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Please join us for Transpositive on KBOO Community Radio on Tuesday, September 3rd for Transpositive PDX.  We will discuss the recent Olympic controversy concerning boxer Imane Khelif.  For the second half of the show we will discuss the issue of transgender sex workers ... Read more

On this edition of Prison Pipeline: Healthcare Access and Barriers to Care Among People Incarcerated in US Prisons. Host Doug McVay is joined in conversation by Emily Lupez, MD, MPH, a General Medicine and Primary Care Research Fellow at Cambridge Health Alliance and Ha... Read more

Fortunato reaches out to listeners to show their support to KBOO with lots of music while relaxing by the pool for a Labor Day Monday. Featured artists today include Sarah Vaughin, Count Baisie, King Curtis, Ray Bryant, Lou Ann Morton, Earl Hooker, Cissy Huston, Junior B... Read more

A little known fact about oil and gas drilling is that a lot more comes up from the depths of the earth than just oil or gas. Much of this waste is toxic and radioactive. And the fracking boom has only worsened the problem. On this episode of Locus Focus we talk with Just... Read more

On August 29th, The Guardian reported on the billions of dollars rich countries such as the United States spend on false technological solutions to the climate crisis. For many scientists, the government subsidizing nuclear power is one notorious example. Jan Haaken talk... Read more

  Jon Nelson hosts this Labor Day episode of the Old Mole, which includes the following segments: Lessons from Labor History: Laurie Mercier speaks with Mary Anne Trasciatti, Director of Labor Studies and Professor of Rhetoric and Public Advocacy at Hofstra University... Read more

Analogous to the term blackface, yellowface means to color your face yellow in order to appear Asian. Metaphorically speaking, that’s exactly what protagonist Juniper Song does in the 2023 novel by Rebecca Kuang titled Yellowface. Book Mole Patricia Kullberg reviews this... Read more

Dr. Supatra Tovar is a clinical psychologist, registered dietitian and fitness expert who brings a compassionate and researched approach to diet, body image and health. Her new book is Deprogram Diet Culture: Rethink Your Relationship to Food, Heal Your Mind, and Live a ... Read more

Join us for Cascadia Coffeehouse this Friday morning as we share some great new music from The Honey Dewdrops, Gillian Welch & David Rawlings, Molly Tuttle & Golden Highway, AJ Lee & Blue Summit, Jody Stecher & Mile Twelve, Ordinary Elephant, Rakish, and others.  We'll a... Read more