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Riding the waves of feminism: a conversation with scholar Bettina Aptheker
From: Suki Wessling
Series: The Babblery
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Noted feminist scholar Bettina Aptheker explores the dawning of her feminist consciousness in waves. Daughter of a communist, Aptheker had to throw...

  • Added: Mar 25, 2024
  • Length: 57:00
Trying not to do damage: The Student Free Speech Movement with Bettina Aptheker
From: Suki Wessling
Series: Babblery Minibabbles
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In this short episode, feminist scholar Bettina Aptheker talks about the reasons for her iconic speech atop a police car and the impact of the Stud...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Mar 25, 2024
  • Length: 08:10
  • Purchases: 1
Between The Lines Radio Newsmagazine for March 15, 2023
From: Scott Harris
Series: Between The Lines Radio Newsmagazine
Caption: Timely, In Depth Progressive Analysis Since 1991
This week's summary of under-reported news followed by these interviews: GOP Pushes Laws Targeting LGBTQ Community, Trans Youth & Drag Shows; Rep...

Bought by WFHB and WETS


  • Added: Mar 16, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Passion for politics in 'Paul for Pete'
From: Out in the Bay - Queer Radio from San Francisco
Caption: 2020 presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg in January 2020 at a supporter’s home in Denver, Colorado., Credit: Leslie Ginsburg
With crucial midterm elections underway, how can individuals make an impact? “Paul for Pete” author Paul Mason Barnes, a key volunteer on Pete Butt...

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  • Added: Oct 05, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
StoryCorps: Ronni Gilboa and Patrick Haggerty
From: StoryCorps
Caption: Faygele ben Miriam at his last Seder before his death in 2000., Credit: Courtesy of the University of Washington Library, Geoff Manasse special collection.
Patrick Haggerty and his friend, Ronni Gilboa, remember their friend, Faygele ben Miriam, a gay rights trailblazer who fought against workplace dis...

Bought by KRVS and KZMU Moab Community Radio


  • Added: Sep 22, 2022
  • Length: 02:56
  • Purchases: 2
How should students learn about gender and sexual identity? What role should schools play?
From: Ken Futernick
Series: Courageous Conversations About Our Schools
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The central questions guiding this podcast episode are this: What role should schools play regarding policies, instruction, and classroom discussio...

  • Added: Jun 23, 2022
  • Length: 49:59
SCOTUS abortion case leak shows queer rights at risk too
From: Out in the Bay - Queer Radio from San Francisco
Caption: Out in the Bay's federal courts analyst details how the US Supreme Court's anticipated decision in Mississippi abortion case jeopardizes LGBTQ rights., Credit: Courtesy ACLU/AP
How deeply are LGBTQ civil liberties threatened by abortion cases now before the conservative-led U.S. Supreme Court? Federal courts journalist Lis...

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  • Added: May 06, 2022
  • Length: 29:30
  • Purchases: 1
Between The Lines Radio Newsmagazine for April 20, 2022
From: Scott Harris
Series: Between The Lines Radio Newsmagazine
Caption: Timely, In-Depth Progressive Analysis Since 1991
This week's summary of under-reported news followed by these interviews: Russia’s War in Ukraine Exposes U.S. Double Standards in International Law...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, RADIOLEX, and WETS


  • Added: Apr 20, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
Florida’s misguided new “Don’t Say Gay” law
From: Media for the Public Good, Inc. - OutCasting Media
Series: OutCasting Overtime
Caption: OutCaster Tomás
April 1, 2022 – Are schools actually "grooming centers of gender identity radicals"? And what do Florida Republicans mean by “grooming,” anyway — ...

  • Added: Mar 31, 2022
  • Length: 09:15
Decolonizing Dewey
From: Brooklyn Public Library
Series: "Borrowed" Podcast from Brooklyn Public Library
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A lot had changed since Melvil Dewey came up with a classification system to organize all known and not-yet-known knowledge into a string of number...

Bought by Northeast Indiana Public Radio


  • Added: Feb 28, 2022
  • Length: 24:50
  • Purchases: 1
UPDATED AUDIO: Freedom for Women Requires Abolition Feminism: Suzanne Pharr & Beth Richie
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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In 2022, the U.S. Supreme Court could overturn Roe v Wade, imperiling all women’s freedoms, and creating a new pipeline to prison for the vulnerabl...

Bought by KWMR, RadioFreePalmer, KDNK, KMUN, and WNYE


  • Added: Jan 19, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 5
Don’t ‘pray away the gay’ - we’re ‘Born Perfect’
From: Out in the Bay - Queer Radio from San Francisco
Caption: Freedom March, a current “ex-gay” group, co-opts queer imagery and holds rallies against conversion therapy bans. Cropped film still from “Pray Away” documentary., Credit: Multitude Films/Netflix
Canada's nationwide ban on conversion therapy took effect January 7. Why no national ban in the US? Despite clear evidence that conversion therapy ...

