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'Sissy' as in Sister
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: MinneCulture In-Depth
Caption: A meeting at A Woman's Coffee House, Credit: Janet Dahlem
In the 1970s and 1980s, feminists redefined what it meant to be a woman in the United States. These activists didn’t always agree on how to reach t...

  • Added: Apr 04, 2024
  • Length: 46:02
Retrieved [A Women's History Month Special]: Egg Donors Share Their Stories
From: Embodied
Series: Embodied - Specials
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Egg donation in the U.S. is a multibillion dollar industry designed to provide infertile folks with the eggs they need to conceive. But how do we d...

Bought by KRVS, WGUC/ WVXU, Oregon Public Broadcasting, WILL, KGOU and more


  • Added: Mar 11, 2024
  • Length: 58:23
  • Purchases: 12
25 years since Matthew Shepard: Where are we now?
From: Out in the Bay - Queer Radio from San Francisco
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Where are we with LGBTQ+ civil rights and safety since Matthew Shepard's brutal 1998 murder? How can we curtail ongoing hate-based violence? The Ma...

Bought by KAZU Seaside, Calif., Oregon Public Broadcasting, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KZYX, KUOW and more


  • Added: Oct 26, 2023
  • Length: 53:31
  • Purchases: 9
2023-09-24 What Is Masculinity?
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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Ideals of manhood differ across times and cultures—why think there’s any one thing it means to be a man?

Bought by KJZZ, WVTF, KTSW 89.9, KUOW, KICI Iowa City and more


  • Added: Sep 25, 2023
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 18
StoryCorps: Stephen Quandt
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
Caption: Stephen Quandt at the Clean Futures Fund clinic in Slavutych, Ukraine--a city built for those evacuated after the nuclear power plant disaster--in June of 2019., Credit: Photo courtesy of Stephen Quandt
Stephen Quandt remembers a 2019 animal rescue trip to Ukraine and the site of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster.

  • Added: Jul 31, 2023
  • Length: 02:51
In Good Faith - Lon Young & Meghan Decker
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: In Good Faith
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Seemingly intense dichotomies of belief might share greater connection than we initially perceive.

Bought by RadioStPete Florida and WYAP


  • Added: Jun 28, 2023
  • Length: 52:50
  • Purchases: 2
The Untold Story of Pride Month with Seal Dwyer
From: KVSC
Series: Untold Stories of Central Minnesota
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In today’s Untold Story of Central Minnesota, Arts & Cultural Heritage Producer Jeff Carmack wraps up Pride Month by having a poignant discussion w...

  • Added: Jun 27, 2023
  • Length: 27:28
2325: What is Gender?, 6/20/2023
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk: Weekly
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Is Gender an oppressive system that sorts people into pink and blue boxes, or is it a critical part of people’s identities?

  • Added: Jun 12, 2023
  • Length: 53:59
If You Knew All I Could Tell You
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: MinneCulture Podcast
Caption: Rose Cleveland and Evangeline Whipple, Credit: https://www.masshist.org/collection-guides/view/fap033
Archives tell an important story. The people in them—and the people left out—say a lot about our politics, culture, and consciousness. Today, resea...

  • Added: Apr 13, 2023
  • Length: 17:12
Becoming Claire
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: 10,000 Fresh Voices
Caption: Claire Zach performing with their band Wet Denim behind the Weinery in Minneapolis, Credit: Cyn Collins
Art can be an expression of many elements of the self. So what happens when your sense of self is evolving or fluid? That’s something that local ar...

  • Added: Apr 12, 2023
  • Length: 07:39
The Untold Story of QUEERSPACE Collective Coming to St. Cloud
From: KVSC
Series: Untold Stories of Central Minnesota
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In today’s Untold Story of Central Minnesota, Arts & Cultural Heritage Producer Jeff Carmack talks with Nicki Hangsleben and Mandy Rubink from QUEE...

  • Added: Mar 21, 2023
  • Length: 28:26
The Anti-Trans Hate Machine: Resistance, Money, and the Struggle for Trans Rights
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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2022 will go down in history for the number of anti-trans bills introduced into state legislatures. Over 300 bills banning books, medical treatment...

