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Racist Sandwich

FOOD x RACE x GENDER x CLASS What is it like to be a chef of color cooking in America’s whitest major city? Chef Soleil Ho and journalist Zahir Janmohamed tackle this question and many more in their bi-weekly podcast from Portland, Oregon that examines the intersection b... Read more

Bread and Roses

Airs at: Fri, 06/17/2016 at 6:00pm - 7:00pm
Bomb Ass Pussy joins the Bread and Roses conversation; they are transplants from Los Angeles, transplants from drag, transplants from another planet of fierce queer creatures- the trioBomb Ass Pussy tells stories of queer identity and celebration through hip hop. Their musi... Read more

Talking Pride: Portland Trans Unity, Black Pride, & Two Spirit Society

Airs at: Tue, 06/14/2016 at 6:00pm - 7:00pm
Produced for:  Preference
Talking Pride! in the face of hate, violence, and terror, we'll be talking with folks who are celebrating community, resistance, visibility, and love.  We'll hear first from sometimes-Portlander amira caluya, who is program co-director at stonewall youth, in olympia washing... Read more

Only in America: Violence from Stanford to Orlando

Airs at: Mon, 06/13/2016 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Frann Michel comments on America's culture of violence, and in particular how it led to the Stanford Rape case of Brock Turner and the recent mass shooting in an Orlando Florida gay nightclub:   I had been planning to talk about the Stanford rape case—you know, the one i... Read more

Prince Vs. Bowie Memorial Bike Ride

KBOO Community Radio is a proud Co-Sponsor of the Prince & David Bowie Memorial Bike Ride on Sat. June 11th @ 7pm   Come celebrate the lives & music of these INCREDIBLE icons as we pedal and dance the night away! "We don't cry because we knew them, we cry because they hel... Read more

Seeing Red by Lina Meruane

Airs at: Thu, 06/30/2016 at 11:00am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Between The Covers
  In Lina Meruane's Seeing Red, fiction and autobiography intertwine.  An intense, visceral novel about the relation between the body, illness, and human relationship by one of Chile’s brightest young authors.  “Lina Meruane’s prose has great literary force: it emerges fro... Read more

Wendy Doniger, Redeeming the Kamasutra

Airs at: Sat, 05/14/2016 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Progressive Spirit
The Kamasutra brings to mind (and to Google searches) erotic and exotic sexual positions.   OK, it is that.  But it is much more.  It is about the art of living.   Wendy Doniger, Mircea Eliade Distinguished Service Professor of the History of Religions at the University of ... Read more

The Old Mole Variety Hour for April 25, 2016

Airs at: Mon, 04/25/2016 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
  Bill Resnick talks with Steve Bloom about poetry and the 99%    Book Mole Larry Bowlden reviews Kristy Woodson Harvey’s  Lies and Other Acts of Love.   Denise Morris revisits the 1960 documentary film Primary in light of current campaigning and reporting   we're on ... Read more

Book Mole: Lies and Other Acts of Love

Airs at: Mon, 04/25/2016 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
  Is the complete, unvarnished truth always essential to happy/successful partnerships and families, or do small omissions and/or white lies sometimes play an essential role in even the best of families?  This and other questions are taken up in Kristy Woodson Harvey’s lig... Read more

Ways To Disappear by Idra Novey

Airs at: Thu, 05/05/2016 at 11:00am - 11:30pm
Produced for:  Between The Covers
  Deep in gambling debt, the celebrated Brazilian writer Beatriz Yagoda is last seen holding a suitcase and a cigar and climbing into an almond tree. She abruptly vanishes. In snowy Pittsburgh, her American translator Emma hears the news and, against the wishes of her boyf... Read more