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  • Added: Jan 07, 2022
  • Length: 29:30
  • Purchases: 1
When LGBTQ people are politically conservative
From: Media for the Public Good, Inc. - OutCasting Media
Series: OutCasting Overtime
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OutCaster Tim considers why many LGBTQ conservatives don’t feel at home in the LGBTQ community.

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  • Added: Dec 31, 2021
  • Length: 09:16
  • Purchases: 1
Black Women In History
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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While Black women have played a critical role in the development of the nation, their stories have been mostly overlooked. In the new book, A Black...

Bought by KALW, RadioStPete Florida, KUHF, KUT, High Plains Public Radio and more


  • Added: Sep 22, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 7
Angelic Troublemaker: Bayard Rustin
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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On today's program we honor Bayard Rustin, one of the most central figures in the African American struggle for Civil Rights and Freedom. Rustin wa...

Bought by WXDU and C89.5 - KNHC Seattle


  • Added: Jun 09, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
New York city elections 2021: Kristin Richardson Jordan and Art Chang
From: Ray Samuels
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Kristin Richardson Jordan is our featured LGBTQ candidate.

  • Added: Jun 05, 2021
  • Length: 58:00
NYC mayoral candidates Paperboy Love Prince and Stacey Prussman plus author Sam Kumar
From: Ray Samuels
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Paperboy Love Prince, Stacey Prussman (New York City mayoral candidates and author Sam Kumar. Paperboy Love Prince discusses LGBTQ issues.

  • Added: Jun 03, 2021
  • Length: 58:01
The Write Question - Andrea Abi-Karam and Kay Gabriel Part 2
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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Poets and curators Andrea Abi-Karam and Kay Gabriel continue to discuss the anthology "We Want It All: An Anthology of Radical Trans Poetics," a co...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio and Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: Feb 10, 2021
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 2
The Keepers: Archiving the Now with Host Frances McDormand
From: The Kitchen Sisters
Series: The Keepers
Caption: Host, Frances McDormand, Credit: Alison Rosa
The Keepers: Archiving the Now — a new hour-long special from The Kitchen Sisters and PRX with host, Academy Award-winner Frances McDormand. Storie...

Bought by Prairie Public, WJCT, WABE, WNMU-FM, WCQS and more


  • Added: Nov 24, 2020
  • Length: 54:25
  • Purchases: 70
F-Word: If the President Had HIV He Could Be in Prison
From: Laura Flanders
Series: The F-Word: Laura Flanders' Bi-Weekly Commentary
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"Could Donald Trump be charged with a crime for knowingly exposing others to an infectious disease? He could if that disease was hepatitis. If th...

  • Added: Oct 06, 2020
  • Length: 04:00
Activism and The Fight for Black Trans Lives
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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On this episode of Making Contact, we will look at transgender activism and the call for inclusion and intersectionality in the movement for Black ...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, WXDU, KZMU Moab Community Radio, and KDNK


  • Added: Aug 19, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 5
From Another Country: Bill Mullen on James Baldwin’s Revolutionary Life
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
Caption: James Baldwin on the water of the Golden Horn, Istanbul © Sedat Pakay 1965. , Credit: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture.
In his book Mullen shows how Baldwin’s life is “a bracing testimonial to being the first African-American radical to make his sexuality an integral...

  • Added: Aug 04, 2020
  • Length: 59:19
August 2020 – Black Lives Matter protest
From: Media for the Public Good, Inc. - OutCasting Media
Series: OutCasting Overtime
Caption: Woman holding a rainbow flag with BLM, Credit: OutCaster Justin
Gay teenager attends a Black Lives Matter protest in a suburb of NYC.

  • Added: Jul 31, 2020
  • Length: 08:15
Between The Lines Radio Newsmagazine for June 24, 2020
From: Scott Harris
Series: Between The Lines Radio Newsmagazine
Caption: Timely, In-Depth Progressive Analysis Since 1991
This week's summary of under-reported news followed by these interviews: Supreme Court’s LGBTQ+ Nondiscrimination Ruling Not a Substitute for Amend...

Bought by WKPW and KMXT


  • Added: Jun 24, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
OutCasting 0072 - The Covid-19 and AIDS pandemics - Part 1
From: Media for the Public Good, Inc. - OutCasting Media
Series: OutCasting
Caption: Jay Blotcher and OutCaster Lucas, Credit: Jay Blotcher photo by Bill Bytsura
The Covid-19 and AIDS epidemics - similarities and notable differences

Bought by RADIOLEX, WGHC-LP 98.3 FM Chicago, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, and Radio Catskill


  • Added: Apr 30, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 4