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Radical Musicology: Alix Dobkin

Airs at: Mon, 04/02/2012 at 12:00am
Produced for Old Mole Variety Hour
Tom Becker talks with our radical musicologist, Brad Duncan, about Alix Dobkin. They reflect on her "red-diaper" up-bringing, her recent autobiography "My Red Blood: A Memoir of Growing Up Communist, Coming Onto the Greenwich Village Folk Scene, and Coming Out in the Femini... Read more

Adrienne Rich: Ballad of the Poverties

Airs at: Mon, 04/02/2012 at 12:00am
Produced for Old Mole Variety Hour
 In honor of the late Adrienne Rich, Frann Michel reads a poem of hers called "Ballad of the Poverties". Read more

Adrienne Rich, psychoanalytic feminism and motherhood

Airs at: Mon, 04/02/2012 at 12:00am
Produced for Old Mole Variety Hour
Joe Clement talks with fellow Mole Jan Haaken about the significance of Adrienne Rich's prose writing about motherhood for the feminist movement in the 1970s. Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour April 2nd

Airs at: Mon, 04/02/2012 at 12:00am
Produced for Old Mole Variety Hour
           Joe Clement hosts today's Old Mole. We hear about the Treyvon Martin case, Adrienne Rich's work on motherhood, a poem by Adrienne Rich, a movie review about revolutionary black workers, and a radical musicology segment about Alix Dobkins, who we hear throughout t... Read more

Queer Health and Fierceness

Airs at: Wed, 03/28/2012 at 12:00am
Produced for Out Loud
On today's show we will discuss Queer Health and Fierceness (a topic all us Queers and Allies must know). From the Center for American Progress we have Kellan Baker. With his amazing work as a health policy analyst and LGBTQ Health researcher, the CAP has been instrument... Read more

Positively Revolting on 03-23-12 War Against Women, Part 2

Airs at: Fri, 03/23/2012 at 12:00am
Produced for Positively Revolting
War Against Women, Part 2.  Host Ani with guests Theresa Mitchell and Genevieve Goffman talk about recent forays in the culture war to pass legislation against reproductive health choices, and generally attempting to "shame" women about their sexuality.  Guests:  Theresa M... Read more

Interview with Susan Stryker

Airs at: Mon, 03/26/2012 at 12:00am
 Jacob Anderson-Minshall interviews Susan Stryker (author of Transgender History and director of the Emmy winning film Screaming Queens: The Compton's Cafeteria Riots) at the Trans Studies Conference in Ontario California the first week of March, 2012.  Read more

The latest dispatches from the War on Women.

Airs at: Tue, 03/20/2012 at 12:00am
 Relax, vagina-having Americans, it's for your own good. Since taking power in statehouses across the country, not to mention the U.S. House, the GOP has wasted no time in addressing the most serious problem confronting the United States -- uppity women. Whether it's by wa... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour March 19th 2012

Airs at: Mon, 03/19/2012 at 12:00am
Produced for Old Mole Variety Hour
     Tom Becker hosts this Old Mole Variety Hour and we hear: Bill Resnick talks with local healthcare activist and worker at Sisters of the Road Michael Moore about Governor Kitzhaber's recently enacted healthcare plan. Tom Becker reads an article about how the B... Read more

Well-read Red: 15 Ways the Bible is Used to Control and Malign Women

Airs at: Mon, 03/19/2012 at 12:00am
Produced for Old Mole Variety Hour
Tom Becker reads Valerie Tarico's Alter-Net article "15 Ways the Bible is Used by Christians and the GOP to Control and Malign Women". Tarico examines over a dozen ways that the Bible subtends a misogynistic and patriarchical rationale that conservatives are using to fuel a... Read more