daughter, Rana
Fatima Alsamawi, a recent immigrant to the United States from Iraq, experiences the sweet freedom of driving for the first time.

Bought by PRX Remix and New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Jan 02, 2013
  • Length: 04:42
  • Purchases: 2
Forty Years of Feminist Books
From: Cassie Wagler
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The oldest feminist bookstore in the country closes, after over 40 years in business.

  • Added: Dec 29, 2012
  • Length: 04:39
A Fish Tale
From: Emily Hsiao
Caption: Taxidermist Janet Messineo in her basement workshop, Credit: Emily Hsiao
Janet Messineo is a taxidermist on Martha's Vineyard. But you won't find any deer heads or bears in her workshop--just lots and lots of fish.

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis and KUT


  • Added: Dec 05, 2012
  • Length: 04:43
  • Purchases: 2
WONDER WOMEN! THE UNTOLD STORY OF AMERICAN SUPERHEROINES -- Kristy Guevera-Flanagan Interview
From: Andrea Chase
Series: Behind the Scenes
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Kristy Guevera-Flanagan talks the terrors of truth, the progressive nature of soap operas, and why it took a woman writer to get Wonder Woman out o...

  • Added: Nov 29, 2012
  • Length: 21:10
The Mikie Show #56, Jane
From: Michael Carroll
Series: The Mikie Show
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Well, well, here we are again. Another episode hits the airwaves or cyber-lanes, whichever you like, we’re there for you! We’re all the way up to e...

  • Added: Nov 07, 2012
  • Length: 28:02
Romantic Red Love, But Not in Sweden
From: Third Coast International Audio Festival
Series: 2012 ShortDocs: Neighbor Stories
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With the couple next door constantly fighting and my friends failed marriages in good memory I started to wonder why Sweden seems to fail in loving...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jul 24, 2012
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 1
Justice in the Home: Domestic Workers Re-define the Labor Movement
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Domestic workers in Texas., Credit: Flickr user: Nuevo Anden
With the passage of New York’s Domestic Workers Bill of Rights in 2010, workers are now organizing in California and other states to win basic righ...

  • Added: Apr 04, 2012
  • Length: 29:01
Oakland clinic offers free, alternative medicine to women with cancer
From: KALW
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Cancer treatments can leave a patient in intense pain, or cause nausea, fatigue, and loss of appetite. For people with low incomes or without healt...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio and New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 11, 2012
  • Length: 04:31
  • Purchases: 2
The Light Inside: Giving Birth Behind Bars
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Incarcerated mother in Decatur Prison’s Nursery Program and Reunification Unit. , Credit: Photo courtesy of Shannon Heffernan http://www.timeontheoutside.com/prison-nursery
A look at pregnancy, and motherhood, inside US jails and prisons. What does the huge number of incarcerated women in prison foretell for the next ...

  • Added: Feb 27, 2012
  • Length: 29:00
The Mikie Show #45, Mary
From: Michael Carroll
Series: The Mikie Show
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It’s a new episode the The Mikie Show! This time around we speak with Mary Hartman, PhD. A former dean of Douglass University, she is at the forefr...

Bought by KUT


  • Added: Dec 07, 2011
  • Length: 28:03
  • Purchases: 1
The New Girl Scouts
From: With Good Reason
Series: news features
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Just shy of their 100th birthday, the Girl Scouts are working to shed their cookie and campfire image with new badges that focus on skills like rob...

Bought by KENW, Radio Newark, WRST-FM Oshkosh, and New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Nov 04, 2011
  • Length: 02:32
  • Purchases: 4
A San Francisco sanctuary for artists
From: KALW
Caption: SFWA weaver Aiko Kobayashi Gray at the American Craft Week Celebration., Credit: Photo courtesy of the SF Women Artists Gallery
If you’ve ever been to Ghirardelli Square, then you’ve probably seen the mermaid fountain that’s right in the middle. Would you have guessed it was...

  • Added: Oct 31, 2011
  • Length: 05:00
A Child's View of Domestic Violence by Valencia McMurray of MPR News
From: YouthCast
Caption: Valencia and her mother, Charlene, Credit: MPR Photo/Jeffrey Thompson
For fourteen years, a singular event has shaped Valencia McMurray's life: her mother, Charlene Sanders, was violently attacked by her father when s...

Bought by WGXC


  • Added: Aug 14, 2011
  • Length: 09:54
  • Purchases: 1
Prison Doulas-Supporting Pregnant Women Behind Bars
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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For most women, the way their pregnancy, labor, and recuperation is handled by the correctional system has a lot to be desired. But there are some...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio and KUOW


  • Added: Mar 30, 2011
  • Length: 09:35
  • Purchases: 2
The Light Inside: Giving Birth Behind Bars
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: http://www.timeontheoutside.com, Credit: Shannon Heffernan
A look at pregnancy, and motherhood, inside US jails and prisons. What does the huge number of incarcerated women in prison foretell for the next g...

  • Added: Mar 30, 2011
  • Length: 29:00
Oakland takes Quan-tum leap with new mayor
From: KALW
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When Jean Quan began campaigning to be the mayor of Oakland, she promised to clean up Oakland’s neighborhoods and improve the city’s schools. Quan’...

  • Added: Mar 16, 2011
  • Length: 05:41
Producer Profile: Diane E. Benson and Jonathon Stanton
From: Vision Maker Media
Series: Native Producer Profile
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Ben Kreimer speaks with Diane E. Benson and Jonathon Stanton, about their films incorporating Alaska Natives and their efforts to overcome harsh Al...

Bought by KBBI Alaska and KMXT


  • Added: Mar 10, 2011
  • Length: 27:55
  • Purchases: 2
Producer Profile: Diane E. Benson
From: Vision Maker Media
Series: Native Producer Profile
Caption: Diane E. Benson
Reporter Ben Kreimer speaks with Diane E. Benson (Tlingit). She is an actress in the film For the Rights of All: Ending Jim Crow in Alaska.

Bought by KSTK


  • Added: Feb 08, 2011
  • Length: 15:29
  • Purchases: 1
Following Harriet Tubman
From: Andrew Hiller
Series: Andrew Hiller's News Features
Caption: The Bucktown Village Store where Harriet Tubman received a head injury that would impact her entire life, Credit: courtesy of Andrew Hiller
This feature explores the life and some of the myths of Harriet Tubman with interviews by experts from Cambridge, MD, the town where "Moses" was bo...

Bought by WHCP-LP Cambridge, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, and KUOW


  • Added: Jan 24, 2011
  • Length: 06:16
  • Purchases: 3
Introduction: youth and gender
From: Y-Press
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Gender roles don’t seem to have quite the pull they used to have. In 2008, the U.S. came close to having a woman in the Oval Office. Engineering sc...

  • Added: Jan 04, 2011
  • Length: 02:53

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