Bought by KWMR, Radio Catskill, RadioFreePalmer, KDNK, and WNYE


  • Added: Mar 08, 2023
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 5
How many ways can we ‘Spell Heaven’?
From: Out in the Bay - Queer Radio from San Francisco
Caption: Pacifica Municipal Pier, Credit: Toni Mirosevich
How do we find human connection? Being “in with the out crowd?" Author and poet Toni Mirosevich finds peers on the pier. She reads from her latest ...

Bought by WORT


  • Added: Oct 04, 2022
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 1
Considering the context of statistics about LGBTQ youth
From: Media for the Public Good, Inc. - OutCasting Media
Series: OutCasting Overtime
Caption: OutCasting youth broadcaster Isha
Statistics show that LGBTQ youth are at greatly increased risk of self-harm. But statistics are just numbers; what’s the real-world human cost?

Bought by KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Aug 31, 2022
  • Length: 06:21
  • Purchases: 1
Forget Everything You Know About Texas
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Red, Republican, anti abortion, anti trans — Texas has certainly been a testing ground for backlash policies and politicians, and that could be wha...

Bought by WGBH Radio Boston, KWMR, RadioFreePalmer, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, KDNK and more


  • Added: Apr 13, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 7
Their name was Pauli Murray
From: Out in the Bay - Queer Radio from San Francisco
Caption: Pauli Murray circa 1931, age 21, Credit: Courtesy of Amazon Studios
Pauli Murray was a 20th century Black Queer civil rights trailblazer and legal scholar you’ve probably never heard of. On this edition of Out in th...

Bought by KALW, KVSC, KUT, and WORT


  • Added: Jan 31, 2022
  • Length: 29:30
  • Purchases: 4
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
Meet the USA’s first transgender bishop
From: Out in the Bay - Queer Radio from San Francisco
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Reverend Dr. Megan Rohrer has made LGBTQ and religious history as the first openly transgender bishop in a major Christian denomination. Rohrer spo...

Bought by KVSC


  • Added: Nov 11, 2021
  • Length: 29:30
  • Purchases: 1
The Untold Story of Detroit Pistons Team Psychologist Corey Yeager and the Smithsonian Exhibit "The Bias Inside Us"
From: KVSC
Series: Untold Stories of Central Minnesota
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In today’s Untold Story of Central Minnesota, Arts & Cultural Heritage Producer Jeff Carmack talks with visiting lecturer Dr. Corey Yeager, Team Ps...

  • Added: Sep 03, 2021
  • Length: 30:00
S. A. Cosby discusses "Razorblade Tears"
From: Steven Nester
Series: Poets of the Tabloid Murder
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S. A. Cosby is a novelist who lives in Virginia.

  • Added: Aug 12, 2021
  • Length: 13:15
Pride Grand Marshal Twins Encourage ‘Tough Conversations’
From: Out in the Bay - Queer Radio from San Francisco
Caption: The Green twins at the African American Art & Culture Complex’s Open Air Gallery in San Francisco, Credit: Janice Lee
“We are here for the tough conversations,” says Melorra Green, speaking for herself and sister Melonie Green. On this week’s Out in the Bay, the tw...

  • Added: Jun 22, 2021
  • Length: 29:29
Laverne Cox, Sam Feder: Trans Lives Depend on Owning Our Stories
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Trans liberation is the latest frontline in the struggle for civil rights. In their new documentary, Disclosure, director Sam Feder and producer Am...

Bought by WORT, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, RadioFreePalmer, KDNK, and KWMR


  • Added: Jun 09, 2021
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 5
The Write Question - Rebecca Salazar
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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Canadian Poet Rebecca Salazar talks about her new collection, "Sulphurtongue."

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio, Spokane Public Radio, KWMR, WCNY, Spokane Public Radio and more


  • Added: May 20, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 7
RDD: A Local Activist
From: WGTE Public Media
Series: The Rough Draft Diaries with Haley Taylor
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Brittanie Kuhr serves as the Executive Director of Institutional Advancement at Defiance College, but for this interview on The Rough Draft Diaries...

  • Added: Mar 09, 2021
  • Length: 06:17
Valentine's Day-inspired apologies 2021
From: Brett de Hoedt
Series: The Hardest Word
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Seven people - from Serbia, Pakistan, India, England, USA, South Africa and the Philipines - apologize to former lovers in honor of Valentine's Day...

  • Added: Feb 12, 2021
  • Length: 19:20