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Happy IWD! Memoirs of a trans bus driver

Airs at: Thu, 03/08/2018 at 9:00am - 10:00am
I was a bus driver for nearly twenty years.  In 2001, I walked into my bosses' office and announced I was "changing" gender.  These stories reflect that struggle, and the struggle of serving an increasingly oppressed population.  Some passengers are saints, some are dangero... Read more

The Old Mole Variety Hour for March 5, 2018

Airs at: Mon, 03/05/2018 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for Old Mole Variety Hour
Thom Becker hosts and we hear-- Two organizers discuss plans and purposes for the International Women's Day March and Strike happening in Portland on Thursday, March 8. Bill Resnick and Joe Clement fill us in on the West Virginia Teachers' Strike and its significance. T... Read more

International Women's Day March and Strike

Airs at: Mon, 03/05/2018 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for Old Mole Variety Hour
Jan Haaken talks with Aylssa Pariah and Nykki Elizath Milano about the International Women's Day March and Strike on Thursday, March 8th in Portland. Local information here. Alyssa Pariah is an Afro-Puerto Rican trans woman from New York City and an organizer with Don’t Shoot ... Read more

Gail Noonan, the Laughing Feminist - Expanded Audio

Airs at: Thu, 02/15/2018 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for Words and Pictures
  In this extended conversation with animator Gail Noonan, S.W. Conser asks about the early artistic adventures with the Winnipeg Film Group that helped spark Gail's four-decade-long career in the world of Canadian independent film and led to her recent retrospective at Po... Read more

Denise Chanterelle DuBois author of Self Made Woman

Airs at: Tue, 03/06/2018 at 6:00pm - 7:00pm
Produced for Transpositive PDX
Please join us this Tuesday at 6pm for an in depth discussion with Portland resident Denise Chanterelle Dubois, author of Self Made Woman about her new memoir. Denise DuBois’s transformation into a woman wasn’t easy. Born as a boy into a working-class Polish American Milwa... Read more

Girls Like Me by Nina Packebush

Airs at: Mon, 03/05/2018 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for Madness Radio
  What’s it like to be a teenager in a psychiatric hospital? What is it like to be a queer pregnant teenager? Is it true that friends do make the best medicine? Nina Packebush explores these questions and more in her groundbreaking debut young adult novel, Girls Like Me. N... Read more

Candy Brings Plenty

Airs at: Fri, 02/23/2018 at 6:00pm - 7:00pm
Produced for Bread and Roses
An interview by host Leidi Monte with local indigenous rights activist, Candi Brings Plenty. Candi organizes for the Two Spirit Nation, a term to represent queer-identified people from the Native community. Last month, she orchestrated Portland’s first ever indigenous womxn... Read more

GREEN JOBS & INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S STRIKE

Airs at: Mon, 02/26/2018 at 6:00pm - 6:30pm
Produced for Labor Radio
Camilo Marquez, representing the Portland Climate Action Community Benefits Initiative, will discuss this local GREEN JOBS 2018 ballot initiative which trains and employs workers from marginalized communities to weatherize and solarize homes and businesses, funded by a surc... Read more

Pinkwashing Exposed: Seattle, Portland and Toronto

Airs at: Fri, 02/23/2018 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for One Land Many Voices
Dean Spade, the Seattle-based producer of the film Pinkwashing Exposed: Seattle Fights Back, describes Pinkwashing as "A term used by activists to describe an explicit strategy taken up in recent years by the government of Israel to portray Israel as a leader in gay rights ... Read more

Heart Berries

Airs at: Thu, 02/22/2018 at 11:00am - 11:30am
Produced for Between The Covers
  Heart Berries is a powerful, poetic memoir of a woman’s coming of age on the Seabird Island Indian Reservation in the Pacific Northwest. Having survived a profoundly dysfunctional upbringing only to find herself hospitalized and facing a dual diagnosis of Post Traumatic ... Read more